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Faithii: the Bouyon Barbie who took the Female Artist of the Year title

Published October 20, 2026

Faithii is a bouyon singer from Dominica, known as Bouyon Barbie, and that name is not a social media nickname: it is the name of her label, Bouyon Barbie Music, the name her singles carry, and the name under which the Dominica Music Awards crowned her Female Artist of the Year. In a single documented release year, 2024, she published “Superstar” and “No Money No Honey”, sang on Reo “I Know Y” with Kenny G, then followed with the World Creole Music Festival 2025 stage and the national title in January 2026. This profile follows that short but dense path, with records and dates to support it, and also states what the public record does not yet hold: no biography, no confirmed full name, and no verified official account.

Who Faithii is: Bouyon Barbie, a label in her name

Faithii presents herself to the public under a double name. The first is her artist name, with the double i ending that makes it recognisable in DJ tracklists. The second is Bouyon Barbie, and it is documented in three independent ways. Her 2024 singles come out on a label named Bouyon Barbie Music. The Dominica Music Awards finalist lists name her “Bouyon Barbie Faithii”, in two categories. And the official results of those same awards, published by Soca News and by Black Island Girl, crown her under that full name: Female Artist of the Year.

What the record does not hold is just as clear, and this profile states it from the start. No biography published by a reliable source gives her birthplace, her childhood path or her stage beginnings before 2024. A full name circulates in an unverified aggregator, with no confirmation in platform credits or in the press: it is therefore not printed here. No official social account could be verified by opening it during the research, so this page links to no profile. For now, Faithii is an artist documented by her releases, her stages and her award, not by a life story.

That documentation nevertheless has a clear geography: Dominica. Her collaborations place her at the centre of the new bouyon generation of Roseau, alongside Reo, the artist regional press presents as the fresh prince of bouyon, and Kenny G, a pillar of the riddims of the same scene. Her confirmed stages are the two biggest national stages: the World Creole Music Festival at Windsor Park in Roseau, and Ti Vilaj Kweyol at the Botanic Gardens. And her award is the national award of Dominican music. Everything verifiable about Faithii ties her to the island that created bouyon.

2024: three records, one summer and one autumn at bouyon tempo

Faithii verified discography begins as a guest, and the record deserves a pause. On June 20, 2024, Reo released “I know y (kenny g) (feat. Faithii)” on his Reo music Ent. label: a single where Faithii sings as featured artist, with a songwriting credit in the name of Dario Sebastien Yankey, Reo documented civil name in the platform credits. The record then travels through DJ sets under neighbouring forms, “I Know Why” or “IKY”, credited to Reo, Kenny G and Faithii, and it is under that form that it entered, a year and a half later, the Dominica Music Awards nominations. Note the tempo published by the platform: 160 BPM, the cruising speed of modern bouyon.

On August 22, 2024, Faithii released her first documented single in her own name: “SUPERSTAR”, on Bouyon Barbie Music, with the writing credit in her name alone. The title states the programme: a declaration of identity before the consecration, sung over the same 160 BPM rhythmic frame. Two months later, on October 11, 2024, in the middle of Independence and World Creole Music Festival season, she released “No Money No Honey”, again on Bouyon Barbie Music, again at 160 BPM. The tracklists of the bouyon mixes circulating as podcasts credit it “Faithii x Reo”, a sign that the record is worked and carried by the DJs of the scene as a duo record, even though the official release carries it in Faithii name alone.

Three records, then, and not one more in the verified record: no album, no documented EP, no 2025 release found on the platforms consulted. That brevity does not prevent density. In four months of 2024, Faithii laid down the three pieces that still carry her name in the sets: the feature with Reo and Kenny G, the affirmation “SUPERSTAR”, and the season record “No Money No Honey”. It is on that short base that the two stages and the award that make the rest of this profile were then played. To hear these records in context, our bouyon playlist mixes the new Dominican releases followed by Bouyon Shattaz.

The detail the platforms miss: filed as reggae, played as bouyon

There is a technical fact, verifiable in two clicks, that almost no profile points out: on Shazam, the reference listing for Faithii records, all three documented records are filed under the genre “Reggae”. “SUPERSTAR”: reggae. “No Money No Honey”: reggae. “I know y”: reggae. Yet nothing in the real circulation of these records resembles reggae: they run at 160 BPM, they live in the bouyon mixes of DJs from Dominica and the Antilles, they are sung by artists of the Roseau bouyon scene and crowned by the awards of that same scene.

