Kes’ (Kees Diefenthaller) 2025 Carnival release, “Cocoa Tea”, is sweetening music charts across the globe. The band’s first release for Carnival 2025, “Cocoa Tea” has topped the US iTunes Reggae chart and several streaming platforms, charts and playlists in countries all around the region, in the UK and the USA.
Written by Kes, hit-making producer Michael “Tano” Montano and reigning Trinidad and Tobago Road March King/songwriter Mical Teja (Mical Williams), the song was released on November 15, just before the Kes The Band (KTB) brothers from South Trinidad embarked on their third annual US East Coast tour. The track features backing vocals from Tano, rising star Denzil “Coutain” and former national calypso monarch (2020) Terri Lyons.
As the tour rocked packed venues in Montreal, Canada; and Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Silver Springs, Maryland; Norfolk, Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia, in the US, from November 24 to December 5, the lyric video for the song on the band’s YouTube channel skyrocketed to one million views in the first two weeks as the song got added to thousands of streaming playlists. Read More
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