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Kevni: from Creole dancehall to the bouyon sessions of TiiTii NBA

Published October 20, 2026

Kevni is a Creole artist of the Guadeloupe dancehall and bouyon scene. He came to wider French Caribbean attention in 2019 on “Boug an mwen”, the baton passing record of Krys and Pompis, built a catalogue in French and Guadeloupean Creole released by Baby Nomore Music, then put his voice on four TiiTii NBA bouyon records in 2024. A stable writing team follows him across that whole path, the songwriter Sandy Tel-Agnesa above all, from his dancehall singles to the bouyon sessions. This profile follows that documented path, from the dancehall singles to the album “EVERYWHERE I GO”, and also states what the sources do not publish about him.

Who Kevni is: a Creole voice of the Guadeloupe scene

Kevni is a singer of the French Caribbean dancehall scene, and more precisely of the Guadeloupe circuit where dancehall, shatta and bouyon meet. He sings in French and in Guadeloupean Creole, often inside the same record, with that mix of melody and fast delivery that marks the voices of his generation. His records are released by Baby Nomore Music, the label carrying most of his documented catalogue.

A name precision is needed at the start, because search engines confuse it constantly: Kevni is not Keen’V. Keen’V is Kevin Bonnet, a singer born in Rouen in 1983, known for French dance pop hits. Kevni is a Creole artist from the French Caribbean, active on the Guadeloupe scene since the end of the 2010s, and the two men share neither a path nor an audience. This profile is only about the second one.

Kevni public record is a catalogue record, not a press record. None of the sources consulted publishes his full name, his birth date or his birthplace, and this profile does not invent them. He is documented as an artist of the Guadeloupe scene: that is the circuit in which he appears, with its artists, its writers and its labels, and those are the terms in which this profile presents him. What the platforms do publish precisely are his records, his dates, his credits and his collaborations. This portrait moves through them.

That method has one virtue: it shows a real path, unvarnished. A generational feature in 2019, dancehall singles in 2022, an album in 2024, then a noticed entry into bouyon the same year. Kevni is not a cover star; he is a worker of the Creole sound, and his record reads like that of his generation: record by record.

“Boug an mwen”: the Krys baton pass, in 2019

Kevni first big documented moment arrived on May 10, 2019, with the release of “Boug an mwen”, a Krys and Pompis record on which he is featured. Krys is one of the historic figures of Guadeloupe dancehall, active since the 2000s, from the Pointe-à-Pitre sound systems to national stages, and Pompis is one of his long time collaborators. For a young artist of the scene, being placed on a record by those two names is already a form of baptism.

Krys explained the meaning of the record in an interview with the KarukéraMent podcast #streamcaribbean. He said “Boug an mwen” pictures the link between the generations of dancehall: himself in the middle, between elders such as Daddy Yod and the generation then rising, that of Matieu White and Kevni, whom he described as the emerging generation of the dancehall scene at the time of the record. A remix then brought in Matieu White, Drexi, Lion P, Dexterman and Daddy Yod, extending that baton pass across two more generations.

Krys added in the same interview that the title itself imposed that format: he was not going to make “Boug an mwen”, my own guy, all alone in his corner. The idea was to show, in the record and in its video, that all those generations belong to the same movement and can gather around the same music. The video of the record shows them together, in ordinary situations, far from studio poses: it is that extended dancehall family picture that Krys says he prefers, and it is inside that picture that Kevni appears next to the elders.

That place in the Krys story counts for more than a simple credit. The record is not presented as a filler feature, but as the symbol of a transmission: the elder validating the newcomer, on the same track, in front of the same audience. For Kevni, “Boug an mwen” works as a public birth certificate, dated and signed by two godfathers of the Guadeloupe scene.

The record still lives in the streaming catalogues, attached to the three names. It is also the chronological starting point of this profile: before 2019, the sources consulted document no Kevni release; from 2019 on, his trace becomes regular.

The solo catalogue: from 160 BPM singles to the album EVERYWHERE I GO

On June 16, 2022, Kevni released two singles on the same day on Baby Nomore Music: “Tourne Toi” and “Mové Machin”. The platform pages class them as modern dancehall, at 160 BPM, the fast tempo of records made for dancing. An official video brings the two records together. The credits of “Tourne Toi” name ELICE Sulivan as composer and Sandy Tel-Agnesa as songwriter, a writer name that will return across Kevni whole path, up to his bouyon records.

The catalogue also holds “Ghetto Gyal”, a record sung entirely in Guadeloupean Creole, whose published lyrics tell of hustling, missing money and the loyalty of a couple that started from nothing. It is one of the pieces that best show his writing: a direct, image filled Creole, rooted in neighbourhood life, far from formulas. Music databases also reference singles such as “Entoure”, “RORO” and “Eve Kimoun” in 2022, then “MOB$TA#3” in 2023, along with an album titled “INEVITAB” dated 2023: this profile cites them as references, without inventing their content. The same databases also reference “Olaleyley”, “OG”, “Como Tu Hablas”, “MILLION CASH”, “Telephone Sone” and “MOB$TA#2” among his most listened records.

