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Killa Laurent: the keyboards and the console behind Triple Kay

Published October 20, 2026

Killa Laurent, real name Kendel Laurent, is the lead keyboardist and the producer of Triple Kay, one of the most durable bouyon bands in Dominica. The band official site sums up this profile in one sentence: Kendel produces all of their music. Behind the three singers the public watches on stage stands a man of keyboards and studio, responsible for the sound of a catalogue that runs over more than twenty years, from “Big Ting” in 2000 to streaming era singles such as “De General”. This profile follows his documented credits, inside the band and outside it.

Who Killa Laurent is: a stage name, a precise job

Kendel “Killa” Laurent is a Dominican musician and producer. In the current Triple Kay line up published on the band official site, he holds the lead keys position, with the credit of producer. The band counts nine musicians: three frontline vocalists, David “Sonic Tazzy” George, Wayne “Mr Benji N’O” Benjamin and Lennan “Ticky” Matthew, then the backline where Laurent plays lead keyboards, Jeoffrey “JJ Yout” Joseph plays second keys and backing vocals, Jason “Froggy” Joseph plays drums, Ordel “Zoubs” Hamilton plays guitars and Daniel “Brush Head” Phillip plays bass and works as engineering assistant.

The official site hands out the roles without ambiguity: “Kendel produces all of their music while Jeoffrey pens much of the band’s lyrics.” That division explains the shape of this profile. The Triple Kay singers have their pages and their interviews; the producer is read in the credits. That is where this profile follows him: album credits, track by track production credits where the platforms publish them, and studio work for other artists.

Triple Kay was founded by three friends from the community of Laudat, and the band claims over 25 years together, over nine albums, hundreds of songs and thousands of hours of performances around the world. The official site also reports the nickname fans and the regional press give the band, the “Bouyon MVPs”, presented here as a reported nickname and not an official title. Inside that nine musician machine running for a quarter of a century, Laurent is the constant of the sound: the one who produces the music the three voices carry to the crowds.

This profile lends him no birth date, no school history and no official account: none of those elements was confirmed by a published source during the research. What is documented, and documented widely, is the work. The work therefore structures the sections that follow, album by album, record by record, credit by credit.

The band he produces: from cadence to bouyon

To understand Killa Laurent job, follow the band path. In its early years, Triple Kay played a repertoire shaped by local cadence lypso, Haitian compas and the zouk of the neighbouring French West Indies. The debut album, “Big Ting”, came out in 2000, with songs such as “Big Ting” and “L’amour”. The follow up album, “Fanatik”, in 2003, kept that Creole colour on “Fanatik” and “Crevice”, but the single “Log On”, produced and sung by Benji, announced the change of direction.

In 2004 Benji returned as a guest and produced the title track of the album “Sewo”; by the following year he was a full member, and the band repertoire turned to bouyon, the fast, rising sound that spoke to the younger crowd. That turn meets the wider history told on this site: bouyon soca, started in Dominica in 2003 according to Smokiller signed testimony, became popular when Triple Kay and other bands adopted it in their own version of bouyon. The Laudat band is therefore one of the historical carriers of the branch, and its producer is its day to day sound craftsman.

The discography of the bouyon era, as the official site publishes it, runs “All Out” in 2006, “Pressure” in 2007, “Colours” in 2008, “Allo” in 2009, “Hush Your Mouth” in 2011 and “Bubblin” in 2012, presented as the band last full album. Since then, Triple Kay has released singles every year. Across that whole period, the production chair stays Laurent: lead keyboards and production, in a genre where the keyboard has been the signature instrument since the WCK years.

The band also claims a continuous stage presence: a first appearance at the World Creole Music Festival and Creole in the Park in 2002, no missed WCMF edition since 2005 according to the official site, and carnival stages across the Caribbean and the diaspora, from Houston to Toronto, from London to Miami and New York. The same site lists the Antilliaanse Feesten in Hoogstraten, Belgium, in 2006 and again in 2010, and the Terre de Blues Festival in Marie Galante in 2012, and says the band has played all but one staging of Creole in the Park. A live band producer does not work like a bedroom producer: his music is tested every week in front of dancing crowds, and that permanent test bench forged the Triple Kay sound.

The hit run: Road March titles and anthems

The catalogue Killa Laurent produces holds some of the heaviest records in modern bouyon. The official site first holds up “Soos”, from 2007, long the band most popular YouTube upload. In 2008, “Please” won the band first People’s Road March title. In 2013 came the compa record “Pou Yo” and “They Must Be Mad”, featuring Shadowflow. In 2014, “Nous Konnet Vive” was selected as the official theme song of Dominica carnival celebrations, and its remix brought together Nayee, Rah and Asa Bantan.

