“There are men and there are women. There are men who want to become women and women who want to become men. We need to make it clear that this article focuses on the male to female sex change, because it’s much more common than the alternative (female to male). But the resources with which we’ll provide you are generally helpful, no matter what your situation may be…”

That is an excerpt from a “Sex Change” website I was reading. This could be the last time I am writing to you as a man….

I have been surfing the net investigating what it costs to get one of those “sex operations” for 2 reasons.

1. I would get to use the women’s bathrooms which are always cleaner.
2. I would get discovered and get to make it big in the United States

A commentator asked the question on Boyce Voice, how come only Bajan females are being discovered and I realised it was true. If you look on the front of the Barbados Music Awards Magazine you would see 3 bajans getting big U.S recording contracts and ALL OF THEM ARE WOMEN!!

Rihanna, Shontelle and now Livvi Franc, not one single man. Don’t we have a single talented male in Barbados?

It’s not that I have a problem with women making it big as I like women bad! If you read Khaidji’s comment to my Tribute to Rihanna, She Looks Like Food post below calling me a pervert you would see how that “like” gets me in trouble. But I still feel at some point in time they should give a man a break.

Is this some sort of gender bias that exists? I should have accosted Evan Rogers with that question when he was at the Barbados Music Awards. I should have spoken to him “man to man”.

We got Philip 7 and Hal Linton and Ronnie Morris, J KO. You mean not a single one of them could get discovered? I would bet if Hal Linton were a woman he would have a big recording contract ever since.

I have given up, if you need to be a woman to be discovered well, I will be a woman then…!
And since I am not fond of men, I plan to become a lesbian woman (not the agressive “biting’ type though) My name will be “Petra”. So look out for Petra making it big in the U.S soon…

PLUS I will get to use women’s bathrooms, aint it cool??

Next new bajan artiste being signed to United States record Deal “Petra”

I came across this picture of the Rihanna, winner of the Barbados Music Awards Female Entertainer of the year,I was quite taken then…

I had to get up from the computer and walk a bit to calm myself. This woman look so good then, now here’s a woman who looks like food!
I am sure the men out there would be quite taken by this picture and some women too

Just look at Rihanna lying in that bed with those legs and lips, looking all sensuous… wouldn’t you like to get under her umbrella…? ………I have just been advised by Darron that this is not that kind of a blog…so I must stop

I was a bit miffed that Rihanna did not make it to the Barbados Music Awards this year, I considered going into one of the bathrooms and hanging myself but I had people to take home, plus I would have missed Krosfyah’s performance.
The below Madd track I want to dedicate to the beautiful Rihanna, its like Eric Lewis is singing about her in this song.
Girl you look so sweet
you gimmie cold bumps from my head to my feet

Click and take a listen to the song “FOOD” and see what I mean

Just take note there’s a difference between eating and “biting” ….

 

 Food [4:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

Ok boys and girls gather around….Its Barbados Music Awards Picture Time on BoyceVoice.com..
They say a picture is worth a thousand words but I will still throw in my two cents caption underneath for the purposes of clarity..

Here is Entertainer of the Year Lil Rick receiving his award…

Entertainer of the Year Rick performing “Cann Wait”

here’s Band of the Year Krosfyah and Edwin performing All decked in white, this picture is especially for FyahKros

Krosfah again, this time featuring Khiomal and Mikey and Dance Machine Dancers, Khiomal celebrated his Birthday on Monday, wish him belated Birthday greetings people..

“What a Beautiful Surprise!” Its “Best Rock Alternative Artiste” Philip 7

Direct from Jamaica it’s Voice Mail performing with our own Bajan Girl TJ from Strategy

Again from Jamaica this time its Sizzler, his “hot” performance brought the house down

Calypso King RPB receiving his award for “Best Social Commentary”, he tied with calypsonian Blood

Calypso king and BMA winner RPB sitting in the audience with Cultural Ambassador Gabby or Ex Cultural Ambassador, I don’t know, what’s the story with that?

