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Bad Gyal Shyanne: Break Me Down, a bouyon open mic filmed in Roseau

Published October 20, 2026

Bad Gyal Shyanne is a bouyon artist whose name appears, in the opened sources consulted, on a single object: “Break Me Down”, an open mic video, billed as bouyon in its very heading, where the page credits her twice, as the artist and as the performer of the record. The video is filmed at Roseau Market and the old Mill, and its description publishes a full credit roll: production by Kross Beats, additional production, arrangement, recording and engineering by Norman Dorival (Brockshot), bass by Keith Goddard, mixing and mastering at Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing, exclusive producer Dwayne Skerrit, the whole produced at Turnt up Tv Studio. The link to Dominica rests, and this profile states it as the source gives it, on the filming locations printed in the page and on the 767 booking number it publishes. No other record, no artist page and no biography of Bad Gyal Shyanne was found during this research.

Who Bad Gyal Shyanne is: one artist, one performance, one full credit roll

Let us start with the exact inventory, because the whole file fits inside it. Bad Gyal Shyanne is the artist name carried by the official heading “Bad Gyal Shyanne - Break Me Down (Open Mic Video) Bouyon”. In the description of the video, two lines name her: “Artist: Bad Gyal Shyanne” and “Performed by: Bad Gyal Shyanne”. She is therefore, according to the single opened source of this profile, the artist of record and the performer of “Break Me Down”. No writing line appears in the credit roll: the page does not say who wrote the record, and this profile attributes it to nobody, not even to her.

The name itself calls for a reading precaution. “Bad Gyal” is an expression carried by many Caribbean artists, and searches under that word alone return records and singers with no connection to this page, in soca, dancehall and elsewhere. What individualises the artist of this profile is therefore not the expression, but the full name, Bad Gyal Shyanne, attached to a precise record, “Break Me Down”, a precise video and a precise credit roll. No fact borrowed from a namesake, no date, no catalogue, no account, enters this file: everything that follows comes from the opened page, or from the pages of this site that it cross checks with.

What the file does not contain must be stated from the outset, with the same clarity. No source consulted gives a full name behind the stage name, nor an age, nor a path, nor an interview, nor a verified official photograph. No opened artist page on a streaming platform was verified under her name during this research, and searches under her full name return, as their relevant result, the video itself. Her published contact identifier is not a personal account: it is the booking address of the studio, [email protected], printed in the description, and this profile quotes it as a credit of the page, without raising it into an official account of the artist.

The status of Bad Gyal Shyanne, at this stage of the file, is therefore that of a voice documented by a filmed performance and by the team that made it. That is more than a bare heading, because the credit roll is complete, and it is less than a discography, because a single record is verified. In the Dominican bouyon scene, where studios publish their sessions and their open mics directly on YouTube, this kind of page is often the first public trace of a voice: it says who sings, who produces, where it was filmed and who to contact to book her. This profile publishes it for exactly that.

Break Me Down: the record and its open mic video, filmed at Roseau Market and the old Mill

The record is titled “Break Me Down”, written in capitals in the description, “BREAK ME DOWN”, and its form of publication is an open mic video: the full heading gives, in order, the name of the artist, the title, the Open Mic Video mention in brackets, then the word Bouyon, which classes the performance in the genre. The open mic format, in the usage of Caribbean studios, means a performance filmed in simple conditions, often outdoors or in a real setting, where the artist performs her record to camera rather than in a scripted music video. The page confirms that format through its filming location line, and through a separate image credit line, which this profile returns to below.

The filming locations are printed in the description, in one line: “Filmed location: Roseau Market and the old Mill”. Roseau is the capital of Dominica, and its market, Roseau Market, is one of the most recognisable public places of the town. The old Mill is the second setting named by the page. This profile reports the two names as they are published, without describing images that no written source describes: what is verified is that the production chose to sign its video with two Roseau locations, and to print them in the credit roll, on the same level as the sound credits.

