Famalay has of­fi­cial­ly been de­clared as the 2019 Road March.

The song, a col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween Machel Mon­tano, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous and Bun­ji Gar­lin, played 346 times.

De­spite the be­lief among rev­ellers that the Road race may be close, it played over 100 times more than Kees Di­ef­fen­thaller's Sa­van­nah Grass, which was played 207.

Gar­lin, who stat­ed in his 2004 So­ca Monarch win­ning song 'War­rior Cry' that "He would nev­er win a road march" took to so­cial me­dia to post his thoughts on the win.

He said, "As I cel­e­brate 20 years ex­is­tence in so­ca I would like to thank God for all that time and all that I’ve ex­pe­ri­enced in it. I thank him for the peo­ple that have been met along the way. I would like to con­grat­u­late my broth­ers Machel Mon­tano, Skin­ny Fab­u­lous on such a pow­er­ful piece of ma­te­r­i­al that made peo­ple just come to­geth­er in un­be­liev­able ways and of course on the Road March win!!!"

Gar­lin, whose re­al name is Ian Al­varez al­so thanked his wife Fay Ann Lyons-Al­varez for en­cour­ag­ing him to do the track.

He said, "Thank you Fay Ann Lyons for en­cour­ag­ing me to do the song when it came and the words were ‘do it be­cause you like it and not for a look, let it mean some­thing to peo­ple or leave it alone’ and we pro­ceed­ed and every­one won."

The win is al­so his­toric in that Skin­ny Fab­u­lous, re­al name Gamal Doyle has be­come the first non-Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zen to win the Road March.

It is Machel Mon­tano's 10th Road March, and his third which in­volved a col­lab­o­ra­tion af­ter 2006's 'Band of the Year" with Patrice Roberts and last year's "So­ca King­dom" with Su­perblue.

The win ties Mon­tano with Su­perblue for the sec­ond most Road March wins.

The Lord Kitch­en­er has the most wins with 11.