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Rohie: the emerging voice of The Bouyon Assembly

Published October 20, 2026

Rohie is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica, whose verified public record comes down almost entirely to one night, but what a night: on Saturday, October 25, 2025, at Windsor Park in Roseau, Rohie took the stage of the 25th World Creole Music Festival as part of The Bouyon Assembly, the all bouyon segment of Night Two, alongside Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Quan, DJ MJ, Little Boy, Faithii and Ebony Empress for Dominica, with Jixels and Shanika as guests from Guadeloupe. A report published after the festival describes the collective as the crowd darlings of that night. For the rest, the record is thin to the point of one line: no listed discography on the platforms, no published biography, no verified track. This profile tells the documented night, then states exactly what is missing.

Who Rohie is: a Dominica artist known through one big stage

Let us start with what is verified, because this profile contains little else. Rohie is a bouyon artist from Dominica. The source is the festival own communication: the launch report of the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival, published by Travel Trade Caribbean from the release carried by Dominica News Online, presents The Bouyon Assembly with the artists countries stated. On the Dominica side: Rohie, Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Quan, DJ MJ, Little Boy, Faithii, billed as “Bouyon Barbie” in the same release, and Ebony Empress. On the Guadeloupe side, as guests: Jixels and Shanika. Rohie is therefore placed by the organisers themselves among the Dominican carriers of the sound, on the biggest stage of the country.

The regional press that covered the edition presents Rohie in the same terms. Caribbean E Magazine names Rohie among the emerging artists of Night Two. The report published after the festival by Black News, the site of The British Blacklist, speaks of the Assembly members as emerging bouyon voices. None of those sources gives a full name, an age, a precise town or an earlier path, and this profile invents none of them. The stage name, the island and the role are the three public biographical facts about Rohie to this day.

Everything else on the usual card is blank, and that has to be said plainly. The searches carried out for this page across Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Qobuz, YouTube, Shazam, SoundCloud, Audiomack and Genius found no artist page under the name Rohie, not a single track listed under that name, and no feature credit that can be assigned with certainty. No official account could be confirmed, so this page links to no social profile. At the date of this profile, Rohie is a stage artist before being a catalogue artist: known to the audience that saw the Roseau show, invisible to the databases.

That contrast is exactly what makes the case interesting for this site. Bouyon was born in Dominica, and its new generation is decided first live, in fetes and collective segments, before it passes through digital distributors. An artist can therefore be chosen by the country tourism authority to represent the genre at its 25th world festival, and leave no streamable trace behind. Documenting that moment, with its limits displayed, is better than waiting for a first single to start the story. Our Dominica artists page follows that whole generation.

The Bouyon Assembly: the bouyon segment of the 25th anniversary

The World Creole Music Festival is the great musical gathering of Dominica, created in 1997 and held at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau. Its 25th edition ran from October 24 to 26, 2025, under the theme “Global Echoes of the Nature Island: Celebrating 25 Years of Creole Music, Magic, and Memories”, launched by the Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority. The official lineup was announced on July 4, 2025, according to the Writeups24 report. Our WCMF Creole festival page traces the history of the event and its place in the island culture.

For that anniversary edition, the organisers built a segment that had not existed in that form: The Bouyon Assembly, an all bouyon block programmed inside Night Two, named Creole Carnival, on Saturday, October 25. The principle is a new generation assembly: instead of one name, a team of emerging Dominican voices shares the stage, Rohie, Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Quan, DJ MJ, Little Boy, Faithii and Ebony Empress, reinforced by two guests from Guadeloupe, Jixels and Shanika. The gesture is political as much as musical: for the festival 25 years, Dominica presents its national genre carried by its new generation, with Gwada bouyon as the segment guest of honour.

The company of that night measures the trust placed in the collective. The same Night Two billed WCK, the pioneers of the genre, Asa Bantan, First Serenade Band, Gordon Henderson and Ophelia Marie for Dominica, and Vybz Kartel, Spice, Kes The Band and Joé Dwèt Filé as international headliners. To be the Assembly on such a night is to be placed by the organisers in the direct continuity of the founders: the new wave programmed on the same night as the pioneers, in front of the national stadium audience. For an artist with no public discography, it is an endorsement that passes through no streaming figure.

It is worth measuring what that format changes for a name like Rohie. A collective segment does not hand out roles through individual posters: the audience remembers the energy of the block, the reports name the collective, and the solo careers remain to be built behind it. That is exactly what the sources show: Rohie is always named inside the Assembly list, never alone, never with a track attached to the name. The segment gave Rohie an immense stage and a verifiable press line. It has not yet given a catalogue, and this profile carefully separates the two things.

Saturday night, October 25: what the report says

There remains the question posters never settle: did the segment really happen, and how was it received? The answer comes from the report published after the festival by Black News, which tells the three nights from Roseau. Its sentence on the Assembly is the most precise of all the open sources for this profile: the emerging voices of the collective, Rohie, Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Little Boy, Quan, Faithii and others, turned the field into a giant jump-up session and were the crowd darlings on Saturday night. Jump up is the name the French Antilles give to party bouyon, and the image says the essential: the new generation block made the stadium dance.

