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Nice: the Dominican voice behind Bye to de Old Me

Published October 20, 2026

Nice is a bouyon artist from Dominica, confirmed among the Dominican acts of the World Creole Music Festival 2026 in the Discover Dominica Authority release. His name travels first through collaborations: “Bye to de Old Me” with Shelly and Pudaz, “Without You” with Reo and Trilla-G, “Situationship” with DJ Taffy. According to the published festival guides, he plays Night 3, on Sunday October 25, 2026, in Roseau. This profile gathers only the verified facts about Nice, and states plainly what the record does not yet know.

Who Nice is: a bouyon artist from Dominica, confirmed by the festival

Nice is a bouyon artist from Dominica. That starting point is not a guess drawn from his accent or his collaborators: he appears in the official Discover Dominica Authority release of August 19, 2026, presenting the World Creole Music Festival 2026 line-up. In that text, Dominican music is described as central to the festival experience, and Nice is named among the homegrown acts confirmed for the 2026 edition, alongside Midnight Groovers, TK International, Asa Bantan, Signal Band, Pudaz, Reo and Gwada G. For an artist with such a generic name, that institutional confirmation matters twice over: it ties the right Nice, the Dominican bouyon one, to a precise stage and a precise island.

The name Nice itself calls for particular care. Artists called Nice exist in many genres and many countries, and platforms happily mix up namesakes. The rule of this profile is therefore strict: only facts tied to the Shelly and Pudaz collaborator, to the artist billed at WCMF 2026 and to the documented bouyon records below are kept. Everything else, biographies of other artists called Nice, figures from other catalogues, images from other scenes, is set aside. That discipline may look severe, but it is what makes the page useful: a reader looking for the Nice of “Bye to de Old Me” finds the right artist here, and only him.

What the record does not hold must be stated too. No verified source consulted for this profile gives Nice full name, his home community in Dominica, his date of birth or a confirmed official social account. This profile therefore prints none of that. In bouyon, many careers are built first on records, remixes and bills, before biographies catch up. Nice belongs to that category: the music is documented, the man remains to be documented, and this page would rather write that than invent a journey.

One last naming point runs through the whole profile. Nice also appears as Nice767 on “Situationship”, the DJ Taffy record where he is featured: 767 is Dominica telephone area code, a frequent way for artists from the island to sign their origin inside the name itself. Another spelling, Niice, appears in some mix tracklists for a different title. No source consulted confirms that Niice and Nice are the same artist, so this profile does not merge the two spellings and does not credit that title to Nice. Here again, caution is part of credit.

Bye to de Old Me: the record that made Nice name

The central record in the Nice dossier is “Bye to de Old Me”. In its original form it is a Signal Band record featuring Shelly: Shazam dates it to January 27, 2025, on the Signal Band Inc. label. The video, presented as Bouyon 2025, reached a rare audience level for the scene: it stood at 1 million views on the popular YouTube shelf recorded during our research. The record was then honoured at home: at the second Dominica Music Awards, on January 3, 2026, Signal Band won six awards, including Music Video of the Year for “Bye to the Old Me”, according to the Black Island Girl report. Shelly also took Songwriter of the Year and Male Artist of the Year that night.

The version that brings Nice into the story is the remix. Sokah2Soca, republished by Island Vybe on November 11, 2025, presents it as performed by Shelly, Nice and Pudaz. The blog describes a hook built to stay in the head, “Bye, bye, bye to the old me”, and reads the record as a message about breaking with the old self, cut for Carnival 2026. That reading matters for understanding the place of Nice: he steps not into just any record, but into the expanded version of one of the biggest bouyon records of the moment, alongside the Signal Band singer and Pudaz, who was named Bouyon Artist of the Year at the same Dominica Music Awards.

The published credits of the remix deserve a full reading, because they show the level of production around Nice on this record. Writing is credited to Sheldon Alfred, Miguel Hussey and Udi Prince. Composition and engineering are by Dernel “Dernz” Green, additional riddim programming is by Fr3EzE, live bass is played by Giovannie “Gio” Green, and background vocals bring together Darren Green, Dernel Green, Giovannie Green and Liam Sebastien. This profile lists those names without assigning each of the three writers a precise stage name, because the sources consulted give the list without completing the match. What is certain, and sufficient, is the performance credit: Shelly, Nice and Pudaz.

For Bouyon Shattaz, this record has a closely followed history. The Pudaz page on this site already recorded the remix at 691,000 views on the Smokiller YouTube channel at the time of its check, and the record sits in the ROAD MIX playlists. Two checks, two different contexts, one same signal: “Bye to de Old Me” is the record through which a large part of the public, in Dominica and in the diaspora, heard the voice of Nice for the first time. Every discovery of the artist should start there, before moving back to his other documented collaborations in the sections that follow.

