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ThaWizZarD: the keyboard hand running the new wave

Published October 20, 2026

ThaWizZarD is a producer and keyboardist in the current bouyon scene of Dominica. BuzzDA names him Cecil Joseph Jr. and credits him, on Trilla-G “Up Next Cypher, Vol. 1”, with the keys, the mixing and the mastering. The Time Warner Entertainment review of G’z Up “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)” picks out exactly the same element: keyboard melodies growing progressively wackier under the rapper rhythm switching. This profile follows his verified credits, record by record.

Who ThaWizZarD is: Cecil Joseph Jr., a studio man

ThaWizZarD is the working name of Cecil Joseph Jr. It is BuzzDA, in its coverage of the Trilla-G “Up Next Cypher”, that publishes that full name in brackets at the moment it credits him with the mixing and mastering of the project. The official Dominica Festivals site, in its profile of the artist Supalyne, separately names Cecil “thaWizzard” Joseph among the established producers Supalyne has worked with. Two published sources, one man: a Dominican producer whose stage name is written with that precise casing, ThaWizZarD, which this profile respects throughout.

His signature instrument is the keyboard. That is no arrangement detail: in bouyon, the keyboard is the historic instrument of the genre, the one WCK plugged into cadence-lypso and jing ping in 1988 to create the sound. A keyboardist producer in Dominica therefore works at the centre of the genre machine, where the looping patterns, the melodic answers and the energy that holds the dance are decided. ThaWizZarD belongs to that line of studio musicians whose work is heard everywhere, even when audiences first remember the singer name.

His role does not stop at the keys. Across the documented projects of 2026, he holds three functions that credits carefully separate: co-production, mixing and mastering. To co-produce is to build the record. To mix is to balance voices and instruments so the track holds on a phone and on a sound system alike. To master is the final hand, the one that gives a record its release volume and finish. When one name returns at all three posts, the whole project carries his sonic signature, from the first keyboard pattern to the published version.

This profile is built only on published credits: BuzzDA articles, a Time Warner Entertainment review, official YouTube descriptions of the records, and credits carried by Shazam. No verified official account of ThaWizZarD was confirmed during this research, so this page publishes no invented follower counts and no invented socials. What the credits tell is enough to draw a precise portrait: the melodic technician of the Trilla-G new wave.

Up Next Cypher, Vol. 1: the keys at the centre of the project

The project that put the ThaWizZarD name into the conversation is Trilla-G “Up Next Cypher, Vol. 1”, released by Still Trill Entertainment. BuzzDA reports its release on October 2, 2026, with a running time of almost ten minutes. The principle is the cypher principle: one instrumental, one microphone, and a line of emerging artists taking turns. Around Trilla-G himself, volume one brings together G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash, Pa Pel and Pryhmex, six voices Trilla-G wanted to present as the next generation of bouyon.

The credits published by BuzzDA divide the studio work precisely. The instrumental is by Kwib La Beats, the project of producer Shane Massicott. ThaWizZarD, for his part, handles the keys, the mixing and the mastering. In a cypher format, that triple role is decisive: six different deliveries, six energies, six ways of attacking the rhythm have to sound like one single record. The keyboards supply the melodic continuity while the voices change, and the mixing and mastering weld the whole into one piece of almost ten minutes.

The reception reported by BuzzDA gives the scale of the moment. According to the site, the cypher took the number one spot on the Apple Music Top Songs chart in Dominica and gathered 83,000 YouTube views in one week. This profile reports those figures with their source, BuzzDA, and their window, the first week of release. They say that a project designed as a showcase for the next generation became, on release, one of the most heard Dominican records of its period, with the ThaWizZarD name in its central credits.

The project also matters for what it says about how the current scene works. An established artist, Trilla-G, builds a platform, a beat producer, Shane Massicott of Kwib La Beats, supplies the base, and a keyboardist engineer, ThaWizZarD, dresses, mixes and finishes the whole. It is a modern studio division of labour, very different from the live bands of the 1990s, and it is inside that organisation that the bouyon of 2026 is made. A second volume is already announced as an expected sequel, in Trilla-G words to BuzzDA, which promises the same trio further sessions.

Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya): the record where the keyboard becomes the signature

Out of the cypher came a solo record, and it is the one that gave ThaWizZarD his first international critical reading. “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)” takes the noticed verse of G’z Up from the cypher and releases it as an official record in its own right. The official YouTube description of the track credits writing and performance to G’z Up, production to Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, mixing and mastering to ThaWizZarD, and executive production to Trilla-G. The keyboardist name therefore appears on three lines of the credit block.

On October 16, 2026, Time Warner Entertainment published a review of the track. The text describes the cypher scene filmed at an open air bar, the way G’z Up stood out from the group, then arrives at the musical heart of the record: the trick, the reviewer writes, is the casual way G’z Up switches between bouncy rhythms as ThaWizZarD keyboard melodies get progressively wackier. It is a rare sentence in bouyon coverage: a review that names the keyboardist and makes his melodic work the very mechanism of the record, the thing the rapper sets his rhythm switches against.

That reading clarifies the real role of keyboards in current bouyon. A keyboard pattern is not a background: it is a playing partner. It proposes, it climbs, it comes loose as the track advances, and the voice answers. In “Fix Up”, the “Ya ya ya!” hook holds the public ear, but the architecture that lets the record hold its variations is melodic, and it carries the ThaWizZarD name. Bouyon Shattaz documented the record on its own pages from release, and this profile extends that following to the studio side.

BuzzDA adds a measure of the solo record momentum: according to its article of October 12, 2026, the extended solo version by G’z Up, released on Saturday, October 10 with an added verse, had already gathered about 15,000 YouTube views at the time of the article. Reported with its source and its date, that figure places “Fix Up” where the new Dominican distribution is played out: first a shared cypher moment, then a solo record that keeps circulating under its performer name, with its producers in the credits for anyone who reads them.

The cypher singles: Pa Pel and the Still Trill factory

The cypher produced more than one solo record. The official description of Pa Pel “IDGAF (Bouyon 2027)”, released as a track from the Up Next Bouyon Cypher by Still Trill Entertainment, credits writing and performance to Pa Pel, production to Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, mixing and mastering to ThaWizZarD, and executive production to Trilla-G. The same credit pattern as “Fix Up”, applied to another artist of the collective: the sound factory of the project is stable, and its melodic engineer is the same man.

That repetition of credits is an important professional fact. It shows ThaWizZarD is not a one night guest on a single track, but a member of the production core of the Trilla-G platform. When a label like Still Trill Entertainment turns a cypher into a series of singles, it needs a recognisable sound from one record to the next: keyboards, mixing and mastering from one hand provide that continuity, while each artist keeps his own voice and character.

The Pa Pel title even wears its year as a programme: “Bouyon 2027”. That forward dating of records, also found on the “Fix Up” edition, is part of the language of the current scene, which publishes its tracks as season appointments. For the producer, it means a working rhythm set by releases: produce, mix and master fast enough to feed a series, without losing the finish the platforms demand.

Taken together, the cypher and its singles draw the exact territory of ThaWizZarD in 2026: the studio of the new wave gathered by Trilla-G, alongside beat producer Shane Massicott. It is a narrower territory than a stage star one, but it is strategic: everything that generation publishes passes, at one moment or another, across his keyboards and his faders. Find “Fix Up” and the new records of this scene in our bouyon playlist.

WizZarD HouSe RecorDz: his label, his own records

ThaWizZarD does not only work for others. Shazam credits a record released under his own name, “F**k who doh like me”, a duet with Kenny G, released on January 7, 2026 on the label WizZarD HouSe RecorDz, with ThaWizZarD credited as songwriter and as producer. The label name takes up the producer stage name, with the same spectacular casing: WizZarD HouSe RecorDz. This profile reports the track title in the censored form published by Shazam, and the credit as it stands: an artist producer who also releases his own music, on his own structure.

The name of that structure reappears in other credits. The YouTube description of the Frank White track “TOM DICK N HARRY”, featuring Trixx, lists a production at WizZarD HouSe RecorDs. For its part, the biography of the artist Jem Jem carried by Music Metrics Vault describes him as working with a locally renowned producer called “The Wizzard”, in alliance with his “Wizzard House” label, where Jem Jem is a songwriter and artist. Spellings vary from one source to another, and this profile reports them as published, but the bundle points in one direction: a Dominican production house organised around the ThaWizZarD keyboard.

