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Krys: the Guadeloupe dancehall singer in a bouyon duet with Shelly

Published October 20, 2026

Krys is the co performer of “Lè i Bon”, the bouyon duet by Shelly released under the heading “Shelly x Krys - Lè i Bon (Clip Officiel) | Bouyon 2026”. The name raises a real question, because a well known French dancehall singer is called Krys, the singer of “Dangereuse”, born in Abymes, Guadeloupe. This profile assumes nothing: it establishes the identity through the credit chain, opened piece by piece. The credit roll of the video credits the writing to Sheldon Alfred and to Pedro Pirbakas, the Qobuz single page credits Pedro Pirbakas as composer and lyricist alongside Krys as a main artist, and the Qobuz biography of Krys gives his real name: Pedro Pirbakas. It is therefore the same man, a Guadeloupean whose dancehall path spans twenty years, and “Lè i Bon” is not his first bouyon record: in 2021, on his album “Oasis”, he recorded with Triple Kay what he himself calls his first bouyon sound. This profile publishes the two verified records, the path the opened sources document, and what they do not say.

One name, two possible files: the identity established by the credits

The starting point is a video, and its complete credit roll. The page of the official video of “Lè i Bon”, opened in full for this profile, presents the video as the music video for the record by Shelly & Krys, produced by DJ Kalli and Jay Blu. The song credit block gives four lines that carry this whole file: performed by Shelly, Krys; written by Sheldon Alfred, Pedro Pirbakas; composed by DJ Kalli, Jay Blu; synth bass by Giovannie Green. A line of additional production and engineering follows, signed Dernel “Dernz” Green, and the background vocals are credited to Darren Green, Dernel Green and Giovannie Green. The lead artist of the record, Shelly, is documented on this site under his stage name, and his legal name in this credit roll, Sheldon Alfred, matches the first half of the writing. The second half, Pedro Pirbakas, is the key to the profile.

The Qobuz single page, also opened in full, closes the chain. It presents “Lè i Bon” as a one track single, 2 minutes 33 long, published on September 26, 2025 under the Signal Band Inc. banner. Its metadata credits Pedro Pirbakas as composer, lyricist and studio personnel, Krys as a main artist, Shelly as a main artist, and Sheldon Alfred as composer and lyricist. In other words, the platform files under the same recording the stage name Krys and the legal name Pedro Pirbakas, exactly as the credit roll of the video files the stage name in the performance and the legal name in the writing. One question remains: to which known artist does that legal name belong?

The artist biography published on his Qobuz page, signed Music Story, answers it in one sentence: the real name of Krys, the French dancehall singer born in Abymes, Guadeloupe, on October 18, 1983, is Pedro Pirbakas. The Krys of “Lè i Bon” is therefore indeed the Krys of French dancehall, and not a homonym of the bouyon scene. A second clue, independent of the metadata, points the same way: the thanks in the video name Step Out Productions, the company Krys founded in 2008 according to the interview he gave to the #streamcaribbean podcast, and after which his 2010 album “Step Out” is named according to his biography. A production company is not thanked by accident on someone else video: its presence in the thanks ties the record to the workshop of the Guadeloupean singer.

Caution still applies on one point, and this profile states it. The Qobuz artist page of Krys mixes, in its discography, releases by other artists carrying the same stage name, including electronic records published by banners unrelated to him: adjacency on a store page therefore proves nothing, and this profile makes no use of it. The proof rests only on the chain of names, checkable by anyone who opens the three documents: the credit roll of the video, the single page and the artist biography. It is on that basis, and on that basis alone, that the following sections tell the path of the dancehall singer who became, twice, a bouyon performer.

