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Daly Bread: Running in my blood; why Sekon Sta is a true Carnival innovator
Carnival pores now raising up. Driven in part by the regret of pockets not filling, there are calls to do something to mark the spot normally occupied by the Carnival season.
But Sekon Sta is smarter than all of those who are belatedly rushing into the headlines. In the words of Sparrow: ‘Ah wish, I coulda go and shake he han’.
Photo: Soca star Sekon Sta performs in Second Sunday at the Queen’s Hall, PoS on 10 January 2021.
(Photo courtesy Kyle Frederick)
I might invite him to change his name to ‘First Sta’, in recognition of being the first to re-jig a carnival product for pandemic times.