TC unfazed by exclusion

Chrystal Cummins-Beckles (left) and Ian Webster, tent colleagues of the All Stars sharing a moment after the announcement of the 2012 Pic-O-De-Crop semi-finalists.

House of Soca calypsonians Andre “Dre” Inniss and Chad “Sir Ruel” Bowen, congratulating each other for making the Pic-O-De-Crop semi-finals. (Pictures by Sandy Pitt.)

By John Sealy | Fri, July 13, 2012 - 12:10 AM

Popular calypsonian Terencia TC Coward is not worried about being left out of the MQI/Banks/LIME Pic-O-De-Crop semi-finals slated for the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex next Friday.

It would be the first time in 12 years that TC, who said the judges’ decision was final, would not be facing them in the semis.

“I would be focussing my attention on the Soca and the Party Monarch,” the performer, who won both of those competitions in 2009, told the WEEKEND NATION.

“Last night [Wednesday], I was fast asleep and my phone rang about 1:30 [a.m.] and it was a fan, who happens to be a client, [and] said to me: ‘You did not make the 18’. And I said: ‘Okay’. And the person said to me: ‘Are you sleeping or are you awake?’ I said: ‘You woke me up, so I am awake.’ But they said: ‘You did not say anything’. And I said: ‘What you want me to say?’.”

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Posted by Mary Yearwood 11 months, 1 week ago: But what is the reason for the exclusion? It's a shame, since there is such a terrible shortage of female singers that offer up quality songs and TC consistently fills that void.