It is on those locations, and on the 767 contact, that the link of the record to Dominica rests, and this profile phrases it exactly that way, without hardening it into biography. The description publishes a bookings block: “Bookings: [email protected]”, then two telephone numbers, “1 767 235 4444” and “1 721 524 3006”. The first carries the 767 area code, that of Dominica; the second carries 721, the area code of Sint Maarten, which this profile flags without lending it an explanation, the page giving none. An artist filmed in Roseau, reachable on a Dominican number through the studio that produces her: that is the documented link, and it bears on the production of the record as much as on the person, whose personal origin is published nowhere in the sources.

The page finally distinguishes two visual objects, and the distinction is part of the file. The opened video is the open mic, but the description also carries the line “Break Me Down Official Video: Shot By: Dwayne Skerrit”, which attributes the images of an official video of the same record to Dwayne Skerrit, the exclusive producer of the record. This profile opened only the open mic page: it therefore flags the existence of that credit line, which attests that an official video is credited in the same description, without describing an object it did not open. No release date, no duration and no listening figure for the record is published in the opened source, and none is invented here.

The credit roll line by line: Kross Beats, Norman Dorival (Brockshot) and Turnt up Tv Studio

The credit roll of “Break Me Down” is complete, and it deserves to be read line by line, because it is almost all the verified matter of this profile. Main production is credited to Kross Beats: “Produce By: Kross Beats”. Three lines then return to the same name, Norman Dorival, with his production name in brackets, Brockshot: “Additional Production by: Norman Dorival (Brockshot)”, “Arrange by: Norman Dorival (Brockshot)” and “Recorded and Engineered By: Norman Dorival (Brockshot)”. Additional production, arrangement, recording and engineering: on this record, Dorival is the man of the sound of the session, from the building of the track to its capture.

The place of production is named in one line: “Produce at: Turnt up Tv Studio”. It is also the studio whose booking address, [email protected], closes the description: the same house produces the record, films the performance and receives the booking requests. Exclusive production is credited to Dwayne Skerrit: “Exclusive Producer: Dwayne Skerrit”. The same Skerrit receives the image credit of the official video, “Shot By: Dwayne Skerrit”. In the economy of this small production, one name therefore organises the whole, another builds and captures the sound, and one banner, Kross Beats, signs the main beat.

The bass of the record is credited to a named musician, which is rare enough in current studio credit rolls to be underlined: “Bass By: Keith Goddard”. The name is not that of a stranger to readers of this site: Keith Goddard is the historic bassist of WCK, the founding band of bouyon. Our profile of Earlson Matthew, the WCK keyboardist, lists him on bass in both of the rosters of the band it publishes, that of the former members and that of the current members, alongside Earlson Matthew himself. The “Break Me Down” session therefore connects a new voice to a musician of the founding generation, through a printed bass credit, and this profile goes no further than that documented connection.

The finishing of the record is credited in one line that also cross checks with a file of this site: “Mix and Master at: Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing”. Imperial Publishing is the studio founded by Cornell Phillip, the founding keyboardist of WCK, whose path our profile documents. The spelling of the description, Cornel, with a single l, is one of the two spellings in circulation for his first name: our Cornell Phillip profile itself flags that variant, carried by other sources, and attributes both forms to the same man. The mixing and mastering of “Break Me Down” are therefore credited, under the Cornel variant, to the founder of Imperial Publishing: the record of an artist with no other trace passes, at its last stage of making, through the studio of one of the inventors of the genre.

The circle of the record: WCK, the bass of Keith Goddard and the lineage of bouyon

Read together, the credits of “Break Me Down” draw a precise circle, and that circle is Dominican from end to end. At the centre, a performer with no other verified trace. Around her, a beat producer, Kross Beats, an engineer arranger, Norman Dorival (Brockshot), an exclusive producer who also holds the camera of the official video, Dwayne Skerrit, a studio, Turnt up Tv Studio, and two names of the WCK generation: Keith Goddard on bass, and Cornel Phillip, that is Cornell Phillip, on mixing and mastering in his Imperial Publishing studio. Few first records published on YouTube line up a chain this readable, from the new voice to the founding hands.

