Rose nominated for French ‘Grammy’

Two days ago she was nominated for a Victoires de la Musique award, dubbed the French Grammy Awards and the Brit Awards for music. It is one of the major awards in France.

The actual show is scheduled for February 10, and Rose who is currently in New York was nominated for the “Music Album in the World” category following the successful release of her 2016 album Far From Home that went gold in France, a first by any local artiste. Other nominees in the category are Acid Arab for Music of France and Rokia Traore for Do So. Victoires de la Musique is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognise outstanding achievements in the music industry that recognises the best musical artistes of the year.

Celine Dion, whose album Another Night, the second biggest hit of the year in France, was ignored in all categories of the awards.

Rose will be attending the 32nd edition of the prestigious ceremony, after which she performs at a couple other shows in France before arriving in Trinidad on February 15 for two major Carnival events, one of which will be her own full-length concert on February 24, at the Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain.

At that concert Rose will have highly popular artistes guest with her on stage, along with her road musicians Drew Gonsalves, a TT/ Canadian, Corey Wallace (TT/ UK) and Jamba Eguema (Africa/ France).

No doubt patrons can look forward to hearing some of Rose’s big songs over the years, as well as her current hits including “Abatina”, “Tempo”, “Fire Fire”, “Israel By Bus” and “Senior Citizens Day”. It is hoped that the calypso queen will also give her fans “Her Majesty” and “Thanks”, the two numbers that gave her, her first National Calypso Monarch title in 1978, and of course her current mega hit, “Leave Me Alone”, that features Manu Chao on the original and Machel Montano on the remix.

Shortly after her local performance Rose is expected to fulfil other engagements outside of TT.

Her manager Jean Michel Gibert told Newsday yesterday that Rose is booked solidly for performances in Europe and South America from March till September 2017.