Lè i Bon: the official video and the single, credits line by line

The record appears in two documented forms. The first is the official video, headed “Shelly x Krys - Lè i Bon (Clip Officiel) | Bouyon 2026”: the heading places the record in the bouyon 2026 season, bills the two names as a duet, and the description opens with the words music video for the record by Shelly & Krys, produced by DJ Kalli and Jay Blu. The second is the digital single, published on September 26, 2025 by Signal Band Inc., the banner of Shelly group, Signal Band, which the description of the video also invites viewers to follow alongside the accounts of Shelly. The date of the single and the season billed by the video do not contradict each other: the record came out in the autumn of 2025 and its video presents it as a record of the bouyon 2026 circuit, the carnival season that follows its release.

The video credit roll completes the song credit roll already quoted. The video was shot and edited by Dreamer Filmz, and its thanks name Step Out Productions, Coco Kafe, Shanita Scotland and Charly Jetski. The song side plugs the duet into the current Dominican workshop: the additional production and engineering are signed Dernel “Dernz” Green, a recurring name in the credits of the recent bouyon wave documented on this site, and the synth bass is played by Giovannie Green, who also sings in the background vocals with Darren Green and Dernel Green. Three members of the Green family therefore surround the duet: the record is a meeting between two voices, Shelly and Krys, and a making team from the island, while the Guadeloupean partner brings his name, his voice and, through the thanks, his own company.

The two reference documents do not give exactly the same production credit roll, and this profile flags that instead of choosing. The description of the video credits the production of the record to DJ Kalli and Jay Blu, and its composition to the same two names. The metadata of the Qobuz single credits two producers under other names, Joshua Alman and Kallicharran Changoo, and files the writing and the composition under the legal names of the two singers. The two credit rolls coexist in the official sources of the record: this profile publishes both, each attributed to its document, without deciding that one stage name covers one legal name, which no opened source states.

The store filing offers a last reading lesson. Qobuz files the “Lè i Bon” single under Reggae and Ska and Rocksteady, while the heading of the video presents it as a bouyon record of the 2026 season and its whole credit roll belongs to the Dominican bouyon circuit. Platform shelves are automatic or declared filings, not analyses: this profile keeps the filing the record gives itself in its primary document, the video, and flags the store shelf for what it is, a product page label. The title itself, “Lè i Bon”, is in Kwéyòl, the Creole language of Dominica and Saint Lucia: a circuit signal, consistent with the anchoring of the record, which this profile reads as a signal and not as proof of origin for either singer. Our bouyon and Kwéyòl page follows the place of that language in the genre.

The dancehall path: from Abymes to Dangereuse, from Step Out to God Bless

The path the Qobuz biography documents starts in Abymes, Guadeloupe, where Pedro Pirbakas was born on October 18, 1983. A member of the Black Micky Crew at fifteen, he studied business in Montpellier while producing his debut album, “Limé Mic-La”, released in 2005 by Kickilla Records according to his biography, which puts its sales at 3,000 copies; the store page dates the same release to November 2004, and the #streamcaribbean interview also places it in 2004: the opened sources vary by one year on this first milestone, and this profile says so rather than deciding. “K-Rysmatik” followed in 2006, then the biggest hit of the singer according to his biography, “Dangereuse”, which reached number 31 in the French SNEP chart. The “Renaissance” mixtape came in 2007.

The interview he gave to the #streamcaribbean podcast, hosted by Maëlla and devoted to Guadeloupean artists, fills that path with his own voice. Krys tells of a childhood in Lauricisque, an entry into music through urban culture, rap and writing, before dancehall, then an awareness of Guadeloupean traditional music that came later, expressed on stage at his ten year anniversary concert, with a tribute to gwo ka and the ka master Yves Thôle as a guest. He confirms there his signing to Universal in 2006, the founding of Step Out Productions in 2008, and the weight of the “Step Out” album in 2010, carried by the records “Bootyshake” and “Saucisson la” and by a duet with Vybz Kartel of which he says he is very proud. The biography adds the “Dis-moi oui” duet with Colonel Reyel in 2011, the albums “Dancehall Is Back” in 2014 and “7K” in 2016, and a setback it links to his Creole lyrics.

