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Bernard Gumbs (Wizito): a songwriter name behind three fast records

Published October 20, 2026

Bernard Gumbs is a bouyon artist who records as Wizito. His full name does not appear on posters or in published interviews this profile could verify: it appears where credit matters most, in the songwriter credits of his records. “Payé”, in 2023, credits him as a songwriter under the form Bernard Robert Gumbs. “Love Me”, in 2024, and “TunTun”, in 2025, credit him as Bernard Gumbs. A published St Maarten Carnival 2024 mix placed “Love Me” among the local releases for that carnival, which ties Wizito to the bouyon and soca circuit of Saint Martin. This profile is deliberately an emerging and thin profile: three verified records, one label, one circuit, and blanks written as blanks, rather than an invented biography.

Who Bernard Gumbs is: Wizito, a stage name, a songwriter name

Bernard Gumbs records as Wizito. The link between the two names is not a deduction by this site: it is published in the credits of the records themselves. On “Love Me”, Shazam credits Bernard Gumbs as songwriter for a record performed by Wizito. On “TunTun”, Bernard Gumbs is credited both as a harmony vocalist and as a songwriter, alongside Ti Al. On “Payé”, the songwriter credit gives the long form of the name: Bernard Robert Gumbs. Three records, three published credits, one same path: the man is called Bernard Gumbs, with Robert published in the earliest credit, and he sings and writes as Wizito.

That credit first starting point already says what kind of artist this is. Wizito has, in the sources consulted, no presentation interview, no official biography page and no press pack. His public identity sits in his releases, his label and the names who work with him. In bouyon and in the neighbouring carnival musics, many careers begin exactly like that: a songwriter singer places fast records in the carnival circuit, DJs pick them up in their mixes, and the name travels before the biography follows. This profile documents that stage, without dressing it up as consecration.

The name also has to be separated from its catalogue neighbours, because platforms mix everything together. The producer of “Love Me” is called Sylvio Benjamin. That surname, Benjamin, is also the surname of Benji, real name Wayne Benjamin, the Dominican singer with Triple Kay who has his own page on this site. No source consulted links Sylvio Benjamin to Wayne Benjamin, or to Wizito by any family or band tie. This profile cites Sylvio Benjamin only for his published production credit on “Love Me”, and builds no link out of a shared surname. Credit is a matter of exact names, not resemblances.

In the same way, the label and circle on the Wizito releases, YMW Tolly Boys, must not be confused with Tallyboy, the Saint Lucia artist who has his own page on this site. Tolly Boys, with an o, is the name published on the Wizito releases and on the Tolly Boy’s YMW releases. Tallyboy, with an a, is another artist, from another island, with another catalogue. The next section details that circle for what it is in the sources: a Caribbean working environment around the name Youry, and not a label this site would attach to an artist who does not appear on it.

The YMW Tolly Boys circle: Youry, a label, carnival records

The three verified Wizito records come out under the same label name: YMW Tolly Boys, also written YMW TOLLY BOYS in capitals on some listings. “Payé” was released by YMW Tolly Boys on February 8, 2023, “Love Me” by YMW TOLLY BOYS on February 14, 2024, and “TunTun” by YMW TOLLY BOYS on August 1, 2025. That consistency across three years matters for an emerging artist: it shows a stable release frame, not three records scattered under three different names. It is inside that frame that the name Wizito publicly exists.

The name that returns at the centre of that circle is Youry. “Payé” is a Wizito record featuring Youry Ymw. Around that same environment, the Shazam listings for Tolly Boy’s YMW credit Youry Fleming, also written Fleming Youry, as songwriter on records such as “Get on Bad”, with Ciio and King Kembe, released on December 30, 2018, and “GoDownGoDown”. This profile cites those records only as context for the YMW Tolly Boys circle: they document the published activity of the entourage of Wizito, they are not Wizito records and they do not appear in his structured data. The distinction is the same everywhere on this site: a published feature counts as a fact, a label neighbourhood does not count as a catalogue.

King Kembe, present on “Get on Bad”, is one of the names of the Saint Martin carnival circuit in the mix sources consulted, where his name returns with records presented as local releases for that carnival. That neighbourhood does not prove an origin for Wizito, and this profile does not claim one. It does draw a coherent environment: fast records, features between artists of the same circle, a home label, and circulation through carnival mixes. That is exactly the kind of ecosystem where bouyon and fast soca live on the small northern Caribbean islands, between Dominica, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin and the Virgin Islands.

