“Who taking over, Chinese
Big business in Guyana, Chinese
Cellphones and your TV, Chinese
Everything now in the country, Chinese
The clothing you wear, Chinese
Women check out your false hair, Chinese
Ayo look at me, I am an Afro-Chinese”
It was third time lucky for 2014 Junior Calypso Monarch Shontell Gittens, who had previously entered the competition in 2012 and 2013.
Shontell, who comes from a family of singers, told The Scene in an interview this week that her winning calypso “Chinese Taking Over” was written by Roger ‘Young Bill Rogers’ Hinds. Shontell said she went for it because she wanted to “switch it up” this year. “I looked and analysed what was going on in today’s society like all Calypsonians do. But I didn’t want to sing the songs we hear every year about domestic violence, teenage