The platform technical sheets also show the range of the catalogue. Where “Tourne Toi” and “Mové Machin” run at 160 BPM, “PROFÉSÈ” comes down to 100 BPM and “À QUOI TU SERS” to 84 BPM, according to the data published by Shazam: the same artist covers the fast dance record and the slow, almost spoken piece. The platforms class his records as French language, while the lyrics move constantly between French and Creole, and it is Creole that carries the titles and the choruses, from “Tchè Mwen Malad” to “Bèl Flè”. Each step also has its picture: the official videos of “Tourne Toi” and “Mové Machin”, the one for “PROFÉSÈ”, and the one for “Si Manman’w té sav” with Drex and Edday form the visible, verifiable part of his video path.

The major step came on February 23, 2024 with the album “EVERYWHERE I GO”, released by Baby Nomore Music. Eleven tracks: “STOÏC”, “PROFÉSÈ”, “2-2” with Aknose, “BÈL FLÈ”, “IF U KNOW ME” with Poplane, “BOSS MAN”, “EVERYWHERE I GO”, “TCHÈ MWEN MALAD” with Dory, “À QUOI TU SERS”, “SHEITAN” and “CONTRARIÉTÉ”. The titles themselves tell the line of the album: Creole and French answer each other, between pride, love, faith and street life.

The album credits draw a stable team. Sandy Tel-Agnesa wrote the title track “EVERYWHERE I GO”, composed by Serbin Freddy, as she had already written “Tourne Toi” and “PROFÉSÈ”, composed by Ayobami Julius Fayemi. “À QUOI TU SERS” brings together composers Meddy Silfille, Bertrand Gene and Randy Jacobson. “PROFÉSÈ” received its own official video. Platform discographies also list an album titled “TOP BOY”. What emerges, record after record, is an album artist as much as a singles artist, rare enough in the dancehall of his generation to be underlined.

The bouyon turn: four records with TiiTii NBA in 2024

In 2024, Kevni voice entered bouyon, and it entered through the door of TiiTii NBA, one of the engines of current Guadeloupe bouyon. Four records published that year carry Kevni name as a feature: “BIG BONDA”, released as a single, “BAD MOOD”, also a single, and “C QUOI LES BAILS” and “WHAT’S POPPIN”, released on the TiiTii NBA album “HOT BOUYON VIBES”. All four are tagged bouyon 2024 in the platform catalogues.

It is no calendar accident. Bouyon, the music born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s, has become the dominant sound of the carnivals and parties of the French Antilles, where it is also called jump up. Guadeloupe dancehall artists put their voices on it more and more, and Kevni is part of that generation moving between Creole dancehall and bouyon without changing language or audience. Our history of bouyon page tells how the genre crossed the channel from Dominica to Guadeloupe.

The credits of those four bouyon records close the loop with the rest of his path. The writing of “C QUOI LES BAILS” and “WHAT’S POPPIN” is signed Sandy Tel-Agnesa, the writer already present on “Tourne Toi”, “PROFÉSÈ” and “EVERYWHERE I GO”, and the compositions are signed Pascal Peter and Terry Capitolin. In other words, Kevni does not enter bouyon as an outside guest: he arrives with his own writing team, integrated into the TiiTii NBA production machine.

The format of those records says the rest. In the platform catalogues, “BIG BONDA” runs 2 minutes 38, “C QUOI LES BAILS” 1 minute 52 and “WHAT’S POPPIN” 1 minute 51: TiiTii NBA bouyon is a music of short formats, cut for DJ blends and social media loops. Kevni voice bends to it without losing its dancehall flow, which is precisely the exercise asked of the guests of those sessions. The album “HOT BOUYON VIBES” also works as a photograph of the Guadeloupe bouyon scene of its moment, with other guests such as 1T1 on “TAM TAM”: Kevni holds two places on it, which is not the treatment given to a background name.

For a site devoted to bouyon, this is the moment that fully justifies this profile. Kevni is not only a dancehall singer next door to the genre: since 2024 he is one of the recurring guest voices of its most visible Guadeloupe productions, with four records in the same year. Find those sessions in our bouyon playlist, which follows French Antilles bouyon season after season.

The collaborations: a Creole network across two islands

Kevni path also reads through his collaborations, which draw the map of his scene. On the Guadeloupe side, the record “Si Manman’w té sav” brings him together with Drex and Edday, in an official video credited “Drexi x Kevni x Edday” and produced by Little Micke: a song about family and what mothers do not know, sung in Creole, which databases rank among his best known records. His albums also open the door to Aknose, Poplane and Dory.

On the Martinique side and beyond, music databases reference “Seule” with PON2MIK, a slower and more melancholic record, and “Pa fe rol”, tagged Shattastyle, with Natoxie, one of the known voices of Martinique dancehall: shatta, the Martinique cousin of bouyon, belongs to the same sound territory. They also reference “Medellin”, in a remix version, with MALTY 2BZ, and a record with Jmax. This profile cites those entries as database references, pending detailed credit pages.