That wrong filing is not a librarian detail. It says something about the place of bouyon in world databases: a genre born in Dominica in the late 1980s, which became the soundtrack of carnivals on several islands, remains poorly enough identified by the platforms for its own artists to be filed under the best known neighbouring genre. The same credit problem runs through the history of the genre, from the origin of bouyon soca, started in 2003 by Dada according to the signed testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis published on our bouyon soca page, to the official spelling “Wrecketeng”, which the internet often writes “reketeng” by mistake.

For Faithii, the consequence is concrete: a listener who discovers “No Money No Honey” through its platform listing receives a label that names neither her island, nor her genre, nor her scene. This profile does the opposite work: it names bouyon, Dominica and the precise generation these records belong to, that of Reo, Kenny G, Trilla G and the producers gathered around the Roseau stages. That is also why the pages of this site attach every verified record to the artist structured data, under its true genre.

The national stage: the World Creole Music Festival 2025

The stage consecration arrived in the autumn of 2025. The World Creole Music Festival, the festival created in 1997 at Windsor Park in Roseau and nicknamed the festival that never sleeps, held its twenty fifth edition from October 24 to 26, 2025, under the theme of the global echoes of the Nature Island. The official programme, announced on July 4, 2025 and carried by regional press, placed Faithii on the second night, Saturday October 25, 2025: the night headlined in the coverage by Vybz Kartel performance, with on the same bill Spice, Asa Bantan, Gordon Henderson, Joe Dwet File, Kenny G, WCK, First Serenade, Ophelia, Pudaz, Quan, Ridge, Shanika, Ebony Empress, DJ MJ and Kes The Band.

Reading that bill closely states Faithii position at that moment of her career. She appears in it among the Dominican names of a night dominated by Jamaican and Trinidadian headliners, alongside the pioneers WCK and First Serenade and the leading values of her own generation. A year after her first single in her own name, she was therefore already on the biggest stage of her island, in the week that concentrates all the attention of Creole music. No official recording of her performance was found during the research for this profile, and this profile therefore does not describe a concert it cannot verify: it documents the billing, which is a fact, and stops there.

The next known stage step reads a year later, in the Ti Vilaj Kweyol 2026 programme: on Thursday October 22, 2026, grand finale day, Reo and Faithii are billed together at 4:26 PM at the Botanic Gardens in Roseau, on the same block as Trilla G and Prymex, before the closing by Shelly and Signal Band. The duo of “I Know Y” and “No Money No Honey” thereby becomes an official stage duo, programmed as such by the Ministry of Tourism. For an artist whose record fits in three songs, the stage path is remarkably straight: the two biggest national stages, two years in a row.

January 2026: Female Artist of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards

The heaviest fact of the record arrived on Saturday January 3, 2026. The second edition of the Dominica Music Awards was held at the InterContinental Dominica Cabrits Resort and Spa, in Portsmouth, and rewarded Dominican music in 24 categories, on a night where Signal Band took six titles, including Band of the Year and Album of the Year. In those results, published by Soca News and by Black Island Girl, the Female Artist of the Year category, sponsored by Delnagis Sports Zone, went to Bouyon Barbie Faithii.

The finalist field measures the title. The official nominees list, published before the ceremony, lined up Carlyn XP, Bouyon Barbie Faithii, Ebony Empress, AbiYah Yisrael and Joy: in other words, the direct competition included Carlyn XP, presented by regional press as the bouyon queen at the time of her solo debut at the World Creole Music Festival. Faithii also stood among the finalists of the Rising and Emerging Artist or Band of the Year category, alongside Nice, Trixx, Riddim Knockers Band, Real Reel and Trixz Migos, a category finally won by Real Reel. She therefore left the night with one major title and a double presence in the lists, for a verified discography of three records.

