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Leyou: one verified trace, and a name not to confuse

Published October 20, 2026

Leyou is a guest voice of Guadeloupe bouyon, documented by one verified record only: “VIN TCHEK NOU”, the third track of the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes”, where his name is credited as a feature alongside Le Bluff and Tedla. No public biography documents this name, and search engines mix it with at least two other artists who carry an identical or near identical name. This profile therefore does three things, in order: it publishes the single verified trace, it places it inside the album and the scene that produced it, and it separates in plain words the homonyms this name attracts, so that nobody lends Leyou records that are not shown to be his.

Who Leyou is: a name, a credit, almost nothing else

Leyou is an artist of the bouyon scene of the French Antilles, known through a single documented appearance in the platform catalogues: a feature on another artist album. His name appears, in the sources consulted, on no solo single, on no detailed artist page and in no press article. It appears once, in the right place: on “Premières Notes”, the album by Lewismelo, one of the documented names of the Guadeloupe scene, one half of the brother duo presented on this site with Dcamp and Lewismelo.

This profile therefore opens with the same statement as the profile of his record partner, Le Bluff: in the sources consulted, there is no biography of Leyou. No published real name, no birthplace, no interview, no home label, no verified official account. Everything that can be said with verification fits inside one performer credit and the published writing credits of the same record. This profile does not turn a catalogue line into a legend: it reads it closely, because it is enough to place a precise position inside the scene, that of the guest voice of the collective formats.

That position deserves to be understood for what it is. Current Guadeloupe bouyon works largely through sessions: an artist or a producer gathers several voices on one record, and the names circulate from album to session. Being invited onto the third track of the album of a scene name, alongside two other voices, is no catalogue accident: it is the mark of a presence in the studios and in the contact books of the circuit, even when that presence has left, so far, only one public trace.

The name itself, Leyou, is short, singable, and a problem for research: it blurs into neighbouring names carried by artists of other scenes and other countries, as the section on homonyms below details. This profile invents neither an origin nor a meaning for it. It only notes that the name is credited once, with the spelling “Leyou”, in the precise context of bouyon gwada, and that this context, and this context alone, ties this Leyou to this site.

“VIN TCHEK NOU”: the record that holds the whole file

“VIN TCHEK NOU” is the third track of the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes”, according to the track listing published by Deezer. The title, in the Creole of the French Antilles, means come and see us, come check us: an invitation, a team presentation, the very vocabulary of the collective sessions. The record is credited to Lewismelo as lead artist, with Le Bluff, Leyou and Tedla as features, running 3 minutes 17.

The published writing credits of the record name three writers and composers: youri ellapin, Keran Landre and ted clarin, whose names appear in lowercase in the platform listing. Three writers for three guest voices: matching each writer to each guest singer may look tempting, but no source consulted publishes that match explicitly, name by name. This profile therefore does not make it: it keeps the three writer names as published, and it flags that the individual match remains a reading, not an established fact.

The place of the record inside the album also counts. “VIN TCHEK NOU” arrives in third position, just after the introduction and the record “5 KILOS”, and before the session records that structure the rest of the album. In the collective albums of the scene, the opening places are those of the presentation: the team is shown before the collaborations are unrolled one by one. Leyou is part of that team presentation, on the same level as the names who receive dedicated records further into the album.

Finally, note what the consulted listing does not publish: neither the detailed release date of the album, nor a confirmed video for “VIN TCHEK NOU”, nor separate production credits for this track. This profile therefore cites the record for what is established: its place in the listing, its length, its guest performers and its published writers. The rest, if a complete album sheet confirms it one day, will complete this page, dated and corrected like every page on this site.

“Premières Notes”: the album as a photograph of the circuit

To understand the single trace of Leyou, look at the album that holds it, because “Premières Notes” is a photograph of the bouyon gwada circuit at the moment it appears. The listing published by Deezer opens with an “INTRO” credited to Lewis Wayne Campbell, the full name behind Lewismelo, then moves to “5 KILOS”, which brings Lewismelo together with Admiral T, a historic figure of Guadeloupe music, and Shanika, one of the rising voices of the scene, with writing credits shared between Christy Campbell and Maëva Alphonse.