The discography opened on his store page shows an artist still active at the moment “Lè i Bon” appears. The comeback is dated by the biography: in 2024, the record “God Bless (Ah la vie qu’on mène)” reached number 1 in the French overseas chart. Around it, the page lists “Bing Bang (Chokola)” in December 2024, “Holiday” in February 2025, “Poukwa” in October 2025, “San kilot” in January 2026, “Crime parfait” in May 2026 and “No pain no gain” in June 2026, almost all released by Step Out Productions, his own banner. It is therefore a singer in the middle of a run of releases, and not a figure of the past, who enters into duet with Shelly in the autumn of 2025. His Guadeloupean anchoring, documented by his biography and by the interview, ties him to the circuit this site follows on its Guadeloupe artists page.

The first bouyon sound: Chak moun on moun with Triple Kay, in 2021

Four years before “Lè i Bon”, Krys had already crossed into bouyon, and he tells it himself. In the #streamcaribbean interview, the host presents “Chak Moun On Moun” as his collaboration with Triple Kay Band, a group she places in Dominica, and as the carnival record of his album “Oasis”. Krys explains the choice: he wanted an album turned toward the Creole community and toward the Caribbean world; Triple Kay is, he says, a mythical group of bouyon music, and if he was going to make his first bouyon sound, he might as well do it with the number 1s. The wording is his, and this profile quotes it as such: it establishes that the artist claims “Chak moun on moun” as his first bouyon recording, conceived as an entry into the genre through its most established Dominican door.

The Qobuz album page, opened in full for this profile, gives the matter of the record. “Oasis” was released on July 30, 2021 by Step Out Productions, holds thirteen tracks for 41 minutes 35, and the store files it under Dancehall. “Chak moun on moun” is its ninth track, 3 minutes 33 long: Krys is the main artist, Triple Kay the featured artist, the composition is credited to Loic Larochelle and Gabriel Francisque, and the lyrics to Pedro Pirbakas and Wayne Donald Benjamin. The whole album draws the Caribbean network the interview describes: Tiwony featured on “Koulè”, Shanel Hill on “Lov’la”, Admiral T on “Boss inna real life”, Pompis and Kevni on “Boug an mwen”, Methi’s on “On pa”. The concept, told by Krys in the same interview, fits in three words: love, positivity, legacy, a course taken after the birth of his daughter in 2018 and strengthened during the lockdowns, which gave the album its title, an oasis in the middle of the desert of that period.

The place of these two records in the history of the genre then reads clearly. Bouyon was born in Dominica at the end of the 1980s, and bouyon soca was started in Dominica in 2003 by Dada, according to the first hand testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer and a participant in that era. A generation later, the genre draws established voices from the neighbouring islands: a dancehall singer from Guadeloupe, a French speaking and Creole speaking market, who in 2021 chose the reference bouyon band as a partner, then returned in 2025 in duet with Shelly, one of the voices of the current wave, on a Kwéyòl titled record made in the Dominican workshop. “Lè i Bon” is therefore no accident of a credit roll: it is the second documented passage of the same artist in the genre, and the first where he sings alongside an artist of the new generation of the island. Our bouyon playlist follows the records of this wave as they come out.

What the file establishes, and what it does not say

The verified scope of this profile fits into two recordings and one identity. The identity: Krys, co performer of “Lè i Bon”, is Pedro Pirbakas, the dancehall singer born in Abymes, Guadeloupe, established by the agreement of the credit roll of the video, the metadata of the single and the artist biography, three opened documents. The two bouyon recordings: “Chak moun on moun”, with Triple Kay featured, on the album “Oasis” of July 30, 2021, whose album page was opened in full; and “Lè i Bon”, in duet with Shelly, a Signal Band Inc. single of September 26, 2025, whose official video and single page were opened in full. Those are the only two records the structured data of this page ties to Krys, because they are the only two for which a primary platform page was opened during this research.

