It has been one year since he stormed on stage declaring “God Don’t Sleep” and unnerved a government minister who had the calypso pulled from the air. Unfazed and still in preacher mode, he returned to the calypso scene last week to say that his social commentary often stabs because it’s “De Truth”.
The truth hurts and Lester ‘De Professor’ Charles has a way of telling it that could inflict injury. But such is the man’s music – it engages, it electrifies, it stabs and it soothes. He has been consistently good for the last few years and on February 14 he successfully defended his calypso crown with the hard-hitting piece, “De Truth”.
And judging from how the night unfolded De Professor could easily make it a three-peat. His competition, with the exception of