The same awards edition also ties her to her duo: “IKY”, by Reo, Kenny G and Faithii, stood among the nominees for Collaboration of the Year, a category won by “Someone Else” by Litleboy, Quan and Trilla G. And the night itself connects her story to the long history of the genre: the Iconic Award of the same ceremony went to producer Krishna “Dada” Lawrence, the man who, according to the signed testimony published on this site, started bouyon soca in Dominica in 2003. The crowned new generation and the honoured originator shared the same night, which sums up the state of bouyon in 2026 rather well.

What Faithii represents, and what this profile still waits for

Faithii holds a precise place in current bouyon: that of a female voice of the singles generation, in a genre historically carried by bands and by male carnival voices. Her documented path runs neither through an album nor through a long discography, but through the real mechanics of the Roseau scene in 2024 and 2025: a well placed feature with the prince of the new generation, two singles at the tempo of the genre released at the right moment of the season, rotation in DJ mixes, then the Windsor Park stage and the awards vote. It is a career built at the speed of bouyon itself, and her Female Artist of the Year title shows that the institutions of the island registered it as such.

This profile also states its gaps, because they are part of the record on October 20, 2026. No release later than October 2024 is documented on the platforms consulted, even though the stage story continues to the joint billing with Reo in October 2026: there may be unreleased records, dubplates or stage songs that the databases do not see. No confirmed full name, no official biography, no verified account to link: this page therefore links to no social profile, and its structured track list is limited to the three verified recordings, “I Know Y”, “SUPERSTAR” and “No Money No Honey”.

If a release, an official biography or a verified account appears, this profile will be completed and dated like every page on this site. In the meantime, listening starts with “SUPERSTAR”, the manifesto record, continues with “No Money No Honey”, the season record, and closes with “I Know Y”, where everything publicly began, with Reo and Kenny G. Then the bouyon playlist and our history of bouyon page place Bouyon Barbie in the full lineage, from the founding bands of Roseau to her generation.

Frequently asked questions

Why is Faithii called Bouyon Barbie?

Because that is the name she releases and is nominated under: her 2024 singles come out on the Bouyon Barbie Music label, the Dominica Music Awards lists name her “Bouyon Barbie Faithii”, and it is under that full name that she was crowned Female Artist of the Year. It is therefore not a nickname invented by social media, but her documented stage identity.

What are Faithii verified songs?

Three records are documented by platform credits: “I know y (kenny g) (feat. Faithii)” by Reo, released on June 20, 2024, where she sings as featured artist; “SUPERSTAR”, her single released on August 22, 2024 on Bouyon Barbie Music, with the writing credit in her name; and “No Money No Honey”, released on October 11, 2024 on the same label, which DJ mixes credit to Faithii x Reo. No album or EP is documented to date.

Did Faithii win at the Dominica Music Awards?

Yes. At the second edition of the Dominica Music Awards, on Saturday January 3, 2026 at the InterContinental Dominica Cabrits Resort and Spa in Portsmouth, she won the Female Artist of the Year title, ahead of a finalist field that included Carlyn XP, Ebony Empress, AbiYah Yisrael and Joy. She was also a Rising Artist finalist, and “IKY”, with Reo and Kenny G, was nominated for Collaboration of the Year.

Did Faithii perform at the World Creole Music Festival?

Yes, she stood on the official programme of the 2025 edition, the twenty fifth, at Windsor Park in Roseau: on the second night, Saturday October 25, 2025, on a night headlined in coverage by Vybz Kartel, alongside WCK, First Serenade, Kenny G, Asa Bantan and Kes The Band, according to the programme announced on July 4, 2025 and carried by regional press.

Why do platforms file Faithii as reggae when she makes bouyon?

Because platform databases identify bouyon poorly: the reference listings of her three records file them under the reggae genre, while they run at 160 BPM, circulate in the bouyon mixes of DJs and are crowned by the bouyon scene of Dominica. It is a documented case of the credit and labelling problem that touches the whole genre, born in Dominica and still badly filed by world catalogues.

When does Faithii perform with Reo in 2026?

The official Ti Vilaj Kweyol 2026 programme bills Reo and Faithii together on Thursday October 22, 2026 at 4:26 PM, at the Botanic Gardens in Roseau, grand finale day, on the same block as Trilla G and Prymex. It is the stage sequel to their joint records, “I Know Y” and “No Money No Honey”.

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