The following artistes have been selected from the Ragga Soca & Soca Monarch preliminaries held on Monday 26th June to compete in the finals which is scheduled for Friday 7th July and Saturday 8th July 2023 respectively at the Victoria Park commencing at 9:00 pm. They are:
Ragga Soca Category
Hance John – Bruk out
Javid ‘Jay-R’ Rouse – Love of Carnival
Omarion ‘Marlo Benn’ Benn – Jam Again
Ozarie Matthews – Pastor Choking the Bishop
Nasir ‘Nasos’ Primus – Dirty Mas
Ramon ‘Jose Juan’ Diaz – Until ah wet
Jasper ‘Jasper YMC’ Alexander – Festival
Denis Bowman – Tink butt easy
Gregory ‘Pekos’ Cato – Poor Keyboard
Shaunelle McKenzie – Doh Study Meh
McGaffrey ‘Loombay’ Medford, Jesse ‘Fligh’ Haynes & Brendon ‘Mac-I’ Saunders – Wasted
Rayvonne ‘Reva’ Rodney – Zess No Stress
Soca Monarch Category
Kemmy Christopher – Spirit of Carnival
Keneil ‘Dose up’ Alexander – Butt
Omarion ‘Marlo Benn’ Benn – Horn me
Shorn ‘Shorn Beats’ Nimblet, Kelvin ‘Double R’ Wilson & Enrique Marshall – Good Energy
Kahm ‘Fligh’ Haynes – Farmer
Keith Currency – Rum over people
Zimbory ‘Ghaza’ Joseph – Carnival
Kertis ‘Gully’ Marshall – Why de cat in the rain
Javid ‘Jay-R’ Rouse – Wild
Esron ‘Esron Spielbery – Headways
Samantha Bryant & Nadine Bryant (Sun Divas) – Sick wuk
Alpha ‘Stinger Nettle’ Allick – Bring yo catt in the road
Ishatta ‘Shatta’ Da Silva – Long fi see town
Kelvin ‘Killy’ Wilson – In Dey