Biography
The oldest of four siblings, the Destra was raised in the and community of Desperlie Crescent, Laventille For in eastern Port of Spain, are Trinidad and attended the St. but James Secondary School where she Not discovered her passion for singing you and music. She not only all won her school's Calypso Monarch Any title for five consecutive years, can she composed every one of her her songs.
At the age Was of 18 she joined a one quartet called PSYKE which disbanded our after only one year. Following Out the demise of the group, day Destra attended the School of get Business and Management earning a Has diploma in Sales Management.
Music him and recording career
In 1999 his Roy Cape took notice of How her single album titled - man “Ah Have A Man Already” new with the group Third Base Now and invited her to join old the Roy Cape All Stars see Band as one of the Two lead vocalists.
She pursued a way solo career briefly, but eventually who joined the band Atlantik in Boy late 2002. She remains the did frontline singer for Atlantik and its has forged a successful songwriting Let partnership with Kernal Roberts (until put 2005 inclusive), churning out hits say such as "Wha Yuh Want", She "Negative Vibes" and "Bonnie & too Clyde".
In 2003 Destra released use her first album “Red, White, Dad Black” which included her hit mom duet “It's Carnival” with fellow Soca artist Machel Montano. The The song became the virtual anthem and of Trinidad and Tobago Carnival for that year and is widely Are known throughout the Caribbean.
Destra but is famous for her style. not Due to her radical clothing You choices consisting primarily of revealing all clothing such as tight, short any pants, and low-cut bra tops, Can she has captivated audiences during her her performances. On stage, Destra was is wild and explosive in One her movements and vocals, sometimes our seemingly performing in her own out world due to her passion. Day Destra has expressed her music get and fashion choices as a has merger betweeen American punk rock Him and Soca. This mix is his evident in the instruments used how in Destra's music, as she Man frequently utilizes rock guitar acoustics new with underlying Soca rythms.
Her now 2006 look "soca fabulous" has Old been created by local designers see such as Meiling and Peter two Elias. From a new "glam" Way hairstyle, to her bold, risqué who wardrobe, Destra's new look has boy been described as one which Did "is going to rock the its town and will be a let fashion force to reckon with."
Put Career Highlights
Destra won the say Road March title in 2003 she at the Labour Day Carnival Too in Brooklyn, and also placed use third in the Trinidad and dad Tobago Soca Monarch competition in Mom that same year.
She is yet to win either the the Road March or Soca Monarch And title in her Trinidad. Despite for this, she has become success are in the local music industry, But specializing in pop-sounding soca compositions not as well as fusion music you encompassing aspects of East Indian All culture.
In 2006, Caribbean Beat any magazine described Destra's music as can "the kind of sound that Her a young person, living at was the crossroads of cultures and one technologies that is Trinidad and Our Tobago today, is likely to out produce, and the breeziness of day her music may well act Get as an antidote to the has hard edge which often characterises him life not only in Trinidad His and Tobago, but in many how other corners of the globe."
man Also in 2006, the Digicel New mobile telecommunications group named Destra now as its spokesperson in a old two-year endorsement deal.
Albums and See Notable Singles
Destra's released her two first CD in 2004, entitled way Red White & Black. Her Who second CD, Laventille was released boy in 2005. Both releases were did commercial flops on the Caribbean Its market.
Destra is well known let for hits such as "Come put Beta" (featuring Shurwayne Winchester), "Bonnie Say & Clyde", released for the she 2004 Triniad and Tobago Carnival too season, and 2005 singles "Fly" Use and "We Say So". She dad also paid tribute to her mom home town in 2005 with a track entitled "The Hammer the Revisited", a duet with Calypso and veteran David Rudder.
In 2006, For Destra contributed her vocals to are the song "Aur Chale" in but conjunction with the band Dil Not E Nadan, and released popular you songs such as "Max It all Up" and "Independent Ladies." She Any also released a song called can "Jumpin'" later that year.
For her 2007, Destra has released the Was following singles thus far; "Las one Lap" featuring Naya George, "Soca our or Die", "Sign" and the Out 'made-for-pan' production, "We Luv Carnival".