After “VIN TCHEK NOU” come the other formats of the circuit. “POMPÉ” brings together Dcamp, the brother and duo partner of Lewismelo, and KEKS MAFIA. “ALOUETTE” showcases Lejuh, with a writing credit to julio jordan polydamas. “KEY” brings in Virtuose, on a lyric by Yann-Yves Milon. “HULLABALOO” closes the detailed series with Jixels, credited to Jonathan ELUSCA, the recurring composer of the circuit, also behind records by Shanika. Every track has its guest, and every guest has a published writer: the album is built like a wide session, where the name Lewismelo serves as a common roof for a generation of Guadeloupe voices.

Inside that architecture, the place of Leyou reads clearly. The guests of the album are no extras: Admiral T brings his historic weight, Shanika and Lejuh are voices in full rise, Jixels is a central composer of the circuit. That Leyou is invited in the same list, on the team presentation record, places him in the first circle of available voices of this scene at that precise moment. It is little, and it is already solid information: it comes from the structure of the album itself, not from a rumour.

The album also ties this file to the rest of this site. Lewismelo and his brother Dcamp are documented here for their duo work, and Lejuh, Jixels and Shanika belong to the same session network that the neighbouring profiles tell record by record. A reader who arrives through Leyou therefore holds a thread that leads to the whole scene: follow it through our bouyon Guadeloupe page, which tells how the genre born in Dominica also became a music of Guadeloupe, carried by collective albums like this one.

The homonym trap: the other Leyous are not shown to be this one

Here is the part of this profile that no automatic profile will write, and yet it is the most useful one for not mistaking the artist. The name Leyou, as it stands or under the neighbouring spelling LeYou, is carried by several artists with no shown link between them, and the platforms happily mix them in search results. This profile separates them here, one by one, so that the reader knows exactly what is not claimed for the bouyon Leyou.

First homonym: an artist named Leyou released a single titled “Je les entends dire”, released on June 6, 2025 by Privaty Prod, in the French language, at 109 BPM according to the Shazam data, with Leyou credited on lyrics and the composer Tiery F on composition. That register, a French language song at a moderate tempo signed by an established composer of francophone pop, overlaps in nothing, in the sources consulted, with the bouyon gwada circuit of “VIN TCHEK NOU”: no shared collaborator, no shared label, no shared tempo. For lack of any published element linking the two, this profile does not claim “Je les entends dire” for the Leyou of Lewismelo, and it says so in plain words rather than letting the doubt inflate the catalogue.

Second homonym, under the spelling LeYou with an internal capital Y: a hip hop and rap artist released the singles “COB”, on November 19, 2021, and “DLM”, on February 22, 2024, on the label 2840657 Records DK2, at rap tempos, 95 and 81 BPM. A Spotify statistics page also exists under that neighbouring spelling, with no readable track listing that would tie it to bouyon. Again, no collaborator, no label and no territory in common with the Guadeloupe scene documented here: this profile therefore also sets those records aside from the Leyou file.

That discipline has a price, and this profile accepts it: once the homonyms are set aside, only one verified record remains. But the alternative would be worse. Automatically generated profiles merge homonyms and fabricate discographies of five or ten records that belong to three different people. On a name as short and as poorly documented as Leyou, the only honest position is this one: one proven record, two homonyms identified and set aside, and a file open to any new element that would one day link one of those traces to the voice of “VIN TCHEK NOU” through a published source.

A session voice inside bouyon gwada

It remains to place what a voice like Leyou represents in the economy of the scene. Current bouyon gwada, as this site documents it album by album and session by session, moves through networks: lead artists such as Lewismelo open their projects to a circle of guest voices, and those voices are then found, from feature to feature, in the track listings of the whole scene. The neighbouring profiles on this site tell that mechanism in detail: Le Bluff, the partner of Leyou on “VIN TCHEK NOU”, is documented by four records of the same kind, a duet, a collective session and this album.

