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Ted La: the name the platforms spell two ways

Published October 20, 2026

Ted La is a voice of Guadeloupe bouyon whose name reaches the public under two spellings that do not quite overlap. Under the spelling TedLa, a Spotify artist page carries 2022 singles made with LeYou, among them “ALWAYS HAVE” and “Shake It”. Under the spelling Tedla, the track listing of the Lewismelo album “Premières Notes” credits him as a feature on “VIN TCHEK NOU”, alongside Le Bluff and Leyou. No source consulted states in so many words that the two spellings name the same person, and none presents two different artists either. This profile therefore publishes both traces, the documented common point that links them, and the exact limit of what can be claimed.

Who Ted La is: one voice, one circuit, almost no archive

Ted La has no documented public biography in the sources consulted. No press article, no label page and no artist sheet tells his path, his full real name or his birthplace, and this profile invents none of them. What exists is narrower and stronger: song credits, published by the platforms themselves, which place this name at the heart of the bouyon gwada of the early 2020s.

The first bundle of traces comes from Spotify. The platform hosts an artist page under the exact name TedLa, with two 2022 singles as popular tracks: “ALWAYS HAVE”, credited to TedLa and LeYou, running 2 minutes 46, and “Shake It”, credited to Totone, TedLa and LeYou, running 3 minutes 23. A bouyon selection on the same platform, The Sound of Bouyon playlist, adds a third record, “She tell me she want”, credited to TedLa and LeYou, running 2 minutes 40. Three records, and every time the same partner: LeYou.

The second bundle comes from an album. On “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo, the track listing published by Deezer credits an artist named Tedla as a feature on the third track, “VIN TCHEK NOU”, with Le Bluff and Leyou, running 3 minutes 17. The published writing and composition credits for that record name Youri Ellapin, Keran Landre and Ted Clarin. The first name Ted therefore reappears in a third form, that of a writer name, without any source publicly linking that writer name to either of the two artist spellings.

This profile covers both spellings under a single slug, ted-la, because that is how the name circulates and how search engines present it, but it does so with the seam showing: TedLa is the spelling of the artist page and the singles, Tedla is the spelling of the album credit, and the identity of the two is demonstrated by no published source consulted. The next section details the certain catalogue, before the section that treats the two spellings question on its own.

The TedLa catalogue: three records with LeYou, in 2022

The most exposed record on the TedLa page is “ALWAYS HAVE”, a 2022 single credited to TedLa and LeYou. On the artist page consulted, it heads the popular tracks, ahead of “Shake It”. The format is that of the bouyon gwada of this period: a short record, under three minutes, built for sessions and fast sharing, with two voices sharing the song instead of a star and a passing guest.

“Shake It”, the other 2022 single on the page, widens the format to three names: Totone, TedLa and LeYou. The presence of Totone in the lead credit and the constant presence of LeYou draw the method of this circuit: collective records where voices rotate from one project to the next, and where loyalty to one partner, here LeYou, serves as a signature. For TedLa, that loyalty is even the only documented signature: every one of his verified records places him alongside the same artist.

The third record, “She tell me she want”, does not appear among the popular tracks of the artist page consulted, but it appears in The Sound of Bouyon selection published by Spotify, credited to TedLa and LeYou with a length of 2 minutes 40. That presence inside a genre selection counts for an artist with a small catalogue: it shows that his records circulate in the lists bouyon listeners use to discover the scene, in the middle of names far better documented than his.

In total, the certain catalogue of TedLa fits inside three records, all shared with LeYou, all in short formats of two to three minutes. No album, no EP and no solo single by TedLa is documented in the sources consulted, and this profile lends him none. It is the catalogue of a session artist, of the kind who keep bouyon gwada turning between two headliners, and it is on that basis, documented record by record, that he appears in the artist index of this site.

Tedla on “VIN TCHEK NOU”: the second spelling

“VIN TCHEK NOU”, come and see us or come check us in the Creole of the French Antilles, is the third track of “Premières Notes”, the album by Lewismelo. The listing published by Deezer credits it to Lewismelo as lead artist, with Le Bluff, Leyou and Tedla as features. For readers of this site, two of those names are already documented: Le Bluff, a guest voice credited on four records of the same circuit, and Leyou, for whom this record is, so far, the only verified trace. Tedla is the third guest of the session.

The place of the record inside the album sheds light on the role of these voices. “VIN TCHEK NOU” arrives in third position, after the introduction and “5 KILOS”, the record that brings together Admiral T and Shanika, and before the sessions that structure the rest of the album, “POMPÉ” with Dcamp and KEKS MAFIA, “ALOUETTE” with Lejuh, “KEY” with Virtuose and “HULLABALOO” with Jixels. In this kind of collective album, the opening places serve as a team presentation: Lewismelo shows his circle there before unrolling the collaborations one by one. Tedla is part of that presentation, on the same level as Le Bluff and Leyou.

The writing credits of the record add one piece to the file. Deezer publishes three writers and composers for “VIN TCHEK NOU”: Youri Ellapin, Keran Landre and Ted Clarin. No source consulted publicly states which writer name matches which guest voice, so this profile does not make that match in their place. It keeps only the raw fact: a writer named Ted appears in the credits of the only record where a voice named Tedla is credited as a feature.

Note also what the album sheet does not publish: no confirmed video for “VIN TCHEK NOU”, no separate production credits for this record, and no mention linking Tedla to the TedLa artist page on the streaming platforms. The credit is therefore published here for what it establishes: a voice named Tedla, invited onto the Lewismelo album, in the same feature trio as a voice named Leyou. The rest belongs to the question treated in the next section.

