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Destra Garcia has grown from strength to strength since her 1999 debut and the entertainer is showing no signs of slowing down challenging herself every year, taking her music and her fans along for the exciting journey. Her music has already proved its staying power and its ability to captivate multiple markets. Destra has won fans the world over and has set the mark for high energy live sets that leave audiences wanting more. She firmly believes that you learn more as you grow. From experiences you learn from your mistakes. You have to do what you have to do to make yourself happy. She barely has time for herself, completing gigs with her band Atlantik as well as handling solo performances. Thats just one of the sacrifices she's had to make for her success. Another is spending quality time with her family and friends. But she's determined to achieve her dream of taking soca music to international markets. A guaranteed hit with music loving audiences everywhere, her energetic performances and eye-catching costumes commanding cameras, you might think, it's easy for all her success to go to her head but Destra knows the ropes in the competitive music arena. Audiences and critics always have their noses in the air for the next best thing, but she is prepared and her maturity is evident in her demeanor, her command of the stage, her writing and her sense of self. "I'm a lot more relaxed and focused. I'm not worried about stuff that has nothing to do with what I'm doing. I'm concentrating on maintaining my voice, using new vocal techniques. I am engaging in a higher level of spirituality in my preparation. At Carnival you are studying so much more: the music, audiences, what people are saying about what you are doing, what you are wearing so I am taking it all in stride because with God anything is possible," she explained, "Everybody is experimenting to see if we could all take soca to another level. I think soca is already good, I've decided to see if I can make it more marketable. I'm all for experimenting but I want to keep most of the elements that already exist."
Destra performed with Third Base on the Link Up Productions hit, 'Ah Have A Man' Already. The track, which was spawned from the Pigtail Rhythm produced by Ken Holder, is a runaway hit, audiences clamor for more from Destra. Destra became the First lead Female vocalist of Roy Cape All Stars. Still holding down her job at Mc Enearney Business Machines. In 2001, Destra shook the airwaves with her third single, Tremble It. She placed fourth in the Soca Monarch competition, and third in the Road March race. The band
traveled to gigs in North America, Europe and other parts of the Caribbean.The
next year she recorded She performs in schools nationwide on a tour sponsored by FritoLay. She completes a successful tour of North America and the Caribbean on the strength of her growing repertoire of hits. The makers of the internationally known Captain Morgan's Rum use Destra's Bonnie and Clyde in their North American ad campaign. The ad is featured in prime time spots on all major US cable music channels. International recording artiste, Kevin Lyttle introduces MTV's 10 Spot to Destra when the DJ plays a recording of It's Carnival while he dances with the crowd. In 2006 Destra signed up with telecommunications giant, Digicel to become their first female spokeswoman in Trinidad and Tobago. Destra releases her fourth album Independent Lady, which features the hits 'Independent Lady', 'Aur Chale' (with Dil E Nadan), 'Colors', 'Jumpin', 'Out Ah Time', and 'Max It Up'. The Max It Up video spends several weeks in the weekly video countdown program, De Scene on Synergy TV and on MTV Tempo. 2007
RELEASES 2006
RELEASES 2005
RELEASES 2004
RELEASES 2003
RELEASES Real
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DESTRA
GARCIA
She
started singing calypso at the early age of 10 years old, at her then Primary
school St Crispin Anglican. She participated in many interschool calypso competitions
in her first competitive year, and actually won her first competition. Her talents
propelled her into the Junior Calypso Monarch competitions nationwide, where she
emerged victorious at the Burrokeets Junior and Senior Monarchs at the age of
14 and 15 years old, and was a finalist at the NJAC Junior Calypso Competitions
and NCC Junior Calypso Monarch. She was also no stranger to new audiences being
a member of the NCC Junior Roving Tent. She attended St James Secondary School
and The Polytechnic Sixth form government secondary.
three
singles, off the Roy Cape CD, titled Set it off, Sex Appeal, and Wrong Bam Bam,
she was all over the radio and setting fire to the clubs. After spending three
and a half years with the band, Destra resigned her position as lead female vocalist
of the Roy Cape All Stars, she immediately started work on her debut album Red
White Black and became the female lead vocalist for the band Atlantik. In 2003,
Destra releases Red White Black. The album spawns the massive hit 'It's Carnival'
it sweeps masqueraders through the streets on Carnival Monday and Tuesday. The
track also features vocals by Machel Montano. 'Whey Yuh Want' and 'Choo Choo'
are also crowd favorites. Her sophomore effort Laventille embraces a subject close
to her heart. "That's where I'm from and it's to express the view of Trinidad
from Laventille. "The parallel between the two," she explained, "It's
to give back to my people and produce something good called 'Laventille' to combat
all the negativity associated with the place. I would be nowhere if Trinidad were
not so supportive of me. I wanted to go deeper and I wanted to show that I'm proud
of where I came from." Laventille contains tracks like 'Bonnie and Clyde',
'Up in the air', 'Come Beta (with reigning Groovy & Power Soca Monarch King,
Sherwin Winchester), 'Negative Vibes' and a club remix of It's Carnival. It also
features 'Rollercoaster', a song for pan written and produced by Andre Tanker
and a gospel track. The album features production by Ken Marlon Charles (KMC),
Junior "Ibo" Joseph, Brian Morris and Ricardo Rameshwar.
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