In that system, the guest voice is no minor role. Collective records are the formats that keep the scene turning between two headliners: they present the teams, they mix the audiences of each guest, and they often serve as a first step towards records under one own name. Leyou stands, in the current state of the file, exactly on that first step. This profile does not predict what follows: it notes the step, its real height, and the fact that it sits on an album by an established name of the scene, which is not the least of first steps.

The context of the genre gives that trace its background. Bouyon was born in Dominica, carried by bands such as WCK, and its Guadeloupe branch, bouyon gwada, developed its own codes: titles in Creole, short formats, collective sessions and a fast circulation of names between projects. “VIN TCHEK NOU”, with its invitation title in Creole and its three guest voices, is a complete specimen of those codes. Leyou holds his place in it on the same level as the two other guests, and it is on that documented basis that his name appears in the artist index of this site.

For the listener, the entry point therefore fits inside one record and one album: hear “VIN TCHEK NOU” for the voice, then “Premières Notes” in full for the circuit around it, from “5 KILOS” to “HULLABALOO”. Our bouyon playlist then places that sound inside the wider landscape of the genre, from Dominica to the French Antilles, season after season.

What this profile does not know, and why it appears anyway

This profile appears because the record exists and its credit is public. In an index of bouyon artists, leaving a hole where a name credited on the Lewismelo album should stand, alongside Le Bluff and Tedla, would be another kind of error: erasure. The right answer to a one record file is neither an invented biography nor silence, it is the publication of the fact with its limits displayed, and the explicit separation of the homonyms the platforms confuse with him.

The limits are therefore listed here, without detour. No source consulted publishes the real name of Leyou, his birthplace, his birth date or his age. None publishes an interview, a press release or a written biography. No solo single, EP or album by Leyou is documented in the sources consulted: his only verified appearance is a feature. No concert date is referenced. 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.

A method limit must be added, already detailed above: the name Leyou attracts active homonyms in French song and in rap, and search engines present them all mixed together. This profile kept only the occurrence whose credits cross check with the bouyon scene of the French Antilles, that of “VIN TCHEK NOU”, and set aside everything else, including recent records released under the same name, for lack of published proof that they belong to the same artist.

If Leyou releases a record under his own name inside the bouyon circuit, an artist sheet or a first interview, this profile will be completed, dated and corrected, like every page on this site. In the meantime, his single trace remains listenable on the Lewismelo album, and our bouyon Guadeloupe page tells the scene it belongs to, from the founding bands to the current sessions.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Leyou?

Leyou is a guest voice of Guadeloupe bouyon, documented by one verified record only: “VIN TCHEK NOU”, the third track of the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes”, where he is credited as a feature with Le Bluff and Tedla. No public biography documents his real name or his path, and this profile says so openly.

On which album does Leyou appear?

On “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo, whose track listing published by Deezer credits him on the third track, “VIN TCHEK NOU”, running 3 minutes 17. The album also brings together Admiral T and Shanika, Dcamp and KEKS MAFIA, Lejuh and Jixels.

Who wrote “VIN TCHEK NOU”?

The credits published by Deezer name three writers and composers: youri ellapin, Keran Landre and ted clarin. No source consulted publicly matches each name to one of the three guest voices, Le Bluff, Leyou and Tedla, so this profile does not make that match in their place.

Is Leyou the artist of the record “Je les entends dire”?

That is not shown, and this profile does not claim it. An artist named Leyou released “Je les entends dire” on June 6, 2025 on Privaty Prod, in French, composed by Tiery F, at 109 BPM. No collaborator, label or published element links that record to the Leyou credited on the bouyon album of Lewismelo. Automatic profiles merge those homonyms; here, they are separated.

Has Leyou released a solo single or an album?

No solo single, EP or album by Leyou is documented in the sources consulted. His only verified appearance is the feature “VIN TCHEK NOU” on the Lewismelo album. It is a question many profiles answer by absorbing the catalogues of homonyms: the verified answer is no, not so far in the public bouyon record.

Where can I hear Leyou?

On “VIN TCHEK NOU”, the third track of “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo, available on the platforms, alongside Le Bluff and Tedla. For the bouyon of the same scene, hear our bouyon playlist and read our bouyon Guadeloupe page.

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