That network says something precise about Kevni position. He is not locked into a single camp: the elders of Guadeloupe dancehall validated him in 2019, bouyon producers called him in 2024, and his collaborations touch Martinique as well as Guadeloupe. It is the typical profile of the Creole artist of his generation, whose career is built as a network, island to island and studio to studio.

One more collaboration must be added, the least visible and maybe the most important: that of the writers and composers. Sandy Tel-Agnesa writes for Kevni as she writes for TiiTii NBA; Pascal Peter composes for both worlds. In bouyon as in dancehall, songs are born in rooms where the same names return, and Kevni name has returned in those rooms since 2019.

Why Kevni matters, and the limits of the record

Kevni matters because he connects two worlds that short histories keep apart: the Creole dancehall of Guadeloupe and the bouyon that came from Dominica. His documented path shows him in 2019 with Krys, in 2022 on his own singles, in 2024 on his album and, the same year, on four TiiTii NBA bouyon records. Few artists of his generation offer such a readable trace of the move from one genre to the other, which is one of the deep movements of the current French Antilles.

The corridor runs both ways. In October 2025, the Bouyon Assembly of the World Creole Music Festival in Roseau, the biggest bouyon stage of Dominica, hosted two guests from Guadeloupe, Jixels and Shanika, inside an otherwise Dominican segment. The generation of Kevni works the same crossing in the opposite direction: Guadeloupe voices recording on the Dominican sound at home, in Gwada studios, for a Guadeloupe audience that has made bouyon its own carnival music. Kevni four 2024 features sit exactly on that line, which is why his name belongs in a bouyon artist index and not only in a dancehall one.

He also matters as a Creole voice. “Ghetto Gyal”, “Tchè Mwen Malad”, “Bèl Flè”, “Si Manman’w té sav”: his records carry the Guadeloupean Creole language into dancehall and bouyon formats built for world platforms, without translating or sweetening it. That is exactly the ground on which bouyon itself was built since WCK: an island music, in its own language, that travels.

The limits of the record are stated plainly. No source consulted publishes Kevni full name, birthplace or birth date, and this profile presents him as an artist of the Guadeloupe scene, which is what the sources establish. No official account was verified by opening it during the research, so the schema sameAs field stays empty and this page links to no social profile. Records cited from databases alone are flagged as such in the text.

To hear what comes next, our bouyon playlist mixes bouyon from Dominica, bouyon from the French Antilles and the Creole voices moving between the two, including those of Kevni generation. If his next records confirm the 2024 turn, this profile will be completed, dated and corrected, like every page on this site.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Kevni?

Kevni is a Creole artist of the Guadeloupe dancehall and bouyon scene. He sings in French and Guadeloupean Creole, releases on Baby Nomore Music, and came to French Caribbean attention in 2019 on “Boug an mwen” by Krys and Pompis, before releasing the album “EVERYWHERE I GO” in 2024. Not to be confused with Keen’V, the French singer born in Rouen, who is a different artist.

What is Kevni best known song?

“Boug an mwen”, released on May 10, 2019 by Krys, Pompis and Kevni. Krys explained in an interview with the #streamcaribbean podcast that the record pictures the baton pass between the generations of dancehall, with Kevni then representing the emerging generation of the scene. A remix brought in Matieu White, Drexi, Lion P, Dexterman and Daddy Yod.

Which album did Kevni release in 2024?

“EVERYWHERE I GO”, released on February 23, 2024 by Baby Nomore Music. The album holds eleven tracks, including “STOÏC”, “PROFÉSÈ”, “BÈL FLÈ”, “BOSS MAN”, “À QUOI TU SERS”, “SHEITAN” and “CONTRARIÉTÉ”, with features by Aknose, Poplane and Dory. Platform discographies also list his albums “INEVITAB”, dated 2023, and “TOP BOY”.

What is Kevni link to bouyon?

In 2024, Kevni put his voice on four TiiTii NBA bouyon records: “BIG BONDA” and “BAD MOOD” as singles, and “C QUOI LES BAILS” and “WHAT’S POPPIN” on the album “HOT BOUYON VIBES”. Those records are written by Sandy Tel-Agnesa, his regular writer, and composed by Pascal Peter and Terry Capitolin.

Where is Kevni from?

The sources consulted document him as an artist of the Guadeloupe scene: that is where his label, his collaborations and the audience of his beginnings are, from Krys to TiiTii NBA. No source consulted publishes his birthplace or his full name, and this profile does not invent them. It is a question most rival profiles answer without a source: here, the answer is the one the record allows.

Where can I hear Kevni and the bouyon of his generation?

His records are available on the streaming platforms under the name Kevni, from “Boug an mwen” to the album “EVERYWHERE I GO”. For bouyon from Guadeloupe and Dominica, hear our bouyon playlist and read our history of bouyon page.

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