Here is Shontelle and Beanie Man as they performed at the Barbados music awards on Sunday night at the Sir Garfield Sobers Complex.
Shontelle performed songs from her album “Shontelligence” displayed her stage presentation complete with her dancers before the Beanie came on stage.
She also thanked the Barbadian public for the support which you should keep giving.

Below, one person you can be sure will be supporting Shontelle Layne is her father Ramond Layne, here is a picture of him in the audience showing support on Sunday night…

More Pictures from the BMA coming soon!!

Me and Cornerstone recipient Mark Lorde 

Here are the Cornerstones and Lifetime achievement Awards given out at the Barbados Music Awards on Sunday Night.

Cornerstone Awards
Tamara Marshall
Mark Lorde
Troubadors
Tony “Poser Grazettes”
Derek Wilkie
Sach Moore
David Burnett
Andre Woodvine
Andy Williams
John Roett
Mike Grovesvenor
Doris Provencal

Living Legend Awards-
Mr. Vic Brewster
Mr. Vic Fernandez
Lifetime Achievement Awards-
Mr. Dorsie Boyce
Mr. Norman Barrow

Award of Merit
Sheryl Hackett

We at Boyce Voice wish to congratulate all the BMA winners and award recipients

The Barbados Music Awards happened last night at the Sir Garfeild Sobers Complex,
Here are all the winners for you too peruse and discuss…

Best Ragga- Soca Single- Male-
Mr. Dale- Soca Junkie

Best Ragga-Soca Single Female
Kimberley Inniss & Keann- Sweat

Best Soca Single
L’il Rick- Caan Wait

Best Social Commentary
Blood- Calypso Owes You Nothing
Red Plastic Bag- Bajans Can’t See

Best Soca Album (Solo, Duo or Group)
Krosfyah- Fire Proof

Best Reggae Single
David Kirton- Green Camouflage

Best Soca Compilation
Red Boyz- Soca Bonfire

Best Non- Soca Compilation
Hit Island Vol. 1

Reggae Artiste of the Year
David Kirton

Best Rock / Alternative Artist
Phillip 7

Best Jazz Album
Arturo Tappin

Best Jazz Artiste
Arturo Tappin

Gospel Artiste
KDB

Rap / Hip-Hop Artiste
Ruby Tech

Best Rap / Hip-Hop Single
Ruby Tech & Damian Marvay- Reasons

Pop / R&B Artiste of the Year
Rihanna

Best Pop / R&B Single
Rihanna- Don’t Stop The Music

Best Soca Collaboration
Kimberley Inniss & Keann- Sweat

Best Non- Soca Collaboration
Ruby Tech. & Damian Marvay- Reasons

Band of the Year
Krosfyah

Producer of the Year
Red Boyz

Instrumentallist of the Year
Arturo Tappin

BMA Media Award- Print / Internet
Andrea King- Nation Newspaper

BMA Media Award- Radio / Television
Hurricane

Best New Artiste
Nard

Best Music Video- Male
David Kirton- Green Camouflage

Best Music Video- Female
Rihanna- Shut Up And Drive

Songwriter of the Year
Dale “Mr. Dale” Rudder

Engineer
Deepu Panjwani

Song of the Year
Rihanna- Umbrella

Album of the Year
Rihanna- Good Girl Gone Bad

Entertainer of the Year – Female
Rihanna

Entertainer of the Year- Male
L’il Rick

People’s Choice DJ Award
Jon Doe

People’s Choice Entertainer of the Year
Rihanna

Beanieman and Shontelle performing at BMA awards, look out for more exclusive pics coming soon..

Whoa, Turning Music into gold, I could use some more jewelery, the Barbados Music Awards is definitely a must go this year…
When I peruse the above poster and look at the lineup of entertainment industry professionals who will be taking part, one question comes to my mind …. What refreshments will be served?

Will it be fishcakes and Samosas,will there be those little roti snacks like what I got at the Government meetings?Will there be snacks there for vegetarians?

Another pertinent question is why even do they list the presenters and not the food on the flyer, yes its nice to hear that Rihanna’s manager Evan Rogers and Coscap’s CEO Erica Smith are going to be there, but you cant eat them.

