International soca artiste Patrice Roberts will start her global tour in Barbados at Kensington Oval on Mother’s Day.
I Am Woman, the show by the Trinidadian singer and performer, follows sold-out events in New York and Toronto on her 2024 tour.
Details on the event were announced at the offices of Standard Distributors Barbados last Thursday.
I Am Woman
is a production of Nouvelle Vie, headed by Orlando Newton, De Carla Applewhaite and Andrew Weekes of D& A Events Promotions.
Applewhaite told the
Sunday Sun: “We are thrilled at Patrice’s selection of Barbados for the I Am Woman concert tour stop. Barbados is very dear to her as it was the first place she started her solo career.
“It is significant that the show will be presented on one of the leading days that women are celebrated,” she said, adding: “This woman is taking soca to higher heights.”
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation station 98.1 The One is the media sponsor for the concert and sales, and marketing officer Alicia Hintzen described the international singer as “one of the best female soca artistes in Trinidad”.
“We know it is going to be a fantastic event. It is going to be the event to follow,” she said.
Newton told the specially invited guests and media that “the experience is going to be awesome – a celebration of women”.
He said the aim was to produce a show that was even better than the Trinidad and Tobago edition “and to do it again next year . . . The industry is still having a hard time (financially),” he said.
In addition to beginning her career in Barbados, people close to Patrice told the newspaper that she had challenges in her life and it was in Barbados that she found solace.
Newton said the supporting act was always a secret until the last minute.
“We never know whom she is going to bring,” he said. (HH)
