KRISTY RAM­NAR­INE

So­ca artiste Shur­wayne Win­ches­ter launched his new song ‘Bac­cha­nal Come’ dur­ing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Guardian’s 105th An­niver­sary staff event at Guardian Me­dia Car Park on Sep­tem­ber 2.

The col­lab­o­ra­tion, which fea­tures King David Rud­der, was re­leased on the air­waves ear­li­er in the day. It is fea­tured on the Her­itage Rid­dim, pro­duced by Nigel Lewis and Prestan Wal­lace.

Win­ches­ter had Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed staff mov­ing to sev­er­al of his hits, in­clud­ing Girl Born To Wine, be­fore teach­ing the cho­rus of his new re­lease, Bac­cha­nal Come.

The so­ca artiste, who was the first to win both the In­ter­na­tion­al Groovy So­ca and In­ter­na­tion­al Pow­er So­ca Monarch back in 2006, said he saw the op­por­tu­ni­ty to col­lab­o­rate with Rud­der as a tremen­dous one.

“This col­lab­o­ra­tion is re­al­ly mean­ing­ful to me. Both David Rud­der and I were man­aged by the late un­cle El­lis Chow Lin On,” said Win­ches­ter.

“As artistes, our goal is al­ways to sat­is­fy the long­ing for good, sweet mu­sic, by the peo­ple. No­body can de­ny that David Rud­der has per­fect­ed that.”

LEFT: Guardian Media’s managing director Dr Karrian Hepburn Malcolm with head of operations Anthony Seegobin and CFO Gerhard Pettier during the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian’s 105th anniversary staff event.

The en­ter­tain­er, who has re­leased two sin­gles in 2022, is push­ing in­to 2023 with vigour.

“There’s a lot to come, but my fo­cus at this time is on en­sur­ing that I pay homage to this artiste who I’m so proud to fi­nal­ly work with,” he said.

“My on­ly hope is that I’m able to hit stages across T&T, re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, with him, so that the peo­ple can re­al­ly get to feel the mu­sic, deep down in their souls.”

Win­ches­ter is booked to per­form at a se­ries of events for the up­com­ing To­ba­go Car­ni­val, the first of which is the launch of Bago Car­ni­val on Sep­tem­ber 10. His re­cent re­lease, ‘To Be ‘Gon­ian’ on the Scar­bor­ough Rid­dim, is now be­ing dubbed the an­them for the is­land’s fes­ti­val.

Ear­li­er in the night, so­ca artiste Snakey start­ed the en­ter­tain­ment rolling at the Guardian Me­dia Lim­it­ed event.

He was fol­lowed by so­ca/ca­lyp­so new­com­er J Kwene “The Peo­ple Daugh­ter,” who is cur­rent­ly work­ing on the re­lease of a 12-track al­bum.

So­ca artistes Dev and Saky al­so added to the night’s cel­e­bra­to­ry mood.