Nigel Teles­ford

So­cial me­dia sen­sa­tion Kai Ce­nat (Kailen Car­lo Ce­nat III) is set to fi­nal­ly make it to T&T lat­er this month, af­ter de­clar­ing on his live stream with Ja­maican Dance­hall King Vy­bz Kar­tel (Adid­jah Palmer) last week that he would ac­com­pa­ny him.

Kar­tel will head­line the One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val set for May 31 at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah in Port-of-Spain.

Ce­nat had pre­vi­ous­ly stat­ed his in­ten­tion to ac­com­pa­ny Tri­ni-born rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj to T&T for Car­ni­val 2025, but when her plans changed, so did his and nei­ther of them at­tend­ed in March.

Ce­nat, whose moth­er is a T&T na­tion­al, is the third most-fol­lowed Twitch stream­er with 17 mil­lion fol­low­ers. He is al­so the most-sub­scribed Twitch stream­er. His live streams have host­ed celebri­ty guests like Chris Brown, Kevin Hart, Nic­ki Mi­naj, Off­set and oth­ers.

Re­cent­ly, Kar­tel ap­peared on Ce­nat’s plat­form along with fe­male dance­hall artiste Spice and caused quite a stir on the in­ter­net at­tract­ing more than 100,000 view­ers.

Dur­ing the laid-back in­ter­ac­tion, Kar­tel told Ce­nat he would be per­form­ing in T&T this month.

In re­sponse, Ce­nat de­clared, “I’m lock­ing it in right now. On May 31, I am go­ing to Trinidad and we gon’ go to a show and we gon’ turn up.

“Every­body in Trinidad—be there. That is go­ing to be a mon­u­men­tal day!”

While Ce­nat has been fa­mil­iar with T&T cul­ture from birth and has de­clared his af­fil­i­a­tion dur­ing his livestreams, he has not yet brought his celebri­ty to the coun­try.

Last year flew to Ja­maica to ex­pe­ri­ence that coun­try’s Car­ni­val and did a few live streams from Kingston. This year, he stat­ed his in­ten­tion to come for Trinidad Car­ni­val and his moth­er, Tr­isha, did vis­it but Ce­nat did not make the trip.

In a so­cial me­dia post with her son, ‘Ma­ma Ce­nat’ said while she knows he has an affin­i­ty to reg­gae and dance­hall mu­sic, there is a new gen­er­a­tion of so­ca artistes he should check out.

“We have La­dy La­va and we have Trinidad Kil­la fea­tur­ing Nic­ki Mi­naj and then we have the zessers and ‘dem.” she said. “So I just want to let you know that I need you to come to Trinidad and To­ba­go and wit­ness the great­est show on earth, and I just want to say, Trinidad and To­ba­go, he love yuh.”

On March 11, Ce­nat won Stream­er of the Year at the 2023 Stream­er Awards and al­so ap­peared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 20 Most In­flu­en­tial Cre­ators in 2023.

On De­cem­ber 14, Nic­ki Mi­naj ap­peared on Ce­nat’s livestream which broke his pre­vi­ous peak view­er­ship record by 40,000 re­sult­ing in 348,593 con­cur­rent view­ers.

On Feb­ru­ary 8, dur­ing a livestream, Ce­nat an­nounced that he has of­fi­cial­ly part­nered with Nike stat­ing: “I would like to an­nounce that we are of­fi­cial­ly a part of the Nike fam­i­ly.”

He be­came the first stream­er to get signed with the com­pa­ny.

On Feb­ru­ary 17, Ce­nat won Stream­er of the Year again and the Best Just Chat­ting Stream­er. He was al­so nom­i­nat­ed for Best Streamed Event.

Vy­bz Kar­tel joins an ac­claimed cast of en­ter­tain­ers, in­clud­ing Siz­zla Kolan­ji, Mol­ly, Maaya, Preedy, KMC and oth­ers set to per­form at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah for the much-an­tic­i­pat­ed One Caribbean Uni­ty Mu­sic Fes­ti­val.

Yes­ter­day the fes­ti­val or­gan­is­ers host­ed an of­fi­cial launch par­ty for spe­cial­ly-in­vit­ed guests, the me­dia and spon­sors at the An­gos­tu­ra VIP Suite, Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair.