Kes

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About Kes

The members of Caribbean soca outfit Kes first came together as a pop-rock cover band called Limestone in order to enter a local talent competition. ∙ Adopting the name Kes in 2005, the group dropped their debut album, Three Baldheads and a Dread, the following year. ∙ “Wotless,” the title track of their fourth album, was Kes’ first bona fide smash, winning that year’s International Groovy Soca Monarch competition during Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago. ∙ The success of “Wotless”—which earned a Soul Train Music Awards nomination in 2011—expanded Kes’ reach beyond the Caribbean. ∙ In 2014, they launched Tuesday on the Rocks, an annual event during Trinidad and Tobago Carnival that has since become one of the festival’s most highly anticipated parties. ∙ Snoop Dogg, Gyptian, and Major Lazer have collaborated with the band, and Will Smith joined them onstage at a 2017 Trinidad concert. ∙ “Stage Gone Bad,” their hit single with Iwer George, dominated Carnival in 2020, winning both the International Power Soca Monarch and Carnival Road March competitions.

ORIGIN
Trinidad and Tobago
FORMED
2005
GENRE
Reggae
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