In 2015, “Lock De Gate” gave the band its second People’s Road March title, and the same period brought the soca fusion “Waist”, with Mr Killa of Grenada and Flippo of Trinidad. “Nice Time” followed in 2016, then “F.T.M (Fete Till Morning)” in 2017, the year “Roll dat Boom Boom” took the Road March title and “Jose” became, within a month, the band second most popular YouTube upload, behind “Soos”.

After the devastation of Hurricane Maria, the band released “Still Standing” in 2018, which became, according to the official site, an anthem of resilience for the country and for other nations facing adverse circumstances. In 2019, “Heat” won what the same site presents as the world first ever People’s Bouyon Road March title. At the dawn of the next decade, “Toufe” is presented as one of the band most loved songs, and the band won Best Carnival Monday Band with the presentation of its signature carnival event, Mega Monday, dubbed “Visions 20/20”. Every one of those records passed through the same pair of hands on keyboards and production: those of Kendel Laurent.

Institutional recognition follows the same arc. The official site reports that the band received the Commonwealth of Dominica Meritorious Service Award in 2022 and the Golden Drum Award in 2022, for its contribution to culture and promotion of the country worldwide. It also reports a quarter century of community giving, and it gives figures: over 30,000 dollars donated to the Education Trust Fund, 12,000 dollars to the Dominica Council on Ageing, the refurbishment of a youth centre in the Kalinago Territory, sponsorship of over 20 primary and secondary school students, and free concerts and fundraisers after Hurricane Ivan in Grenada and Tropical Storm Erika in Dominica. The producer of such a band therefore produces more than records: he produces the official soundtrack, in an almost civic sense, of an entire island fetes.

The streaming era: named credits, record by record

The platform era made Laurent work easier to read, because credits there are published track by track. “Whistle While You Work”, presented by the band as a bouyon 2024 record and described by its site as topping several regional charts, in Antigua among others, carries an explicit credit: riddim producer, Kendel “Killa” Laurent. The official video description gives the record its theme in plain words: pay no attention to the naysayers, concentrate on yourself, and whistle while you work. The official video credits add a recording at Music Box Studios and Home Alone Studio, and mixing and mastering by Cornel Phillip of Imperial Publishing.

On Shazam, the credits of “Let Her Go”, a single released on January 26, 2025, name Kendel Laurent as co-producer and songwriter, alongside Dalian Felix and Jeoffrey John Joseph on the writing side. The platform classes that record as reggae rather than bouyon, a reminder that the producer chair also serves the band slower repertoire. “Allu Like Dat”, presented as a bouyon 2025 record, also names him co-producer and songwriter. “De General”, presented as a bouyon 2026 record, goes further: Kendel Laurent is credited as producer, full stop, and as songwriter. One production signature can be read in the platform data itself: Shazam lists all three of those recent singles, “Let Her Go”, “Allu Like Dat” and “De General”, at the same tempo of 160 BPM, the fast heartbeat of modern bouyon, whether the record is a party title or a slower reggae classed single. The continuity is clear: from the album producer of the 2000s to the named producer of the 2020s singles, the chair never changed holder.

Those credits also confirm the band working method. Lyrics are often collective, written by the vocalists and the in house lyricist Jeoffrey Joseph, sometimes with guest writers such as Dalian Felix. Production returns to Laurent, alone or in co-production. In a genre where the public remembers voices and choruses, those credit lines are the written trace of who builds the sound: the keyboard patterns, the synth bass and the rhythm programming that have defined bouyon since its origins.

To hear that sound today, our bouyon playlist mixes genre classics with the new Dominican releases followed by Bouyon Shattaz, and our bouyon riddim page explains the central place of the producer in this music built on loops and keyboards.

Outside the band: Music Box Studio and other artists

Killa Laurent does not produce only for Triple Kay. The official credits of Romel record “Forks Up”, released as a soca 2019 title, name him producer and mixing engineer, at Music Box Studio, in Dominica, with mastering by Cornel “Fingers” Philip of Imperial Publishing. Romel is a soca artist from Antigua: the credit therefore shows the Laudat producer serving a voice from another island, inside the regional carnival circuit where Dominican productions have travelled for a long time.

The official credits also name an additional production contribution from Shealdon “Good-Up” Riley of Blakk Media, who recorded the record, which places Laurent at the centre of a small regional production network rather than alone at a desk. Another credit, in a very different register, shows him producing “What’s Your Plan” for the Dominica Red Cross, a disaster preparedness awareness song. The record was written and composed by Michele Henderson, performed by Michele Henderson and Wayne Benjamin, the Benji of Triple Kay, and produced by Kendel Laurent. The producer of the island hardest partying band also signs the soundtrack of a public prevention campaign, which says something about the place of Music Box Studio in Dominican musical life.

