Nine times calypso monarch of Dominica, Dennison “Dice” Joseph says he was “comfortable” with the topics given to him to compete in the 2019 calypso competition. His first song “Granmama” spoke about dictators in the Caribbean and that Dominica is under a dictatorship. He called on citizens to go back to the seventies where protest action was the order of the day.
His second song “Jumbee Money” dealt with the amount of money now being distributed by a political party and its operatives….”I rather be brooks and free, than have plenty money and owning the jumbee.”
“The topics was nice, my material was on me early, people say that Pat (Aaron) gives me what he wants, no I have my own mind and
He dismissed suggestions that he was looking forward to winning a ninth title. “I went in that competition on a mission…delivering and executing properly and achieving something from it. Now that I have made it nine times it feels nice,” he said.
According the Dice, calypso is the only genre of music that speaks about governmental things and that of the nation so the people’s voice is through “calypso,” “It must have politicians and the people who will say if I put this guy in my shop and he not running it properly, then you take him out and put someone else because the shop belongs to you, the people,” Dice said.
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