WIN OR LOSE in the national calypso competition on February 11 at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, Dillon Thomas has already created history: he’s the first Tobago monarch to gain automatic entry into the final of the event.
Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) president Ainsley King said at a prize-giving in Tobago on December 1, 2022, that the body was examining the possibility of allowing the winner of Tobago’s October carnival calypso monarch competition to qualify automatically for the national finals.
Now that the plan has been approved, Thomas, 31, said he is ready to perform against some of the heavyweights in the calypso fraternity.
“That is very exciting for me. I hope that when I go in, I can do something good and make a good name for the people in Tobago, and give them a good introduction. That would be a great start,” he told Sunday Newsday. Read More
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