Those outside credits matter for a simple reason: they prove the name Laurent travels as a producer in his own right, not only as a band member. On “Forks Up” he holds production and mixing; on “What’s Your Plan” he produces for a national institution. Music Box Studio appears in both cases as the place of that work, the same studio named in the credits of “Whistle While You Work”.

The picture that emerges is of an inside producer: not a passing figure invited onto one record, but the studio man of a small island where the same name returns on the productions of the biggest bouyon band, on an Antigua soca record and on a public service song. That kind of continuity, more than any honorary title, measures the real weight of Killa Laurent in Dominican music.

Why Killa Laurent matters, and what this profile does not claim

Killa Laurent matters because Triple Kay matters. A band that crosses 25 years, wins Road March titles in three different categories and carries bouyon to stages on three continents needs a stable sound signature, and that signature has an author. The singers change costume at every fete; the producer holds the sound. The published credits, from the “Whistle While You Work” riddim to the production of “De General”, show that signature stayed in the same hands while the genre moved from band albums to platform singles.

Jeoffrey Joseph, the band lyricist and second keyboardist, sums up the result on the official site: “Our music is relatable and our style of music composition is infectious.” The composition style he praises is the one produced, record after record, by the man on lead keys. He also matters as a reminder of how bouyon is made. Since WCK, bouyon has been a music of keyboards and producers as much as of singers. This site history of bouyon page follows that line from Derek Peters to the live bands, then to studio producers such as Dada for bouyon soca. Killa Laurent belongs to the generation that held that line in the big live band format: nine musicians on stage, one producer behind the catalogue.

Finally, this profile states its limits. It does not know the exact date Laurent joined the band, which the official site does not publish, so it attributes the band productions to his current, documented chair, without pretending to date every credit of the early years. It links to no personal social profile, none having been verified during the research. And it separates facts from nicknames: “Bouyon MVPs” is the band reported nickname, not a title awarded to its producer.

There is one last feature of the band its official site underlines, and it concerns its producer directly: recordings of their live performances are highly anticipated and play in public buses and at events like albums in their own right. Killa Laurent music therefore does not only live in the studio and on the platforms; it lives in the live recordings an entire island plays back, which makes the band producer a producer of Dominica everyday soundtrack.

Listening, though, is simple: start with “Heat”, “Lock De Gate” and “Jose” for the band at the top of its form, then “Whistle While You Work” and “De General” to hear, credits in hand, the producer at work in the streaming era. Between the two stands the path of a Laudat keyboardist whose stage name promised a fight, and who mostly delivered twenty years of consistency.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Killa Laurent?

Killa Laurent, real name Kendel Laurent, is a musician and producer from Dominica. He is the lead keyboardist of Triple Kay and, according to the band official site, the producer of all of the band music.

Who really produces Triple Kay music, Benji or Killa Laurent?

Both names appear, at different moments. The band official site credits Benji with producing the hinge single “Log On” in 2003 and the title track of “Sewo” in 2004, when Benji turned the band toward bouyon. For the catalogue as a whole, the same official site states it without nuance: “Kendel produces all of their music.” Platform credits confirm that role for the recent era: Kendel Laurent is credited as producer of “De General” and co-producer of “Allu Like Dat” and “Let Her Go”.

Which major records has Killa Laurent produced with Triple Kay?

As the band producer, his catalogue covers the albums from “Big Ting” (2000) to “Bubblin” (2012) and the singles that became classics: “Soos”, “Please”, People’s Road March title in 2008, “Nous Konnet Vive”, carnival theme song in 2014, “Lock De Gate”, People’s Road March in 2015, “Roll dat Boom Boom”, Road March in 2017, “Still Standing” in 2018 and “Heat”, presented by the band as the world first People’s Bouyon Road March title in 2019.

What is Music Box Studio?

Music Box Studio is the Dominican studio that appears in Kendel Laurent production credits: he produced and mixed Romel “Forks Up” there in 2019, and Triple Kay “Whistle While You Work” was recorded there, alongside Home Alone Studio.

Does Killa Laurent work with artists other than Triple Kay?

Yes, according to published credits. He produced and mixed “Forks Up” by Antigua soca artist Romel (2019), and produced “What’s Your Plan”, the Dominica Red Cross disaster preparedness song written and composed by Michele Henderson and performed by Michele Henderson and Wayne Benjamin.

Where can I hear bouyon produced by Killa Laurent?

Start with “Whistle While You Work” and “De General” for his most recent named production credits, then “Heat” and “Lock De Gate” for the band Road March records. Our bouyon playlist mixes those classics with the new Dominican releases followed by Bouyon Shattaz.

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