A precision of honesty is required here, because the names look alike and this site checks its cross references against the documents. The bracketed name of Norman Dorival is Brockshot. The Earlson Matthew file published on this site contains no mention of Brockshot: checked across the full text of the page, the word does not appear there. The neighbouring word that does appear there is different: “Backshot”, the title of a track by Mr Delly with Likkle Man, quoted in a mix tracklist. Brockshot and Backshot are two distinct words, and this profile builds no link between Norman Dorival and Earlson Matthew. The verified cross check that passes through the Earlson Matthew page is that of Keith Goddard, listed in its WCK rosters, and that one alone.

The context of the genre gives that chain its reach. Bouyon is born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s, created by WCK, the band of Cornell Phillip and Keith Goddard. Its bouyon soca branch, documented on this site, has a precise starting point: according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer who lived the scene from inside, bouyon soca was started by Dada in 2003 in Dominica. That the mix of a 2026 open mic should be credited to the studio of the founding keyboardist, and its bass to the founding bassist, enters “Break Me Down” into the material continuity of that history: not a lineage claimed by a press release, but session credits, printed in a YouTube description.

Our bouyon riddim page explains the place of the riddim, the instrumental loop, in this making, and the credit roll of the record illustrates it in its own way: a main beat credited, an additional production and an arrangement credited separately, a bass played by a named musician rather than programmed anonymously. Our bouyon playlist follows the releases of this circuit through the seasons. The case of Bad Gyal Shyanne shows the circuit at its most artisanal level: a studio that produces, films, publishes and takes the bookings, and that connects its new voice to the musicians who invented the sound.

The keyword block: the search neighbourhood the page chooses

The description of the video ends with a keyword block, and that block is part of the facts of the page, as long as it is read for what it is: a publishing choice, not a credit roll. The page associates with the record the names of the Dominican and Antillean scene: ASA Bantan, Reo, Shelly, Trilla-G, Ridge, Mr. Killa, WCK (Windward Caribbean Kulture), Triple Kay International, Original Bouyon Pioneers (O.B.P.), Carlyn XP, Skinny Banton, Little Boy, Quan, Dirty Dawg Pudaz, NICE, Khallion, Kenny G, Fetty Mark, Quan Dan, Starsha, Faithii, Ebony Empress, Money Shaun, J-Lion, Krazy T, First Serenade, Klockerz, Signal Band and others besides. Several of those names have their profile on this site, and their presence here says in which search neighbourhood the production places its new artist: at the heart of the established catalogue of Dominican bouyon.

One name in that block deserves to be isolated, because it shows how these lists work. It reads “Lyrical K”, which is also the name of a bouyon artist documented elsewhere in the research of this site. Its presence in the keywords of the Bad Gyal Shyanne page is neither a collaboration, nor a feature, nor a credit: no credit roll connects the two names, and this profile states none. Keywords are the place where a small production declares its references and aims at the searches of DJs and listeners; confusing them with credits would distort the files of both artists at once.

That block also says, by contrast, the publishing strategy of the studio. An open mic filmed at the Roseau market, a full credit roll, a booking address, two telephone numbers, and a keyword list that lines up the pioneers and the headline names of the genre: the page is built as a complete calling card, where every element serves to place the artist and to make her reachable. For this profile, which has no other source at its disposal, that calling card is at once the subject and the limit: it documents a professional stage entry, not yet a career.

The limits of the file: one record, no biography

The file of Bad Gyal Shyanne fits into a single verified recording, and this profile counts it without adding any. “Break Me Down”, performed by Bad Gyal Shyanne, published as an open mic video billed as bouyon, produced by Kross Beats with Norman Dorival (Brockshot) on additional production, arrangement, recording and engineering, Keith Goddard on bass, mixed and mastered at Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing, produced at Turnt up Tv Studio under the exclusive production of Dwayne Skerrit, filmed at Roseau Market and the old Mill. No other record, under her lead name or as a feature, was found during this research in the sources consulted. The structured data of this page therefore carries exactly that single recording, and nothing else.

