Customs Boys honour SuperBlue
Posted: Tuesday, February 3, 2004

Newsday TT

AUSTIN "SuperBlue" Lyons will be honoured February 18 by the organisers of the Customs Boys Carnival fete "Pan-O-Brass-Pan." The event takes place at the PSA. Grounds, Long Circular Road, St James.

Dawad Phillip, public relations manager of this year's Customs Boys fete, said February 18 will be declared "Blue Day" as the celebrations will focus on the theme "Tribute To SuperBlue, Long Overdue." Phillip says people will be asked to wear something blue in honour of the popular calypsonian.

Apart from the fete, other tributes are planned in different parts of the county this month, revealed Phillip. These will be announced shortly. Austin Lyons entered the soca/calypso arena 1980 with "Soca Baptist" a controversial hit tune that catapulted him to overnight stardom and copped the Road March title that year. He followed that victory with seven other Road March titles and six International Soca Monarch titles.

In his 24-year stage history, SuperBlue has given the world hits such as "Unknown Band," "Fete," "Swing," "Retreat," "Soca In De Shaolin Temple," "Lucy," and "Superman." Music for the 41st staging of 2K4 Pan-O-Brass-Pan will be supplied by Machel Montano and His Marching Band, Roy Cape's All Stars, Caribbean Traffik Jam, Atlantik, Blue Ventures, Invazion, Bunji Garlin and Asylum and Maximum Dan.

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