The limits are just as clear. The video page names no origin for Krys: it is his artist biography, a separate document, that establishes Guadeloupe, and the Kwéyòl title of the duet is a circuit signal, not a proof. No opened interview speaks of “Lè i Bon” itself: neither the meeting with Shelly, nor the sung parts of each singer in the record, nor the share of Krys in the writing beyond his name in the credit roll is documented by an opened source. The description of the video gives no account to follow for Krys, only those of Shelly and of Signal Band: the structured data of this page therefore links only the Qobuz artist page opened and verified during this research, and no social media account. Finally, the rich dancehall discography of the singer is summarised here only through the milestones his biography and his interview publish: this profile is a bouyon profile, not a complete biography, and it claims neither the exhaustiveness of his catalog nor the fine chronology of his hits.

The listening, to close, follows the order of the file. “Chak moun on moun” first, the claimed first bouyon sound, a carnival record built with Triple Kay at the top of their art; “Lè i Bon” next, the return of 2025, where the same Guadeloupean voice settles onto the Dominican making of the current wave, alongside Shelly. Between the two, the dancehall path of Krys, from “Dangereuse” to “God Bless”, is read in the sources quoted by this profile. If a third bouyon passage appears, or if an interview documents the meeting behind “Lè i Bon”, this profile will be completed and dated, like every page on this site.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Krys?

Krys is a French dancehall singer born in Abymes, Guadeloupe, on October 18, 1983, under the name Pedro Pirbakas, according to the biography published on his Qobuz artist page. Known for “Dangereuse”, which reached number 31 in the SNEP chart, and for the album “Step Out” in 2010, he is the co performer, with Shelly, of the bouyon record “Lè i Bon”, released as a single by Signal Band Inc. on September 26, 2025.

Is the Krys of Lè i Bon the well known dancehall singer?

Yes, and this profile establishes it through the credits rather than the name. The credit roll of the official video credits the writing of “Lè i Bon” to Sheldon Alfred and Pedro Pirbakas, the Qobuz single page credits Pedro Pirbakas as composer and lyricist alongside Krys as a main artist, and the Qobuz biography of Krys gives Pedro Pirbakas as his real name. The thanks in the video also name Step Out Productions, the company founded by the Guadeloupean singer.

What is the bouyon record of Krys with Shelly?

“Lè i Bon”, a duet by Shelly and Krys presented by its official video as a bouyon record of the 2026 season. The single, 2 minutes 33 long, was released on September 26, 2025 by Signal Band Inc. The credit roll of the video credits the composition to DJ Kalli and Jay Blu, the synth bass to Giovannie Green, the additional production and engineering to Dernel “Dernz” Green, and the filming to Dreamer Filmz.

Had Krys recorded bouyon before Lè i Bon?

Yes. On his album “Oasis”, released on July 30, 2021, the record “Chak moun on moun” brings him together with Triple Kay, credited as featured artist on the Qobuz album page. In the #streamcaribbean podcast interview, Krys presents that record as his first bouyon sound and explains that he chose Triple Kay, whom he describes as a mythical group of bouyon music, to enter the genre.

Where does Krys come from?

From Guadeloupe: his artist biography says he was born in Abymes on October 18, 1983, and the #streamcaribbean interview, devoted to Guadeloupean artists, has him tell of his childhood in Lauricisque and his beginnings in the Black Micky Crew. The video page of “Lè i Bon” names no origin for him: the Guadeloupean anchoring comes from those two documents, not from the credit roll of the duet.

Who produced Lè i Bon?

The official sources of the record give two credit rolls, and this profile publishes both. The description of the official video credits the production and the composition to DJ Kalli and Jay Blu. The metadata of the Qobuz single credits the production to Joshua Alman and Kallicharran Changoo, and the writing to the legal names of the two singers, Sheldon Alfred and Pedro Pirbakas. No opened source reconciles the two credit rolls.

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