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International Groovy Soca Monarch champion. She created history (again) when she won the International Soca Monarch for the first time in 2009, as the first female to win the Power category, and the first individual (male or female) to win the Power, Groovy and People's Choice awards on Fantastic
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led by Naya George. Fay-Ann became a front-liner for the band
Invazion and performed with them at many fete/concert events including the infamous 'Brass Festival' (now defunct) which was an annual event during the pre-Carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago featuring a musical 'battle' between the
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Friday) during the finals of the competition which is held annually in
Trinidad. She also went on to win the Carnival Road March that year, becoming the first soca artist to win that soca 'triplet' of titles. She is the first (and only) woman to accomplish that feat while pregnant. Fay-Ann is the
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with "Display" and 5 years later she won it again in 2008 with " Get On " and because both of those songs were uptempo she became the second female soca artiste in the
English Caribbean to win a Road March title with an uptempo soca song and the first to do so since 1996.
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also became parents in 2009 to a daughter born on
February 28, 2009, just a few weeks after Carnival. Fay-Ann has performed at musical events both locally and abroad. Her on-tour performance events and locations include: Washington DC (2009) & (2017) BET's
253:(2015), London's Coronet (2015), Berlin Carnival-Germany and, BET X Live (2018). She is officially the new record holder for the most up-tempoes ever released by a female Soca musician with 28 up-tempo soca songs surpassing the previous record of 22 set by
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recording artist and songwriter. She is also known by the stage names Lyon
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355:(Bacchanal 45 Records, with Micky Rich)
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247:Coachella
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