TedLa and Tedla: what the sources allow, and what they do not say

The question is simple to ask and it deserves an exact answer: are Ted La, TedLa and Tedla one artist under unstable spellings, or two distinct artists the platforms confuse? After research, the honest answer fits in three points. First point: no source consulted claims the identity of the two spellings. No article, no sheet and no cross credit says that the artist of the 2022 singles is the guest on the Lewismelo album. Second point: no source separates them either, by a biography, a territory or a claimed separate repertoire. Third point: the two spellings share a collaborator and a circuit, and that common point is published, not assumed.

The published common point is LeYou, also written Leyou. On the singles, he is the constant partner of TedLa: “ALWAYS HAVE”, “Shake It” with Totone, and “She tell me she want”. On the Lewismelo album, Leyou is one of the three guests of “VIN TCHEK NOU”, alongside Tedla. The same artist name, under two neighbouring cases, therefore links the two bundles of traces, inside the same small Guadeloupe bouyon circuit this site documents album by album. The platforms themselves treat these names loosely: the case of Leyou varies from one sheet to another, and so does that of Le Bluff, credited Le bluff in the Deezer listing.

In that context, the most economical hypothesis is that of a single artist whose name was entered two ways by two distributors or two different sheets: TedLa as one word with an internal capital on his artist page, Tedla as one plain word in the album credit. But an economical hypothesis is not a published fact. This profile therefore presents it as a hypothesis, attributes every record to the spelling under which it was published, and leaves the question formally open: if a primary source, the artist, Lewismelo or their teams, one day confirms the identity or the distinction of the two names, this page will be corrected and dated accordingly.

That caution is not an editing detail, it protects both possible readings. If TedLa and Tedla are indeed the same artist, merging his records under a single profile gives him back his whole catalogue instead of scattering it. If they are two people, this profile will have lent neither of them the other record, since every recording is cited with its original spelling and the junction is presented as undemonstrated. Automatic profiles, by contrast, decide without saying so: they merge near homonyms and fabricate discographies nobody signed. On a name this poorly documented, the only defensible position is this one: the published facts, the visible seam, and the question left open.

Ted La place in bouyon gwada, and the limits of the file

To place these traces, recall how the scene this site documents works. Bouyon was born in Dominica, carried by bands such as WCK, and its Guadeloupe branch, bouyon gwada, moves through networks: lead artists open their albums to a circle of guest voices, and those voices then circulate from feature to feature across the track listings of the whole scene. The neighbouring profiles on this site tell that mechanism in detail, from Leyou to Le Bluff, two of the documented partners of the two spellings of Ted.

In that economy, a session artist does not need an album to count: he needs to be called. TedLa is called three times by LeYou, including two singles published under his own artist name in 2022, and a voice named Tedla is called by Lewismelo on the album that serves as a showcase for a whole gwada generation. Whether those calls concern one man or two, they draw the same kind of place: that of the reliable complementary voice, present at the spots where the scene presents itself, in the team records.

The limits of the file must be stated as clearly as the facts. No source consulted publishes the real name of TedLa or Tedla beyond the writer credit Ted Clarin, whose link to either spelling is not publicly established. No source documents an origin, a town or an island of attachment proper to the artist, and the Guadeloupe attachment used in this profile is that of his published scene and collaborators, Lewismelo, Leyou and Le Bluff, not a biography. No verified official account was confirmed by opening an artist page, so this profile links to no social network: the only address published in structured data is the Spotify artist page opened and verified during the research.

For the listener, the entry point fits inside four records and two spellings: “ALWAYS HAVE” and “Shake It” for the TedLa page, “She tell me she want” in the bouyon selection of the platforms, and “VIN TCHEK NOU” on “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo for the Tedla credit. Our bouyon playlist and our bouyon Guadeloupe page then place that circuit inside the full landscape of the genre, from Dominica to the French Antilles.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ted La?

Ted La, published under the spelling TedLa on his Spotify artist page, is a voice of Guadeloupe bouyon documented by 2022 singles made with LeYou: “ALWAYS HAVE”, “Shake It” with Totone, and “She tell me she want” in The Sound of Bouyon selection. No public biography documents his path or his real name, and this profile says so openly.

Are TedLa and Tedla the same artist?

No source consulted states it in so many words, and none presents two different artists either. The two spellings share a published collaborator, LeYou on the TedLa singles and Leyou on “VIN TCHEK NOU” where Tedla is credited, inside the same Guadeloupe circuit. This profile therefore presents the junction as a strong but undemonstrated hypothesis, and attributes every record to the spelling under which it was published. It is the question most automatic profiles decide without saying so.

On which album does the name Tedla appear?

On “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo, whose track listing published by Deezer credits Tedla as a feature on the third track, “VIN TCHEK NOU”, running 3 minutes 17, alongside Le Bluff and Leyou.

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 links the writer name Ted Clarin to the TedLa spelling or to the Tedla spelling, and this profile does not make that match in its place.

Has Ted La released an album or a solo single?

No album, EP or solo single by TedLa or Tedla is documented in the sources consulted. All of his verified records are collaborations: three records with LeYou under the TedLa spelling, and one feature under the Tedla spelling on the Lewismelo album.

Where can I hear Ted La?

On Spotify, his TedLa artist page carries “ALWAYS HAVE” and “Shake It”, and The Sound of Bouyon selection carries “She tell me she want”. For the Tedla credit, hear “VIN TCHEK NOU” on “Premières Notes” by Lewismelo. For the bouyon of the same circuit, our bouyon playlist and our bouyon Guadeloupe page extend the listening.

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