Fay-Ann
Lyons-Alvarez
(born November
5, 1980) is a
Trinidadian soca
songwriter,
recording artist
and performer.
She is also
known by such
titles as the
Lyon Empress,
Mane the
Matriach and the
Silver Surfer, a
nickname which
she claimed
during her
performance at
the 2008
International
Soca Monarch.
She is married
to fellow
recording artist
and ‘Ragga Soca’
lyricist Bunji
Garlin. Fay-Ann
was born in
Point Fortin,
Trinidad to
parents Austin
Lyons (sobriquet
Superblue
formerly known
as Blueboy) and
Lynette Steele
(sobriquet Lady
Gypsy).
Fay-Ann Lyons is a
three-time
Trinidad and
Tobago Carnival
Road March
champion (2003,
2008, 2009) and
the 2009
International
Soca Monarch and
International
Groovy Soca
Monarch
champion. She
created history
again when she
won the
International
Soca Monarch for
the first time
in 2009, as the
first female to
win the Power
category, and
the first
individual (male
or female) to
win the Power,
Groovy and
People's Choice
awards on
Fantastic Friday
(aka Carnival
Friday) of the
competition
which is held
annually in
Trinidad. She is
the first woman
to accomplish
that feat while
pregnant.
Fay-Ann is the
youngest solo
artist (male or
female), still
actively
recording, with
multiple wins of
the Carnival
Road March
crown.
Fay-Ann now
stands as the
only female
artist to win
the Carnival
Road March three
times and the
second to attain
back-to-back
wins in two
consecutive
years. Fay-Ann
and husband
Bunji also
became parents
in 2009 to a
daughter, Syri,
born in February
2009, just a few
weeks after
Trinidad &
Tobago's
Carnival of that
year.
The song heard
here, All Over,
features both
Fay-Ann and one
of Trinidad &
Tobago's veteran
soca artists,
The Baron.
Two steel
orchestras,
Tropical Angel
Harps and
Pamberi, have
chosen to
perform All Over
as their tune of
choice in the
2012 national
Panorama
competitions.
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