{"id":10898,"date":"2023-07-08T07:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/?p=10898"},"modified":"2023-07-11T07:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T11:43:01","slug":"arthur-and-nerdy-crowned-2023-soca-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/arthur-and-nerdy-crowned-2023-soca-kings\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur and Nerdy Crowned 2023 Soca Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\nTwo new kings have been crowned for the Groovy and Power Soca Monarch competitions after an extremely competitive competition last evening at the SAAB. Returning from a short hiatus from the Groovy Soca competition stage, 5-time monarch, Arthur Allain successfully captured his 6th<\/sup>\u00a0Groovy Soca Monarch title with his song \u201cIrie\u201d, which saw the SAAB grooving from left to right throughout the performance.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAlso coming off a hiatus, Imran Nerdy, was crowned the new Power Soca King with his song Clock Out.\u00a0\u00a0Nerdy also captured 4th place in the Groovy Soca segment with his song Unemployed. This is Nerdy\u2019s 1st<\/sup>\u00a0time capturing the monarch and he explained how happy he was to see the energy from the Saint Lucia during his performances.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Power Soca Winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe results for this year\u2019s Groovy and Power Soca Monarch Competition are as follows:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Rank\u00a0<\/strong><\/th>\r\nGroovy Soca Monarch\u00a0<\/strong><\/th>\r\nPower Soca Monarch\u00a0<\/strong><\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n
Winner\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\r\nArthur<\/td>\r\nNerdy<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1st<\/sup>\u00a0Runner- Up\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\r\nEzra DaFunMachine<\/td>\r\nRicky-T<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Runner- Up<\/strong><\/td>\r\nRicky T<\/td>\r\nEzra DaFunMachine<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3rd<\/sup>\u00a0Runner- Up\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\r\nNerdy<\/td>\r\nShemmy J<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Groovy Soca Winners<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe exciting weekend of competition continues on the SAAB with Calypso Monarch schedule for this evening, July 8, National Panorama on Sunday, July 9, and King and Queen of the Bands on Monday, July 10. Junior revellers will also line the city tomorrow, July 9 for the Junior Carnival parade from 12 noon at the Derek Walcott Square.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTickets for all events can be purchased at the Cell outlets and Steve\u2019s Barbershop in Castries. Tickets can also be purchased at the gates on event days.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTo stay informed on updates on Saint Lucia Carnival go to\u00a0www.carnivalsaintlucia.com<\/a>\u00a0or follow @carnivalsaintlucia on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Follow @juniorcarnivalsaintlucia on Instagram for everything relating to Junior Carnival.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new kings have been crowned for the Groovy and Power Soca Monarch competitions after an extremely competitive competition last evening at the SAAB. Returning from a short hiatus from the Groovy Soca competition stage, 5-time monarch, Arthur Allain successfully captured his 6th\u00a0Groovy Soca Monarch title with his song \u201cIrie\u201d, ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10915,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10898\/revisions\/10915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcistlucia.com\/staging\/5763\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}