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Macomere Fifi wears the crown and takes the Monarch Prize!!!

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Crowning Glory - Fourpeat For Calypso Winner    The scrum - photographers take pictures of the coronation Canada has a new monarch. She was crowned last night. All hail Macomere FiFi. She is one of Canada's most successful Calypso singers, and last night, in Toronto, she won Canada’s top calypso music prize – Kaiso 365 – before a capacity crowd in the P.C. Ho Theatre, Chinese Cultural Centre. In a hotly contested battle between nine singers performing two songs each, Trinidadian-born Macomere Fifi also won the coveted People’s Choice Award and Special Awards for Best Composition On A Local Topic and Best Arrangement. Fifi’s first song, “Never Again”, was a powerful commentary about the honour killing of the Shafia sisters; her second number titled “Tell Me Why” probed the issues surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin. OCPA president Colin Benjamin is hugged by the new Monarch Eulith Tara Woods Trinidadian-born Macomere Fifi also won the