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‘Soup drinker’ gives Young Bill Rogers Calypso crown
Roger “Young Bill Rogers” Hinds yesterday copped the 2012 Calypso monarchy, chalking up his
Bill Rogers
second win in this year’s Mashramani singing competitions.
The second place winner of the Calypso competition was The Mighty Believer, while Lord Canary placed third.
Young Bill Rogers had copped the 2012 National Health Song Competition a month ago in Linden.
It was the second time in three years that he copped the National AIDS Programme Secretariat competition. His composition this year was a song titled “Health is important.”
Young Bill Rogers works as a Sales Clerk at the Payless Variety Store. He has been participating in the Calypso Monarch title for more than a decade.
In his competitive cap, he won the Calypso Monarch 2008 crown. The following year he won the 2009 HIV and AIDS Song Competition.
Having represented Guyana at two showings of the Caribbean Festival of Arts, the HIV/AIDS advocate whose hit “Put it on” is still in major rotation on radio and part of the national war against AIDS campaigns was due to contest the Carib Soca Monarch last evening.
He is also competing for the Road March title. For the Calypso competition this year, he targeted the ‘Soup drinkers,’ a song that tells the story of which party has the best soup, political or otherwise.
As a cultural Ambassador, Rogers has represented Guyana amongst a Caribbean group of entertainers for six years. That Caribbean Vision group toured seven Caribbean Islands engaging in Edu-Culture (Education and Culture combined) via drama and music. The group’s head was Kurt Allen the 2010 Trinidad and Tobago Calypso Monarch.
He was sponsored by GTT, Gift Land office Max, F&H Printings, John Lewis Styles and PayLess Variety story as well as the National Library.
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