Roger George

When we talk about high energy, vibrant, soft-spoken, breath taking, and polite you can put Rogers name in the same sentence. Roger has been singing for over 17 years.

Even as a young singer Roger displayed tremendous potential and talent, which manifested itself in the early coronations as "The Junior Calypso Monarch," in 1988, 1990 and 1991 , respectively.

This talent would not go unnoticed, with the departure of Chris "Tambu" Herbert, Roger was approached by the successful Charlies Roots band to take up a position as lead vocalist. This position would lead Roger to play an active role within the soca industry, backing up various artists without rehearsal and playing percussions with the band in addition to his role as lead vocalist.

Fastforward to 1994, Roger decides to spread his wings, taking up residence in California he worked with Trinidad base bands like, Upstream and Steel Pulse. His talents and exasperating voice took him to the San Francisco Carnival , to work with the band "Banyon," a branch off of Peter Minshalls "Odyssey". Upon the rquest of long time friend,and mentor, the legendary Carl Jacobs, 1995 Roger moves to Miami becoming lead singer of Jacobs'

band "Islander." While taking up residence in Miami, Roger goes on to release a string of songs. 1998 sees Roger returning to Sweet T&T with the release of his hit "Take it out" produced by Earl Crosby. Fastforward Carnival 2000, Roger has joined the band, XTATIK. He is pleased with what he sees and feels strong vibes about the members and management.
Roger has a long journey ahead of him, and is very excited and enthusiastic about the path that he has chosen to take. In 2001, Roger had a great year and with the absence of Machel, his presence on the stage as one of the major front line singers played a major part in the band moving forward with much success.

2002 would prove to be a very successful year for RG with the smash hit single, "Mo Luv" a feature song on Xtatik 2002 CD. Radios stations DJ's around New York, Boston, Miami, Canada and the Caribbean helped popularize this song. In December of 2001, Roger released "Break" featuring Machel Montano. The song was a monster hit for Carnival 2002, also featured on Xtatik 2002 CD. Roger also went on to hold the title of 2002 Pan Calypso Monarch, when he performed his smash hit song "Good News", which Exodus Steel Orchestra chose "Good News" as the song to beat for 2002 National Panorama Championships. After 2002 Carnival he became a featured front line member of Bryon Lee and the Dragonaires, Jamaica's number one soca band. This year Roger has succeeded in contiuning his momentum from 2002, being crowned Young Calypso King for 2003 with his inspirational composition "These are the days."

Roger's journey has started in the land of Soca in Trinidad and Tobago. His future is very bright and hopes that his voice will lead him around the world not only in the soca industry, but also in R & B, Jazz and Gospel music.

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