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Edday: the bouyon travelling between Dominica, Guadeloupe and Roseau

Published October 20, 2026

Edday is a bouyon artist whose name circulates between two presentations that this profile does not merge. ZoukJam, in its Zouk Book, presents him as a bouyon artist originally from Dominica, influenced by WCK and by Triple Kay Band. The official World Creole Music Festival 2026 release, published in Roseau on August 19, 2026, groups him instead with the Guadeloupe names, alongside Les Aiglons and Jean-Marc Ferdinand. Between those two readings, one solid fact brings everyone together: according to the published festival guides, notably writeups24 and Sweet TNT, Edday plays Night 2 of WCMF 2026, on Saturday, October 24, 2026, in Roseau. And one track sums up his ambition: “Bouyon All the Way”, recorded with Jamaican dancehall star Mr. Vegas.

Who Edday is: one bouyon artist, two presentations

The first presentation is ZoukJam. Its Zouk Book gives Edday a page and describes him as a notable artist in the bouyon genre, originally from Dominica. The page says he began his musical career at a time when bouyon was evolving, and that he was influenced by the pioneering artists of the genre, notably WCK, for Windward Caribbean Kulture, and Triple Kay Band, two iconic Dominican bands. That lineage matters: it places Edday in the direct line of the bouyon born in Roseau, not in a late copy from elsewhere.

The second presentation is the festival own. In the official WCMF 2026 release, the wider Caribbean and Creole lineup cites, for Guadeloupe, Les Aiglons, Jean-Marc Ferdinand and Edday. The release does not say Edday was born in Guadeloupe: it groups him with the Guadeloupe names on the programme. For a bouyon artist, that double reading is almost a biography in itself. Bouyon was born in Dominica, it grew in Guadeloupe and Martinique where it was also called jump up, and its artists now live in that permanent circulation between islands.

This profile therefore chooses precision over a quick label. When a source speaks, it is named. ZoukJam states the Dominican origin. The festival release states the Guadeloupe grouping of the 2026 programme. None of the sources consulted gives a birth date, a hometown or a full family name published as an official identity, and this profile invents none. The songwriting credits of his tracks do show one name: ELIEZER VANEROT, credited as a songwriter on “Bouyon All the Way”, on “Bay kou moto la” and on “Sco pa tu manaa”, according to the Shazam pages of those tracks. That is a credit, reported as such, not a civil record.

What the sources do agree on is the artistic profile. ZoukJam speaks of an energetic style and captivating performances, catchy songs and often humorous or social lyrics, reflecting the daily life and challenges of young people from Dominica and the Caribbean in general. The same text underlines his ability to blend different musical styles and to innovate in his compositions, and his collaborations with artists and groups from other Caribbean islands. That is exactly the portrait his verified catalogue draws, track by track, in the sections that follow.

The roots: WCK, Triple Kay and a bouyon in evolution

Understanding Edday starts with understanding the moment when he arrives. ZoukJam places the start of his career in a period when bouyon was evolving. The bouyon created by WCK in Roseau in 1988, by fusing cadence-lypso and jing ping with electronic keyboards and drum machines, had already produced its great years of dominance in Dominica in the 1990s, then its offshoots: bouyon gwada in Guadeloupe, and bouyon soca, the offshoot from Dominica which this site, on the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a participant of the era, records as started by Dada in 2003 in Dominica, before Triple Kay popularised it.

In that landscape, the two influences named by ZoukJam each carry a precise meaning. WCK stands for the foundation: the original recipe, the Creole soup where everything is mixed. Triple Kay, later Triple Kay International, stands for the generation of the great Dominican stages of the 2000s and the relay of bouyon soca towards audiences across the whole Caribbean. An artist influenced by those two names therefore claims both the origin and the stage that carried the genre off the island. Find the full frame in our history of bouyon.

That double lineage explains the place of Edday in the chain this site documents. He does not belong to the founding generation, and he does not claim to. He belongs to the generation that received bouyon as a living inheritance, with its bands, its carnivals and its offshoots, and that must find it new stages: the regional festivals, the dancehall collaborations, the platforms. When ZoukJam writes that he has inspired young artists to take up the genre, the text places him in turn in a relay position, between the pioneers he cites and the next wave watching him.

