PATRICE ROBERTS

Patrice Roberts has been singing professionally since the tender age of 8 in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago. Roberts, who is also a model and tenor steel pannist descends from a musical family. She was educated at Toco AC School and Toco Composite School where she was a Form Five student.

Though young in years, Roberts has the background of a seasoned performer. The Sangre Grande Junior Calypso Monarch competition (which she won in 1995) was her first professional singing experience, but she realized her true calling as a performer when she participated in her first National Junior Calypso competition at age fifteen. In 2000, she became a top finalist in the competition, marking her ascent in the calypso arena.

The year 2001 was also memorable for Roberts where she became the National Soca Monarch, the National Library Calypso Monarch and the National Junior Calypso Monarch, which she won again in 2002. Other career highlights include Toco Personality Winner 2000; U.N.D.P. second-runner up 2001; second-runner up in both the Junior Soca and Junior Calypso Monarch competitions and finalist in the International Soca Monarch competition in 2003 and 2004.

Roberts has graced stages across the globe, performing at London’s Royal Opera House, the Barbados Crop Over Festival, the Miami Junior Carnival and several other New York venues like K.C.’s Hideaway, the Elite Ark, Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts, The Brooklyn Museum and The Afrika House where she performed amongst noted talents as Queen Singing Sandra, the legendary Black Stalin, the Mighty Sparrow and Jamaica’s Hopeton Lewis.

In December 2003, Roberts’ debut CD titled Blossoming was released. She co-wrote the album with the popular Calypsonian, Impulse.

Recent awards include "2005 Best New Soca Collaboration of the Year" for 'The Islands' featuring Bunji Garlin and in 2006 Patrice won the coveted "ROAD MARCH" title, with 'Band of D Year' featuring Machel Montano.