Kevon Felmine

Mr Fete again showed why he is hailed by many as the King of So­ca around the world with an ec­sta­t­ic per­for­mance on the morn­ing of Jan­u­ary 15, in San Fer­nan­do. In a packed crowd at Il­lu­sion's Black to Blue Break­fast Cool­er Par­ty at Twin Walls, La Ro­maine, Machel Mon­tano sent par­ty­holics crazy with vi­brant and en­er­getic per­for­mances. Us­ing con­no­ta­tive lan­guage, MM de­clared his su­prema­cy over his clos­est ri­val at last year's Pow­er So­ca Monarch com­pe­ti­tion, hint­ing that that artiste's style was lim­it­ed. Even be­fore Machel ar­rived at the venue, the mere ut­ter­ance of his name had pa­trons chant­i­ng.

"Machel, Machel!" As he made his en­trance on­to the stage short­ly af­ter 3 am, the blis­ter­ing sound of women scream­ing erupt­ed like a vol­cano. Machel's first tune- We Rev­el­ing-sent the crowd wild, with some jump­ing on cool­ers, climb­ing fences and run­ning through the par­ty are­na. Caus­ing an even more fes­tive time, the en­er­getic win­ing per­former belt­ed out Mr Fete and had women ro­tat­ing their waist­lines. Boast­ing of his fit­ness, Machel re­moved his T-shirt and en­gaged in a heat­ed win­ing ses­sion with a mem­ber of the au­di­ence, while stand­ing on a line of speak­er box­es. Af­ter his hour-long per­for­mance, fans kept call­ing out for more.

Al­so keep­ing the crowd ex­cit­ed, Swap­pi and his duo of mind-bog­gling dancers added heat to the show with some sen­su­al dances. Per­form­ing his 2012 hit sin­gle, Bub­ble on a DJ, some pa­trons were even seen win­ing on the speak­er box­es. Swap­pi al­so had a few spe­cial­ties in the bag and the crowds roared in ex­cite­ment when he per­formed Nah Go Play and danced along with his full-fig­ured dancer. Swap­pi's per­for­mance and dances, es­pe­cial­ly to his song Come and Blow My Flute, showed he was ready to rum­ble with the big guns in the so­ca in­dus­try. The con­cept of the event Black to Blue refers to pa­trons par­ty­ing from the black of the night in­to the blue of the morn­ing. Break­fast was served at 4 am. How­ev­er, at 7 am, many pa­trons were still re­luc­tant to end the fun.