It is also worth noting what that presentation does not contain: no royal title, no crown. On this site, artist titles are always attributed, never stated as facts, because they are subjective. For Edday, the sources consulted report no nickname of that kind. His public identity rests on three verifiable elements: a name, Edday, a genre, bouyon, and a catalogue of tracks and stages that the following sections detail without inflation.

The early catalogue: “Bay kou moto la”, “Sco pa tu manaa”, “Ô Sé fanm la”, “Shaka Shaka”

The verified catalogue of Edday starts long before WCMF 2026. The Shazam page of “Bay kou moto la” gives a release on June 24, 2019, on the Jaiye Urban label, as a single. Edday is the performer, and ELIEZER VANEROT is credited as songwriter. A Creole title, an urban label, a recurring songwriter signature: by 2019, the pieces of the profile are already in place. The same catalogue holds “Sco pa tu manaa”, released on November 14, 2019, also on Jaiye Urban, with the language listed as French by Shazam, and credits shared between Christophe Démocrite as composer and eddy ELIEZER VANEROT as songwriter and performer.

Two more tracks complete that first block, with no release date published in the sources consulted, and this profile therefore assigns them none. “Ô Sé fanm la” credits ELIEZER VANEROT as songwriter, with Christophe Démocrite as composer and Jaiye Music Publishing, and its official video is produced by Jdmo according to the title of the video referenced by Shazam. “Shaka Shaka” credits Edday as performer and songwriter, with Steeve Fleret as composer. Those sober, verifiable credits describe an artist who writes, who works with identified composers and who releases inside the label circuit of the Francophone bouyon and shatta scene of the French Antilles.

That first catalogue helps explain the second presentation of Edday, the festival programme one. Creole and French titles, a label such as Jaiye Urban, collaborations with composers of the Francophone scene: the work of Edday has circulated for years inside the Francophone space of bouyon, the Guadeloupe and Martinique space, while keeping the Dominican lineage ZoukJam attributes to him. The two presentations therefore do not necessarily contradict each other: they describe the two shores of one career, the origin and the playing field.

For a listener discovering Edday through WCMF 2026, those early tracks are the right starting point. They show the artist before the big Roseau stage, in the format where Francophone bouyon is built: short singles, Creole hooks designed for the fete and for local radio, and a consistently signed writing. They appear in the structured data of this page, alongside the more recent tracks, to form the official listening path of the profile.

The collaborations: Carlyn XP, Drex and Kevni, Pinpin OSP and DJ Chimik

The second trait of the catalogue of Edday, after the writing, is collaboration. ZoukJam already underlined it in its portrait: Edday has collaborated with many artists and groups, not only from Dominica, but also from other Caribbean islands. The verified track pages give precise names to that general statement. “Foreigner” pairs him with Carlyn XP, a Dominican artist, with songwriting credits for Carlyn Xavier-Phillip and Cornell Phillip according to Shazam. “Si Manman’w té sav” pairs him with Drex and Kevni, with a production by Little Micke according to the title of the official video referenced, and credits shared between Little Micke, Pierre-Emmanuel N’Kom, sandy kevin TEL-AGNESA, eddy ELIEZER VANEROT and Xavier Odacre.

The most recent collaboration of that block before the big track with Mr. Vegas is “Make it pop”, with Pinpin OSP, released on November 2, 2023 on the VGM PRODUCT label, as a single, according to Shazam. Edday is performer and songwriter there, with Luchshiy as composer and songwriting credits shared with Brian LOMBA and Corane Vincent. Pinpin OSP belongs to the Francophone bouyon and shatta scene that Guadeloupe audiences know well: that duet anchors Edday, once again, in the Dominica and French Antilles circulation that structures his career.

To those studio tracks add a mix trace that matters for DJs: the Soca Podcast tracklists, published on Podbay and Listen Notes, list “Dj Chimik x Edday” with the track “Changer”, in a programme of Dominican and Antillean bouyon that also features “Mr. Vegas X Edday” with “Bouyon All The Way”. A presence in specialised mix tracklists is not an official chart, and this profile presents it for what it is: the sign that the tracks of Edday circulate in the selections bouyon DJs actually play, between tracks by Asa Bantan, Trilla-G and Triple Kay.

Taken together, those collaborations draw a method. Edday does not build his visibility alone: he records with Dominica, with Carlyn XP, with the Francophone scene, with Pinpin OSP, and he lets DJs carry his tracks into the mixes. That is the working method of the whole current bouyon generation, and it prepares the next step, the most visible of his catalogue: a track with a Jamaican dancehall star, carrying the name of the genre in its very title.