Without You and Situationship: the documented catalogue of Nice, a bouyon artist built on collaborations

The second solid record in the dossier is “Without You”, presented as Bouyon 2025. The official YouTube video description credits it to Nice, Reo, Trilla-G, Unstoppable Shax and Quan Dawg, with production by A-Plus Muzik, mixing and mastering by Th3rd House Studios and a video by A.Nibbs. The same description gives the handle of Nice, @o.f.f.i.c.i.a.l_n.i.c.e, and links out to Spotify and Apple Music. This profile reports the handle exactly as published in the official video credits, without building a full address from it: it is the most direct public trace of the stage identity of Nice to date.

“Without You” draws the network of Nice with precision. Reo and Trilla-G belong to the Dominican generation building international careers out of Roseau, and Unstoppable Shax appears, according to the published guides, on the same WCMF 2026 Night 3 as Nice. In other words, this 2025 record already gathers part of the closing bill of the 2026 festival. In bouyon, these collective records are not catalogue filler: they are the workshops where a generation welds itself together, tests its voices side by side and prepares the bills of the following seasons. Nice holds his place there among more exposed names, which says something about the trust his own scene places in him.

The third documented record is older, and it shows another side of the path. “Situationship” is a DJ Taffy record featuring Nice767, released on February 15, 2023, on Riddim Beast Studios, at 160 BPM according to Shazam. The same title appears, credited simply to Nice, in the tracklist of the DJ Judgement Road to Carnival mix, devoted to the meeting of Dominica and Trinbago. Two independent traces, one same title: as early as 2023, Nice was already recording with a producer DJ from the scene, before the “Bye to de Old Me” wave. On this site, DJ Taffy has his own page, DJ Taffy, and he shares WCMF 2026 Night 3 with Nice according to the published guides.

A fourth record completes the verified catalogue: “Stronger Remix”, by Signal Band featuring Nice, appears in the published tracklist of the DJWillyWonka Factory mix, alongside “Bye to de Old Me” and “Without You”. This profile cites it for what it is in the sources: a mix tracklist entry, not a detailed platform sheet. In total, the documented catalogue of Nice holds four records, and this profile does not stretch it artificially. Four verified records, including a remix of a million view record in its original version and a billing at his island biggest festival, are worth more than a discography inflated with titles borrowed from namesakes.

St. Maarten, May 2025: Nice on the first all bouyon festival bill

Before WCMF 2026, Nice had already played a historic bill for the genre. In May 2025, more than 5,000 people gathered at Lotterie Farm in St. Maarten for the Strictly the Best Festival, Bouyon Edition, presented as the first festival dedicated entirely to bouyon. The event, organised by Two Brothers Entertainment, brought together artists from Dominica and rising talent from St. Maarten. According to the Black Island Girl report of May 12, 2025, Nice was on the bill, with Pudaz, Litle Boy, Quandan, Freddy, Reo, Kenny G, Trilla G, Trixx, Unstoppable Shax, Khallion and Edday, alongside the bands T.G. Band and Turrxxdem Band.

That presence says two things. First, Nice belongs to the group of Dominican artists that regional promoters call when they build a bouyon bill outside Dominica. The genre travels, and its ambassadors are not only the two or three best known names: they are whole bills, where collaboration artists like Nice carry part of the show. Second, the context of the night strengthens the signal: according to the same report, Mr Ridge closed the night by inviting every bouyon artist back on stage for a spontaneous final act of solidarity, presented as a statement about the size the genre has reached. Nice was part of that family photograph.

The report adds a detail that speaks to Caribbean festival audiences: rain briefly threatened the night, and the crowd danced in the rain rather than leave, with organisers already announcing further bouyon events in the region. For an artist, playing that kind of night builds a different reputation from the platforms: that of a voice that holds a real stage, in front of a regional crowd that came specially for the genre. It is that kind of reputation, built bill after bill, that prepares a booking like WCMF.

For French speaking readers, this St. Maarten step is also the closest geographically. St. Maarten is a French and Dutch island, neighbouring the Guadeloupe and Martinique audiences this site addresses. Seeing Nice on a St. Maarten bill in 2025, then on the closing night of the Roseau festival in 2026, draws the full path: Dominican bouyon circulates in the northern Caribbean, comes home for its biggest date, and Nice is present at both ends of that documented journey.

WCMF 2026: Night 3, on Sunday October 25, 2026, in Roseau

According to the published World Creole Music Festival 2026 guides, notably writeups24, Nice plays Night 3, on Sunday October 25, 2026. The festival runs at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau from Friday October 23 to Sunday October 25, 2026, during Dominica Independence season, under the theme “Pulsating Rhythms”. It is the 26th edition of the festival, according to the same guides. The closing night brings together, again according to writeups24, Machel Montano, Uncle Waffles, FRIDAYY, Maxi Priest, Diblo Dibala, Les Aiglons, Jean Marc Ferdinand, Shelly and The Signal Band, Gwada G, Unstoppable Shax, Nice and DJ Taffy.