The same report places the performance inside the economy of the night. Night Two leaned into carnival energy, with the Assembly, WCK and Asa Bantan trading grooves with the soca and dancehall heavyweights. The writer stresses that if the international names made the headlines, it was the Dominicans who gave the festival its heart, and he places the collective among those moments when the audience reacts out of recognition as much as novelty. It is, to this day, the only published critical trace of Rohie on stage, and it is collective, like everything else in the record.

No track performed that night is named in the sources opened for this profile: neither the report, nor the posters, nor the programme guides attach a precise song to Rohie. This profile will therefore not lend Rohie the repertoire of the others. If an official recording, a published setlist or a first single comes to document what Rohie sings, this page will be completed and dated like every page on this site. In the meantime, listening to that generation runs through its documented segment neighbours, from Ridge to Kenny G, and through our World Creole Music Festival page.

The Rohie paradox: a full stadium, zero listed tracks

The Rohie case concentrates a paradox this site meets across the current Dominican scene: the stage moves faster than the catalogue. Searches for tracks under this name first hit the global namesakes, who have nothing to do with the artist: Rohey, the Norwegian jazz and soul band led by singer Rohey Taalah; Rohi, a Japanese Vocaloid producer; and the many Arabic titles built on Rohi or Rouhi, which means “my soul”. None of those artists is the bouyon act from Roseau, and any biography mixing their paths into this one would be a namesake error, flagged here so it can be avoided.

Then, the gap is real: no claimed artist page on the major platforms, no single under the name, no verified feature, no interview found. Several readings are possible, and this profile does not choose between them. Rohie may be a live artist who has not released yet. The tracks may circulate under collective or producer accounts, with no page under this name. The Assembly may also have come before the catalogue rather than after it in a path that is only starting. What the sources allow anyone to say stops at the stage of October 25, 2025, and this profile stops there too.

That gap has a practical consequence for what comes next. In the current bouyon economy, it is listed releases that turn a stadium night into sequels: DJs look for the tracks, bookers look for the pages, the audience looks for the name. One cleanly published first single, under a constant spelling and a claimed page, would change Rohie status completely. Several members of the Assembly have taken that step and have documented profiles here. For now, Rohie is the one in the group whose written trace is the shortest.

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

Rohie matters because The Bouyon Assembly matters. For its 25th anniversary, Dominica Creole festival chose to present bouyon as a relay of generations: the pioneers of WCK on the same night, the new wave in a block right beside them, and two guests from Guadeloupe to mark the Dominica and Gwada axis of the current genre. Being one of the nine Dominican names in that block, in the official Discover Dominica Authority release, places Rohie in the family portrait the country wanted to show the world in 2025. Bouyon histories are written with such moments as much as with records.

This profile ends by declaring its blanks, because they are part of the record. No verified track: the recording list of this page is therefore deliberately empty. No published full name. No date earlier than the festival is documented in the open sources. No confirmed official account: no social link is printed. Even the detail of the October 25 performance, the songs sung and the stage time, is not published in the sources consulted. All of that can change with a single release, and the page is built to receive it.

In the meantime, the context can be heard and read elsewhere on this site: the World Creole Music Festival page for the event, our history of bouyon for the genre born in Dominica, our bouyon soca page for the branch started in 2003 by producer Dada according to the testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, and our bouyon playlist to hear the Assembly generation. Rohie is still missing there as a solo artist. Rohie is already there as a name from the most important Dominican bouyon Saturday night of the year.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Rohie?

Rohie is an emerging bouyon artist from Dominica. The official World Creole Music Festival 2025 release, carried by Dominica News Online and Travel Trade Caribbean, places Rohie among the Dominican artists of The Bouyon Assembly, with Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Quan, DJ MJ, Little Boy, Faithii and Ebony Empress. No detailed biography, no full name and no discography are published in the open sources.

What is The Bouyon Assembly?

It is the all bouyon segment created for the 25th edition of the World Creole Music Festival, programmed inside Night Two, Creole Carnival. It gathers the Dominican bouyon new wave in a single stage block, Rohie, Ridge, Pudaz, Kenny G, Quan, DJ MJ, Little Boy, Faithii and Ebony Empress, with two guests from Guadeloupe, Jixels and Shanika.

When and where did Rohie play the World Creole Music Festival?

On Saturday, October 25, 2025, at Windsor Park Sports Stadium in Roseau, Dominica, during Night Two of the festival 25th edition, which ran from October 24 to 26, 2025. The official lineup had been announced on July 4, 2025 by the Ministry of Tourism and the Discover Dominica Authority.

How did the audience receive The Bouyon Assembly?

That is the question profiles based on posters alone cannot settle, and the report published after the festival by Black News answers it: the emerging voices of the collective, Rohie among them, turned the field into a giant jump-up session and were the crowd darlings on Saturday night, alongside WCK and Asa Bantan in a night dominated by carnival energy.

What are Rohie tracks?

No verified track was found. The searches carried out across Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Qobuz, YouTube, Shazam, SoundCloud, Audiomack and Genius return no artist page, no single and no feature that can be assigned to Rohie: the schema of this page therefore deliberately contains no recording. At this date, the public record is a stage record, not a catalogue record.

Where can I hear The Bouyon Assembly generation?

Start with the documented profiles of segment members such as Ridge and Kenny G, read our World Creole Music Festival page, then hear our bouyon playlist, which mixes Dominican classics with the new wave whose face the Assembly presented in 2025.

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