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Sally Elwin launches her new album "Crazy For You". The beautiful singer married to K.K Elwin, (a singer writer in his own right) is fast becoming a house hold name in the singing arena in St.Lucia with performances at the Manhattans Show February 11th at the Pigeon Island Side lawn and as one person put it "Sally Elwin was the Show". She has also made appearances at Miss independence Pagaent 2006, and will also perform at the "National Call to action Show held by Cricket world Cup St.Lucia featuring other St.Lucian artistes and the "Rally" man himself David Rudder on February 26th 2006. The Album Crazy For You features hits such as "Free Up Yourself" and I'll be okay" among other songs. We will definitely be keeping our eyes on this Caribbean artiste, Sally Elwin.

A list of Barbadian artistes are nominees for for the 13th Annual Reggae Soca Awards to take place at the Broward Centre for Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on 27th May 2006. The list includes Edwin Yearwood nominated for 3 awards in the category of Soca Combination, Soca Male and Soca Album. Gaining 2 nominations each are Alison Hinds for Soca Female and Soca Song, Rupee for Soca Male and Soca Group, Mr. DJ for Soca New Artiste and Soca Song and Rihanna for Reggae Song of the Year and Reggae New Artiste.

It was a surprise to many when the results were read. The reaction of the majority upon the announcement that Shurwayne Winchester had won over Bunji Garlin to capture the 2006 International Soca Monarch title. Even before the anouncement had ended the crowd began to call for Bunji Garlin. Fortunately, there was no violence.

Shurwayne Winchester beat Bunji Garlin by just two points to capture the near one-million-dollar first prize. He sang "Ah Cyah Wait" at Friday's final of the competition, which took place at the Hasley Crawford National Stadium. Shurwayne Winchester earned 270 points, while Bunji Garlin was awarded 268 points for his performance of "Bomb Song". Iwer George who scored 266 points for his rendition of "We Reach" came in third.

Jamaica - Dancehall Tries on Techno source: Jamaica Gleaner

The Craze of wanting to send dancehall music abroad by any means has resulted in local artistes and producers using various rhythms for original versions as well as remixes. The most recent is techno.

After Fantan Mojah released the Fire Child song Motomtoto, which means 'Fire Child' in Swahili, in September 2005, it was remixed on a techno rhythm. It was the first in recent times that a new producer has undertaken such a project. The song, which was produced by Ra-umi Alkebu-lan on his MWASI label, says:

"First and foremost, I'm a businessman. I'm not the in-the-box producer and when I looked around in the world and the various genres and what is really selling out there, I realised that the techno market was very lucrative, hence, we did the techno mix," Alkebu-lan said. Techno is energy music, therefore, appropriate for many Jamaican artistes, and Alkebu-lan was convinced that rhythm and artistes would gel.