To place that circuit in the geography of this site, our bouyon in Saint Martin page tells the place of the island in the circulation of the genre, between the French Antilles and the English speaking Caribbean. Wizito belongs in that circulation through one precise fact, detailed in the “Love Me” section: a published St Maarten Carnival 2024 mix kept his record among the local releases. No more, no less. It is that fact, attributed to its source, that allows this profile to tie Wizito to Saint Martin, and it is the only geographic tie the record authorises.

Payé, Love Me, TunTun: the three verified Wizito records, by an emerging bouyon artist

The first verified record is “Payé”, by Wizito featuring Youry Ymw, released on February 8, 2023, by YMW Tolly Boys, as a single. Shazam classes it as World and gives it a tempo of 170 BPM. That tempo deserves the attention of a bouyon reader: 170 beats per minute is the territory of the fastest carnival records, that of bouyon and power soca, built for the road and for the moving fete, far from quiet listening tempos. The songwriter credit on the record is given to Bernard Robert Gumbs. It is therefore through a fast February record, in the middle of the Caribbean carnival season, and through a songwriter credit under his full name, that Wizito enters the record of this site.

The second record is “Love Me”, released on February 14, 2024, Valentine Day, by YMW TOLLY BOYS, as a single. Shazam also classes it as World, with a tempo of 157 BPM, still a fast party tempo. The published credits give Bernard Gumbs as songwriter and Sylvio Benjamin as producer. The version of the record that travels in mixes is presented as “Love Me (Dirty)” in the tracklist of the Get Familiar mix devoted to local releases for St Maarten Carnival 2024, under the form Wizito YMW. This profile reports that mix listing for what it is: the published trace of a real circulation of the record in the carnival DJ circuit, which is, for an emerging artist, a form of publication as concrete as a platform listing.

The third record is “TunTun”, by Wizito featuring Ti Al and Dj Chimik, released on August 1, 2025, by YMW TOLLY BOYS. Shazam gives it a tempo of 164 BPM and full credits: Ti Al and Bernard Gumbs on harmony vocals, Ti Al and Bernard Gumbs as songwriters, and Dj Chimik as producer. That record shows a readable evolution inside the little material available: Wizito is no longer only the credited songwriter of a record under his name, he is also credited as a harmony voice alongside another singer, on a record produced by a named DJ. The 2023, 2024, 2025 path thus draws a regular presence, one record a year in the verified sources, inside the same label.

Three records is little, and this profile does not stretch it. No Wizito album is documented in the sources consulted, no other single is claimed without a checkable listing, and no listening figure is printed, for lack of a stable source to cite. On the other hand, those three records each have a date, a label, a tempo and published credits. For an emerging carnival music artist, that is a real base: it is enough to document an existence, a circle and a direction, and it leaves what follows open. The three records are listed in the structured data of this page and can be looked for in our bouyon playlist, among the new releases Bouyon Shattaz follows across the northern Caribbean.

Saint Martin and the northern carnival circuit: the documented place of Wizito

The only published trace that places a Wizito record in a precise territory comes from the Get Familiar mix, carried via Ivy.fm. The mix is presented, in its publication text, as featuring some of the local releases for St Maarten Carnival 2024. Its tracklist includes “Love Me” under the form Wizito YMW, among names of the same circuit, such as King Kembe, one of whose records proclaims his belonging to SXM, the code for Saint Martin, and the bands and artists of neighbouring carnivals. This profile therefore attributes the Saint Martin tie exactly as its source presents it: a Wizito record kept in a selection of local releases for St Maarten Carnival 2024.

Saint Martin is an island shared between a French part, Saint-Martin, and a Dutch part, Sint Maarten, or St Maarten in English. Its carnival belongs to the same world as Dominica carnival: fast records released for the season, bands and DJs who travel between islands, and audiences who speak French, English and Creole. Dominican bouyon has travelled there for a long time, as it travels to Guadeloupe and Martinique under the name jump up. A songwriter singer whose record enters the local selection of St Maarten Carnival therefore works in the natural basin of bouyon, even when platforms class his record in the catch all World category.

That tie has a limit that has to be written. No source consulted says that Bernard Gumbs was born in Saint Martin, that he lives there, or that he claims the island as his origin. This profile therefore prints no personal origin for Wizito. It says only, because a published source shows it, that his music circulated as a local release of St Maarten Carnival in 2024. For many artists from small islands, it is through the carnival that plays them, more than through an official biography, that a musical address is built. That of Wizito, in the present state of the record, is Saint Martin through his circuit, with no biography attached.

That position in the northern Caribbean also sheds light on the sound of the three records. Published tempos of 157, 164 and 170 BPM place Wizito in the zone of the fast carnival musics this site documents from Dominican bouyon soca to the Saint Lucia and Saint Martin scenes. Our bouyon soca page recalls that this branch, started by Dada in Dominica in 2003 according to the signed testimony of Smokiller, became the travelling form of bouyon across the English speaking Caribbean and the French Antilles. Wizito belongs to the generation that inherits that circulation: short, fast records, built for mixes and carnival roads, released by home labels from island to island.

