Cham­pi­on! Cham­pi­on! Cham­pi­on!

The words rang out loud here in Paris on Tues­day night. The New Zealand women’s rug­by team had just won the gold medal in the rug­by sev­ens grand fi­nal de­feat­ing Cana­da 19-12 and with their medals in their hands or around their necks, they were blast­ing T&T’s Dwayne Bra­vo's al­ready world-fa­mous song - Cham­pi­on - which was re­leased dur­ing the West In­dies men’s and women’s suc­cess­ful run to win their re­spec­tive T20 Crick­et World Cup in 2016.

"It came as a sur­prise to me in terms of ob­vi­ous­ly, New Zealand women’s rug­by team, it is not like it is a men’s team or some­thing like that but a lot of peo­ple start­ed shar­ing it. I woke up in the morn­ing and like what it is this …so much mes­sages on my phone," Bra­vo told Guardian Me­dia Sports.

"I just re­flect­ed on the im­pact this song has world­wide and what it has done over the years. I re­leased that song in 2016 and it still sounds like fair­ly new. It still has that joy­ful feel­ing that cham­pi­on feel­ing in peo­ple and that is what this song was writ­ten about,” added Bra­vo.

Asked if he knew some­one from the women’s rug­by team, a smil­ing Bra­vo said, "I don’t even know one per­son. I like how they were very cre­ative and they were call­ing even their own play­ers names whether it is Mol­lie is a cham­pi­on; So­phie is a cham­pi­on, so it was like re­al­ly, re­al­ly cre­ative, re­al­ly nice. They post­ed it up, I shared it on my so­cial me­dia page and I con­grat­u­lat­ed them as well. It is a song that will live on for­ev­er.

"So many peo­ple send me videos all over whether it is in Ja­maica, St Lu­cia, from schools in the UK and now this is the Olympics, you can’t get big­ger than this, apart from a foot­ball World Cup, I am just hap­py that this song lives on and con­tin­ues to bring joy to peo­ple across the world, " said Bra­vo.

On the suc­cess of this song which has over 20 mil­lion views on YouTube: "Well I nev­er imag­ined this to be hon­est. I ac­tu­al­ly wrote this song in 2015 and re­leased it in 2016 so how I do mu­sic is for my per­son­al joy, for fun and to try to get peo­ple to be their own cham­pi­ons and in­spire peo­ple, I nev­er ex­pect­ed it to reach where it has reached now."

Bra­vo has been a suc­cess­ful mem­ber of the Chen­nai Su­per Kings in the In­di­an Pre­mier League and their head coach is for­mer New Zealand cap­tain Stephen Flem­ming.

Bra­vo told Guardian Me­dia, "I ac­tu­al­ly send it to Stephen Flem­ming when I saw it, he is from New Zealand and he al­ways gives me a hard time (laugh­ing ) so when I sent it to him, he went - Damn mate you've gone glob­al.

"We all have our own in­ner cham­pi­ons. Just two days ago, I had some youths in my pro­duc­tion stu­dio here in Trinidad, they are all un­der the age of 18. They are all on the cre­ative side of things from dancers to beat­ing pan and my mes­sage to them, 'I’d be your own self', be hon­est with your­self and ful­fil your dreams and don’t let any­one tell you can­not achieve it.

Bra­vo added he told the young­sters, "This build­ing you are sit­ting in now this come from mu­sic and a lot of peo­ple doubt­ed me, where mu­sic is con­cerned, it is not about what some­one thinks about you but more what you think about your­self, how you view your­self and each per­son has that giv­en tal­ent and that hid­den cham­pi­on with­in them.

" So you just have to go out there whether you are an ath­lete or a busi­ness­man or mu­si­cian just go out there and give your 100 per cent and again this song cham­pi­on will live on for­ev­er, 15 years down the road, 20 years down the road, it will may prob­a­bly play at every sport­ing event, every cham­pi­onship mo­ments so I am just hap­py, I cre­at­ed a song that will be a leg­endary song for peo­ple in the mak­ing,” said Bra­vo.