Reading that bill closely shows the coherence of the path of Nice. He meets there Shelly and Signal Band, his partners on “Bye to de Old Me”, Unstoppable Shax, his partner on “Without You”, and DJ Taffy, the producer of “Situationship”. His documented discography and his festival bill therefore tell the same story: an artist built through collaborations, booked on the night when his collaborators also play. Few emerging artist profiles offer such a clear match between studio credits and the big stage. It is one of the reasons why Bouyon Shattaz documents Nice now, rather than waiting for a solo hit to make his name unavoidable.

Night 3 is the closing night, and closing WCMF carries a particular weight. The festival is Dominica great Creole showcase, the moment when Roseau presents its music to the world during Independence season. According to the Discover Dominica Authority release, the 2025 edition had drawn more than 42,000 people across its three nights. Playing the last night of the following edition, in front of that crowd, alongside international headliners and historic Creole bands, places Nice inside the official landscape of his island in the most concrete sense: his name is printed on the programme Dominica shows the world.

This profile attributes that information as it should: the make-up of the nights comes from the published guides, writeups24 first, and the confirmation of the Dominican artists comes from the Discover Dominica Authority release. If the official programme were to change, this page would be corrected and dated, like every page on this site. In the meantime, the listening advice is simple: prepare for Night 3 by hearing “Bye to de Old Me” in both its versions, then “Without You”, in our bouyon playlist and on the Shelly and Signal Band pages.

Why Nice matters, and what this profile does not yet know

Nice matters because he shows how Dominican bouyon produces its artists today. No grand official biography, no international campaign, but a run of collaborations in the right place: the remix of the biggest Signal Band record, a collective title with the Reo and Trilla-G generation, an early feature with DJ Taffy, a historic bill in St. Maarten, then the closing night of WCMF. Taken separately, each fact is modest. Chained together, they draw an artist his scene believes in, and whom promoters call when the genre needs representing.

Nice also matters as a test of method for this site. His name is the most generic an artist could carry, and that is exactly why his profile had to exist under strict rules: every fact tied to the Shelly and Pudaz collaborator, every figure given with its source and its moment, every blank acknowledged as a blank. If a reader can check, record by record, why this Nice is the right Nice, then the page has done its work. It is the same credit work Bouyon Shattaz carries for the whole genre, from WCK to the current generation, told in our history of bouyon.

The limits of the dossier remain real, and they are written here rather than hidden. The full name of Nice is not confirmed by the sources consulted, and neither are his home community, his age or a verified official account beyond the handle published in the “Without You” credits. No solo album is documented to date in our sources, and no solo title is claimed without a trace. This profile is therefore, deliberately, an emerging artist profile: shorter on biography, denser on credits, and ready to be completed when verifiable sources arrive, notably around his WCMF 2026 performance.

In the meantime, listening follows the order of the dossier. Start with the “Bye to de Old Me” remix, with Shelly and Pudaz, then go back to the Signal Band original to hear the record that won Music Video of the Year in Dominica. Continue with “Without You”, for the group photograph of his generation, and “Situationship”, for the oldest trace of his voice in our sources. Finish with this site bouyon playlist: Nice holds his place there among the artists who, like him, carry Dominican bouyon from the studios of Roseau to stages across the Caribbean.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Nice, the bouyon artist?

Nice is a bouyon artist from Dominica, named among the Dominican acts confirmed for the World Creole Music Festival 2026 in the Discover Dominica Authority release of August 19, 2026. He is known through his collaborations, including the “Bye to de Old Me” remix with Shelly and Pudaz.

Is Nice playing WCMF 2026?

Yes, according to the published World Creole Music Festival 2026 guides, notably writeups24, Nice plays Night 3, on Sunday October 25, 2026, in Roseau, alongside Shelly and The Signal Band, Gwada G, Unstoppable Shax and DJ Taffy.

Who wrote “Bye to de Old Me”?

According to the credits published by Sokah2Soca for the remix performed by Shelly, Nice and Pudaz, the record is written by Sheldon Alfred, Miguel Hussey and Udi Prince, composed and engineered by Dernel “Dernz” Green, with additional riddim programming by Fr3EzE and live bass by Giovannie “Gio” Green.

Are Nice, Nice767 and Niice the same artist?

Nice and Nice767 belong to the same documented path: the DJ Taffy record “Situationship” credits him as Nice767, and 767 is the Dominica area code. The Niice spelling, seen in some mix tracklists for a different title, is not confirmed by any source as the same bouyon artist, so this site does not merge the two names.

Which records should I hear to discover Nice?

Start with the “Bye to de Old Me” remix with Shelly and Pudaz, then “Without You” with Reo, Trilla-G, Unstoppable Shax and Quan Dawg, produced by A-Plus Muzik, and “Situationship” by DJ Taffy featuring Nice767, released in 2023. The Signal Band “Stronger Remix” featuring Nice completes the verified catalogue.

Do we know the full name and home community of Nice?

No, not in the verified sources consulted for this profile. No full name, no home community and no confirmed official social account are published to date for Nice, bouyon artist from Dominica. The only handle published in official credits is @o.f.f.i.c.i.a.l_n.i.c.e, in the description of the “Without You” video.

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