By Abigail Headley
As much as he loves Chutney, for Vicadi Singh, a 32-year-old husband and father from Better Hope, East Coast Demerara family is everything. Detailing part of his journey to the 2024 Chutney Monarch title, which he won with his song “Gone Away”, Singh spoke of the challenges he faced, his inspiration for the performance, and his hopes for the future.
“… Everything was going to plan until my two-year-old daughter took a high fever and had to stop in at the hospital for three days. I was in [the] United States on tour when that happened [and] I immediately had to return. This, of course, would break any parent seeing their child in such a state. My focus, my confidence, and my will to win was broken. But somehow my daughter started to recover and that itself restored some of what I lost, and somehow got me to complete my preparation,” he divulged.