I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE FOOD!

Last point, Don Pooh, what sort of a name is “Pooh”? Is he family to Winnie the Pooh? I gotta hear him speak, when he finishes his presentation I would ask that in the Q & A session.

I must admit it does seem like quite an impressive line up of International Industry Professionals that you would probably never get close too other wise, that why you should take advantage of this opportunity, be early last year all the seats went in a hurry..

If the Presenters don’t excite you remember, refreshments are being served!

Lets see how smart you are, what is wrong with below advertisement for Sunday’s Barbados Music Awards? see if you can spot the error…..

Ok now there are some among you Mr Traxx included, who would say that the error is the Hon Prime Minister is now David Thompson, is that what you said?
Well YOU ARE WRONG! Yes the PM is now David, but the really big error is that MY NAME IS NOT MENTIONED..
I see Shontelle, Lil Rick, Beanieman , Machel etc, but where is mention of Peter Boyce?
Ive got a good mind to phone Ronnie and give him a piece of my mind if I didn’t think he would withdraw my invite.

I always figured that when I heard Rihanna was not coming I would have been the featured act, you know how many legions of People would flock to the gym to meet Peter Boyce?

They are scores of people looking to curse me or lick me up for something I wrote on Boyce Voice and Ronnie would have had a sold out show..
wait till I see show producers Ronnie Morris then and that one Russel Ruck!! and I will be seeing them when I attend the Barbados Music Awards this Sunday, looking forward to seeing you there as well…

P.S; Did I mention Boyce Voice was nominated for a BMA award? I have my acceptance speech done write, If I don’t win, I have another kind of speech which will make the gym a most colourful place to be…

Received the below email from Ronnie Morris who is an entertainer and director of the Timeless production team of Barbados Music Awards….

Dear all,

Please come out and vote for me, as I am attempting to become a member of the Board of COSCAP. I think that as a young person in the industry, it would be good to have representation for young artistes on COSCAP’s Board. The meeting to vote will be held this Saturday at Almond Catering (in same building as Opa!) in Christ Church at 10AM sharp. I need your support on this one.

Refreshments will be served.

Regards,
Ronnie Morris

We entertainers need to throw our support behind Ronnie in his quest to be nominated to the board of COSCAP (Copyright Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers Inc). With vibrant young talents like Ronnie on the board it will be a new opportunity to bring new direction and vision to the agency. So I want to encourage all COSCAP members to come out and participate in Saturday’s Annual General Meeting instead of stopping home and complaining when the voting is done and the same old people are reinstated.

Of course while I encourage you to be there and I am hoping to be there too, I am being optimistic as I was unceremoniously ejected from last years AGM under the guise I was not a member despite joining up several months before.

Let’s see what happens this year..
So come out and support Ronnie at COSCAP AGM this Saturday if not for the sake of making our industry a more viable place to do business, for the sake of the refreshments….

I was expecting that you would see a full list of the Barbados Music Award nominees in this weekend’s newspaper. Instead the Nation’s Saturday Sun published an “edited list of some of the nominees”. I would think that journalistic responsibility would dictate that at least once you would publish ALL of the names of the entities and persons who were nominated so the public would know and not just who you feel like highlighting.

Boyce Voice had been unaware that we had been nominated for an award and if we were waiting to see it in the media we still would not have known. Had it not been for Boyce Voice along with the Timeless website there would have been no one source where you could go and see ALL the nominees for the Music Awards as we said “uncut and unedited“. Boyce Voice was able to get the highest hits since we have been operating because of our publishing of the full BMA nominee list, and because of your interest and feed back it is now our most commented post.

This kind of omission by the traditional media underscores the importance of the continued existence of sites not only of Boyce Voice but Kadoment.com, Bajan Dance Hall, Bajan Reporter and the controversial Barbados Underground.
Technology allows us to have a voice that can circumvent traditional media and to fill that void which is sometimes left when the full truth needs to be told. So therefore in some ways we should not complain about the omission, that is why Boyce Voice is here, to fill that void.