Ca­lyp­so Rose (Lin­da Mc­Cartha Mon­i­ca Sandy-Lewis) vowed to fight to bring hap­pi­ness to abused women as she ac­cept­ed a French Na­tion­al Award yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing af­ter ac­cept­ing the Of­fi­cer of Arts and Hu­man­i­ties medal at the French em­bassy in Port-of-Spain, the Ca­lyp­so Queen said: “There are so many abus­es go­ing around the world to­day by the men abus­ing all the women that I have to stand up to fight, to fight, to fight and say ‘oui oui’ to fight to bring hap­pi­ness to them.”

Since the year be­gan, con­cern has been voiced by many lo­cal groups about the num­ber of women los­ing their lives to do­mes­tic vi­o­lence.

Re­cent­ly, the na­tion was shak­en when Naiee Singh, 31 was shot and killed out­side her Cou­va work­place by her hus­band Roger Singh, 32 be­fore he turned the gun on him­self, end­ing his own life.

The award is Ca­lyp­so Rose’s third from the French.

Three years ago she took home the tro­phy for Best World Mu­sic Al­bum for her “Far From Home” al­bum at the Vic­toires de la Musique - the French equiv­a­lent to a Gram­my Award.

In 2018, she was award­ed the French As­so­ci­a­tion of Song­writ­ers, Com­posers and Mu­sic Pub­lish­ers grand prize in the World Mu­sic cat­e­go­ry.

There are some 29 oth­er en­ter­tain­ers around the world who re­ceived the ac­co­lade in­clud­ing Be­y­once Knowles, her hus­band Jay-Z, An­geli­na Jolie, Na­tal­ie Port­man and Joaquin Pheonix.

French Am­bas­sador Serge Lavroff cred­it­ed the Ca­lyp­so Queen as the icon re­spon­si­ble for the pop­u­lar­i­ty of So­ca and Ca­lyp­so mu­sic in France.

“Her fans are count­less, her name sounds fa­mil­iar every­where to every­one- to any­one in Paris and far be­yond,” he said be­fore pre­sent­ing her with the award.

He told Guardian Me­dia her songs such as “Leave Me Alone” and “Far From Home” were es­pe­cial­ly pop­u­lar.

Last year Ca­lyp­so Rose made his­to­ry and waves in in­ter­na­tion­al me­dia as she be­came the old­est per­former at the Coachel­la mu­sic fes­ti­val.