“Bouyon All the Way”: Edday with Mr. Vegas

“Bouyon All the Way” is the central track of the Edday record. The Shazam page of the track gives the facts: performers Mr. Vegas and Edday, released on January 26, 2024, on the MV Music label, as part of the Bouyon All Da Way EP. Mr. Vegas is one of the historic voices of Jamaican dancehall, known worldwide since the late 1990s. Seeing his name beside that of Edday on a track literally called Bouyon All the Way is an event for the genre: the word bouyon, born in Roseau, becomes the title of a collaboration carried by a Jamaican star label.

The songwriting credits published by Shazam deserve a full reading, because they show the making of the track: Clifford Smith, who is the legal name of Mr. Vegas, Cornell Phillip, Jervon Henderson, Alvin Bruny, Naomi Green and ELIEZER VANEROT. Six songwriters, including the recurring name of the Edday credits. The track is therefore not a simple guest pose on someone else record: Edday appears there as performer and as credited songwriter, alongside the Mr. Vegas team. On this site, where credits matter as much as hooks, that detail is the most concrete proof of the level at which Edday works.

The track also says something about the bouyon moment. In 2024, the genre is living its second life: the French Antilles carry it in the dances and on social media, Dominica defends its origin, and collaborations with dancehall and soca multiply. A track like “Bouyon All the Way” works as a declaration of belonging as much as a fete record. It announces, to an audience that knows Mr. Vegas but not necessarily Roseau, that bouyon is a musical address in its own right, with artists able to hold a duet with a Jamaican star.

To discover Edday, this profile therefore recommends starting here, then going down to the 2019 singles and the Francophone collaborations. The full path is in our bouyon playlist. And for readers who like the traces other profiles miss: in an interview published by VP Records, the Peer to Peer series with Emma Mathurine, Edday is named among the sounds of Dominica listened to at home, alongside Asa Bantan, Signal Band, Triple Kay, Carlyn XP and Reo. Being named, in a label conversation, among the reference sounds of his island is a quiet but real form of recognition.

St Maarten 2025: the first festival dedicated entirely to bouyon

Before Roseau 2026, Edday already played a historic stage for the genre. In May 2025, Black Island Girl reports the Strictly the Best Festival, Bouyon Edition, at Lotterie Farm in St. Maarten, organised by Two Brothers Entertainment: the island first festival dedicated entirely to bouyon music, with more than 5,000 people according to the report. Edday appears among the billed artists, alongside Pudaz, Litle Boy, Quandan, Freddy, Reo, Nice, Kenny G, Trilla G, Trixx, Unstoppable Shax and Khallion, as well as local bands T.G. Band and Turrxxdem Band and DJs from St. Maarten and abroad.

The report describes an event that goes beyond a concert: rain briefly threatened the evening and people danced in the rain, the organisers speak of the beginning of something bigger for the genre and the region, and the closing set by Mr Ridge, Bouyon Artist of the Year, ended with all the bouyon artists present coming back on stage in a gesture of solidarity. The reported line from Mr Ridge sums up the stake: bouyon is no longer just a Dominica thing, it is bigger now. Edday was part of that family photograph, in the literal sense: he was on the artist list of that first edition.

That St. Maarten presence explains the trajectory of Edday better than any speech. The bouyon of 2025 travels: it fills an entire festival on an island that is neither Dominica nor Guadeloupe, in front of a regional audience. The artists who make that trip are the ones promoters identify as the carrying faces of the genre. Appearing there, alongside the generation of Reo and Trilla G and pillars like Pudaz, places Edday in the touring troupe of current bouyon, the one carrying the genre from stage to stage while the debates about its origin continue.

The logical sequel to St. Maarten is Roseau. An artist who played the first edition of a festival entirely dedicated to bouyon in 2025 and who enters the programme of the biggest Creole festival of Dominica the following year follows a readable upward curve. This profile does not decree it: two verified billings do, a year apart, on two major regional stages for the genre.