No opened artist page on a streaming platform was verified for Bad Gyal Shyanne during this research, and no personal official account was opened and confirmed: the only published contact is that of the studio, its booking address and its two numbers, among them the one in 767. No precise release date, no duration, no tempo and no listening figure is published in the opened source. No writing credit appears in the credit roll, and this profile attributes the writing of “Break Me Down” to nobody. The full name, the age and the personal origin of the artist are published by no source consulted, and the Dominican link of the file is that of the record and of its production, filming locations and 767 contact, stated as such from the start to the end of this profile.

If Bad Gyal Shyanne publishes a second record, a studio single, an artist page or an interview, this profile will be completed and dated like every page on this site, and her credits will be rechecked on that occasion. In the meantime, her listening fits into a single object: an open mic performance filmed in Roseau, carried by a credit roll where there can be read, from the first line to the last, the studio that launches her and the founding musicians of bouyon who finish her record. That is the real file of a bouyon voice in October 2026, no more, no less, and it is published as such.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Bad Gyal Shyanne?

Bad Gyal Shyanne is a bouyon artist credited as the artist and performer of “Break Me Down”, published as an open mic video billed as bouyon on YouTube. The video is filmed at Roseau Market and the old Mill, and its full credit roll is published in the description. No other record, no artist page and no biography of her was found during the research for this profile, carried out on October 20, 2026.

What is Break Me Down by Bad Gyal Shyanne?

“Break Me Down” is a bouyon record published in the form of an open mic video. Its description credits it as follows: produced by Kross Beats, additional production, arrangement, recording and engineering by Norman Dorival (Brockshot), bass by Keith Goddard, mixing and mastering at Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing, exclusive producer Dwayne Skerrit, produced at Turnt up Tv Studio. No writing credit, no release date and no duration is published on the page.

Where was the video filmed, and what is its link to Dominica?

The description prints the filming locations: “Filmed location: Roseau Market and the old Mill”, two places in Roseau, the capital of Dominica. The same page publishes a bookings block with the address [email protected] and two telephone numbers, among them 1 767 235 4444, under the 767 area code, that of Dominica, the other being under 721. The Dominican link of this profile rests on those locations and on that contact printed in the page, and on nothing else: no personal origin of the artist is published in the sources.

Who are Kross Beats, Norman Dorival (Brockshot) and Dwayne Skerrit on this record?

Three posts of the same credit roll, published in the description of the video. Kross Beats signs the main production. Norman Dorival, credited in the form Norman Dorival (Brockshot), handles the additional production, the arrangement, the recording and the engineering. Dwayne Skerrit is the exclusive producer of the record, and he also receives the image credit of the official video, “Shot By: Dwayne Skerrit”. The record is produced at Turnt up Tv Studio, whose booking address appears in the same description.

Does the credit roll name people already documented on this site?

Yes, two of them, and they are checked against the documents. Keith Goddard, credited on bass, is the bassist of WCK: our Earlson Matthew profile lists him in that post in both of the rosters of the band it publishes. And the mixing and mastering are credited to Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing: Imperial Publishing is the studio of Cornell Phillip, the founding keyboardist of WCK, whose profile this site publishes under the Cornell spelling, the Cornel spelling of the description being the variant that profile already flags. By contrast, no link between Brockshot and the Earlson Matthew file exists in the pages of this site: the word Brockshot does not appear there, and the neighbouring word, Backshot, is the title of another track there.

Does Bad Gyal Shyanne have other records or verified official accounts?

No other record was verified during this research, carried out on October 20, 2026: no single, no feature, no opened artist page on a streaming platform. No personal official account was opened and confirmed; the only contact published on the page of the record is that of the studio, [email protected], with its two telephone numbers. This profile states that openly and will be completed if a new primary source appears.

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