Trinidad’s KES the Band might be wotless, but they’re also on top of the soca world. Carnival is winding down in Trinidad and Tobago right now and that means the yearly Soca Monarch competition. Okay, so Trinidad’s KES the Band didn’t win the top honor. That went to Machel Montano in the power competition and his jet-fueled song “Advantage.”
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KES the Band has the grooviest soca. Photo: myspace.com
For double-time soca insanity Montano is pretty hard to beat. But he and the Dieffenthaller brothers of KES the Band weren’t directly competing anyway. KES the Band was going for the Groovy Soca title, which was just about handed over to them on the strength of their performance and their party anthem “Wotless.”
Groovy soca is more melodic and laid back — though by the time the bounding chorus to “Wotless” comes around it’s only marginally more chill than any other kind.