WCMF 2026: Night 2 on Saturday, October 24 in Roseau

The central fact of the Edday year 2026 is his presence at the World Creole Music Festival. According to the published festival guides, notably writeups24 and Sweet TNT, Night 2, on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, brings together Ne-Yo, Alkaline, Tabou Combo, Asa Bantan, V’ghn, Trilla G, Full Blown, Extasy Band, Reo, Edday, DYP, Imran Nerdy, Sedale, Shemmy J, Tally Boy, Hollywood HP and Andrew. Writeups24 dates the 26th edition of the festival from October 23 to 25, 2026, during the Independence season of Dominica, under the theme Pulsating Rhythms, from the official Dominica Festivals post.

It is worth measuring what that night means for a bouyon artist. WCMF is the great Creole showcase of Dominica, the stage where the island presents its music to the world, in front of international headliners. Night 2 is presented by Sweet TNT as the night with the broadest crossover of the festival, combining international R and B, dancehall, and Haitian, Grenadian, Trinidadian, Saint Lucian, Guadeloupean and Dominican sounds. Edday appears there in the bouyon and Caribbean part of the programme, on the same night as Asa Bantan, widely nicknamed the King of Bouyon, and Reo, presented as the Prince of Bouyon. Two attributed titles that this site reports with their attributions, and one stage for three generations of the genre.

The grouping of the official release takes its full meaning here. By placing Edday with the Guadeloupe names, the festival presents him to the audience as one of the Francophone faces of the night, in a programme where Guadeloupe also counts Les Aiglons and Jean-Marc Ferdinand on Sunday. For audiences in Pointe-à-Pitre, Fort-de-France and France who follow bouyon in French, Edday is therefore one of the natural entry points of Night 2: an artist whose catalogue holds Creole and French titles, released by labels of the Francophone scene, stepping onto the biggest stage in Roseau.

Bouyon Shattaz documents that night as a chain moment, not as an isolated poster. On the same stage, the same evening: the Grand Bay pillar, the international next wave of Reo, and Edday, the artist of the two shores. To follow that news and hear the tracks cited in this profile, find the site bouyon playlist and the profiles of Asa Bantan and Reo. The place of Edday in bouyon can be summed up this way: a written and collaborative catalogue, a duet with Mr. Vegas carrying the name of the genre, a historic first in St. Maarten, and the big Saturday night in Roseau in 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Where is Edday from?

The sources consulted do not give a single presentation. ZoukJam, in its Zouk Book, presents Edday as a bouyon artist originally from Dominica, influenced by WCK and Triple Kay Band. The official WCMF 2026 release groups him with the Guadeloupe names, alongside Les Aiglons and Jean-Marc Ferdinand. This profile reports both presentations with their sources, without choosing one as an established fact.

What is the best known track by Edday?

The central track of his verified record is “Bouyon All the Way”, with Mr. Vegas, released on January 26, 2024 on the MV Music label, in the Bouyon All Da Way EP, according to Shazam. Edday is performer and credited songwriter there, under the name ELIEZER VANEROT, alongside Clifford Smith, the legal name of Mr. Vegas, and four other songwriters.

What are the early tracks of Edday?

His verified catalogue holds “Bay kou moto la”, released on June 24, 2019 on Jaiye Urban, and “Sco pa tu manaa”, released on November 14, 2019 on the same label, with the language listed as French by Shazam. The catalogue also holds “Ô Sé fanm la” and “Shaka Shaka”, with no release date published in the sources consulted.

Does Edday play WCMF 2026?

Yes, according to the published guides of the World Creole Music Festival 2026, notably writeups24 and Sweet TNT, Edday plays Night 2, on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, on the same night as Ne-Yo, Alkaline, Asa Bantan, Reo and Trilla G.

Which artists has Edday collaborated with?

His verified catalogue holds “Foreigner” with Carlyn XP, “Si Manman’w té sav” with Drex and Kevni, “Make it pop” with Pinpin OSP, released on November 2, 2023, “Changer” with Dj Chimik, listed in the Soca Podcast tracklists, and “Bouyon All the Way” with Mr. Vegas. ZoukJam underlines in general terms his collaborations with artists from several Caribbean islands.

Has Edday played a festival dedicated entirely to bouyon?

Yes. In May 2025, according to Black Island Girl, Edday was among the artists of the Strictly the Best Festival, Bouyon Edition, at Lotterie Farm in St. Maarten, presented as the island first festival dedicated entirely to bouyon, with more than 5,000 people. He shared the bill with Pudaz, Reo, Trilla G and others, and the Mr Ridge closing set brought all the bouyon artists present back on stage.

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