Why Bernard Gumbs matters, and what this profile does not yet know

Bernard Gumbs matters, at his emerging scale, because he shows how bouyon and its neighbouring musics are made today in the northern Caribbean. No big machine, no documented international campaign, but a songwriter who writes his records under his full name, a home label that returns on every release, a named producer on “Love Me”, a producer DJ and a second singer on “TunTun”, and a record picked up by a carnival mix. That is the real infrastructure of island scenes: credits, circles and seasons. Documenting that level, accurately, is part of the work of this site, on the same footing as the profiles of founders such as WCK or stars such as Asa Bantan.

He also matters as a case of method. His record holds in three platform listings and one mix tracklist. An inflated profile could have invented a birth town, a family story, figures and a handful of records borrowed from namesakes, starting with the other productions of the Tolly Boys circle. This profile does the opposite: it separates the Wizito records from the records of his entourage, it separates Tolly Boys from Tallyboy, it separates Sylvio Benjamin from Wayne Benjamin, and it prints the full name in the two forms the credits publish, Bernard Gumbs and Bernard Robert Gumbs. If a single reader avoids a confusion thanks to those distinctions, the page has done its work.

The blanks in the record are therefore written here, in conclusion, rather than filled. The verified sources do not give the home community or island of birth of Bernard Gumbs, his date of birth, a confirmed official social account, or an album. It is not known whether Wizito is preparing further records after “TunTun”, released in August 2025. Nor is it known how the artist himself presents his genre, bouyon, soca or another label, since no published interview was found during this research. This profile classes him as an emerging bouyon artist because Bouyon Shattaz follows him in that perimeter and his records circulate in the bouyon and carnival circuit documented here, while reporting that the platforms class his records as World.

In the meantime, listening holds in three records and follows their order. Start with “Payé”, with Youry Ymw, for the songwriter credit under the full name and the fastest tempo in the record. Continue with “Love Me”, the St Maarten Carnival 2024 record, produced by Sylvio Benjamin. Finish with “TunTun”, with Ti Al and Dj Chimik, the most recent and the best credited of the three. Then keep the name in your ear in the carnival mixes of the northern Caribbean: it is there, more than on official pages, that the next trace of Bernard Gumbs, known as Wizito, is most likely to appear.

Frequently asked questions

What is the full name of Wizito?

Wizito is the stage name of Bernard Gumbs. The songwriter credit on “Payé”, released in 2023, gives the long form Bernard Robert Gumbs. The credits on “Love Me”, in 2024, and “TunTun”, in 2025, give Bernard Gumbs. This site prints both forms exactly as the credits publish them.

Where does Bernard Gumbs, known as Wizito, come from?

No verified source consulted for this profile gives his island or community of birth. The only published geographic tie is musical: the Get Familiar mix, presented as gathering local releases for St Maarten Carnival 2024, kept his record “Love Me” under the form Wizito YMW. This site therefore ties Wizito to the Saint Martin circuit through that mix, without claiming a personal origin.

Which Wizito records are verified?

Three records are documented by published listings: “Payé”, with Youry Ymw, released on February 8, 2023, by YMW Tolly Boys, “Love Me”, released on February 14, 2024, by YMW TOLLY BOYS, and “TunTun”, with Ti Al and Dj Chimik, released on August 1, 2025, by YMW TOLLY BOYS. All three are fast records, from 157 to 170 BPM according to Shazam, which places them in the territory of carnival musics and bouyon.

Are YMW Tolly Boys and Tallyboy the same thing?

No. YMW Tolly Boys, with an o, is the label published on the Wizito records and the circle of Tolly Boy’s YMW, around Youry Fleming. Tallyboy, with an a, is a different artist, from Saint Lucia, who has his own page on this site. The names look alike, they name neither the same person nor the same catalogue.

Who produced the Wizito records?

According to the credits published by Shazam, “Love Me” was produced by Sylvio Benjamin, and “TunTun” was produced by Dj Chimik, who is also a featured artist on the record. No producer is named in the consulted listing for “Payé”, whose published credit is the songwriter credit, Bernard Robert Gumbs.

Is Sylvio Benjamin related to Benji, of Triple Kay?

No source consulted says so. Sylvio Benjamin is credited as producer of “Love Me” by Wizito. Benji, real name Wayne Benjamin, is the Dominican singer with Triple Kay. The surname is the same, but no family, band or working link between them is published, so this site claims none.

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