Cro Cro on Sunday claimed his fourth National Calypso Monarch title when he performed a humorous calypso entitled "Nobody Ain't Go Know" before the judges at the 2007 edition of the Dimanche Gras at the Jean Pierre Complex, Port of Spain.
By Wayne BowmanSinging in position 15, he scored 428 points with a performance that, although not faultless, was entertaining enough to earn him full support from the audience as well as the nod from the judges who decided the title and the $500,000 prize that went with it.
Cro Cro's song gave an account of his experiences whenever he travels to the United States and everyone he knows asks him to take things to relatives living in New York.
Cro Cro said he was always confident that he would win although he acknowledged that his competitors all had very good songs and delivered sterling performances.
DeFosto placed second with his performance of "Police Money" with which he scored 423 points. Always one to mount elaborate presentations, DeFosto opened with a small marching band coming to the stage at the southern end of the complex from the northern entrance.
DeFosto was dressed in a superintendent's uniform while the other persons accompanying him wore police clothing. He sang of the financial woes experienced by police officers and the reasons some of them fall into the temptation of committing fraud and other criminal acts.
Devon Seales, who scored 420 points with his performance of "One Song", took third place in spite of a near flawless performance that saw the young calypsonian taking the stage dressed as a gunslinger as he protested the new one-calypso-per-artiste criterion of the National Calypso Monarch competition.
Reigning National Calypso Queen and Unattached Calypso Monarch, Maria Bhola, who was one of the favourites to win, had to settle for fourth place although she delivered a very good performance of "I Love You".
In the King and Queen of Carnival competitions, Curtis Eustace, portraying "D'Wrath Of Tutankumhan" from the presentation Sahara by Island People, took the title of King of Carnival on Sunday at the Dimanche Gras, scoring a total of 424 points when he paraded before the judges. This is Eustace's eighth victory as King of Carnival.
The title of Queen of Carnival was taken by Peola Marchan, who portrayed "The Incandescence of Beatrice Love Has Brought" presented by We People International. The costume, which represented a scene from Dante's Inferno, earned Marchan a total 409 points and her first Queen of Carnival title.
Like the King, Marchan moved her costume around the court of the complex with ease in spite of its size, which dwarfed the masquerader.