Owning his label changes a producer status. The studio musician becomes the employer of his own sound: he can sign his records, produce those of others under one banner and build a catalogue that outlives him track after track. For the Dominican scene, these small structures matter as much as the big names, because they train artists, keep the tapes and decide what gets released. WizZarD HouSe RecorDz, as it appears in the credits of 2026, is one such structure in activity.

This side of the profile stays the shortest, because public sources on the label are still rare: no consolidated official catalogue, no verified presentation page. This site therefore publishes what is credited, record by record, and nothing more. If the label publishes its full catalogue, this profile will be the first to carry it, under the same rules: credits, dates and sources.

A producer quoted by others: Supalyne and the Dominican scene

A producer reputation can also be read in other people profiles. The official Dominica Festivals site, on its page for Supalyne, a Dominican artist who blends dancehall and bouyon, writes that the artist has worked with established people in the island music industry, first among them Cecil “thaWizzard” Joseph, alongside producer Dylan “Producer Dlo” Lowe and Kenny G. The Supalyne profile published by RichesKarayib carries the same collaboration credit. For a studio producer, being named this way in another artist official biography is a form of public recognition: his name serves as a reference of seriousness.

The Kenny G name, which returns both in that collaboration and in the ThaWizZarD solo record on WizZarD HouSe RecorDz, sketches a regular working circle rather than a single meeting. The music scenes of a small island run on circles of this kind: a keyboardist, a singer, a beat producer and a label rehearse together until the sound becomes recognisable. The ThaWizZarD circle, as the credits show it in 2026, brings together Trilla-G and Still Trill Entertainment, Shane Massicott and Kwib La Beats, G’z Up, Pa Pel, Supalyne and Kenny G.

That position connects ThaWizZarD to the long history of his instrument in Dominica. Bouyon was born from a keyboardist gesture, that of Cornel “Fingers” Phillip and his brothers in WCK, who turned the jing ping accordion into electronic keyboards. Almost forty years later, keyboardist hands still set the temperature of the records, from the Trilla-G cypher to the singles of his platform. That lineage is not claimed by ThaWizZarD in our sources, and this profile does not lend it to him as a statement: it can be read in the facts, instrument by instrument, credit by credit.

Why ThaWizZarD matters, in short: because the bouyon new wave needs names at the microphone, but also names in the credits. Without the keyboards, the mixing and the mastering of ThaWizZarD, the “Up Next Cypher” would not sound like a single record, “Fix Up” would not have its melodic architecture, and the Still Trill singles would not have their continuity. Start listening with “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)” by G’z Up, then hear the whole cypher following the keyboards: that is where his work is heard best.

Frequently asked questions

Who is ThaWizZarD?

ThaWizZarD is the working name of Cecil Joseph Jr., a producer and keyboardist from Dominica, according to BuzzDA. He is credited with the keys, the mixing and the mastering of Trilla-G “Up Next Cypher, Vol. 1”, and the Dominica Festivals site names Cecil “thaWizzard” Joseph among the established producers Supalyne has worked with.

What is the ThaWizZarD role on “Up Next Cypher, Vol. 1”?

According to BuzzDA, the instrumental of the cypher, released on October 2, 2026 by Still Trill Entertainment, is by Kwib La Beats, the project of Shane Massicott, while ThaWizZarD handles the keys, the mixing and the mastering of the almost ten minute track that brings together Trilla-G, G’z Up, Ras B, Avatar Omish, Don Lash, Pa Pel and Pryhmex.

Who produced “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)” by G’z Up?

The official description of the track credits writing and performance to G’z Up, production to Kwib La Beats and ThaWizZarD, mixing and mastering to ThaWizZarD, and executive production to Trilla-G. The record takes up the noticed verse of G’z Up from the “Up Next Cypher”.

What does the Time Warner Entertainment review say about the ThaWizZarD keyboards?

In its review of “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)” published on October 16, 2026, Time Warner Entertainment writes that the trick of the record is the casual way G’z Up switches between bouncy rhythms as ThaWizZarD keyboard melodies get progressively wackier. The review therefore makes the keyboardist work the central mechanism of the track.

Does ThaWizZarD release records under his own name?

Yes. Shazam credits “F**k who doh like me”, by Thawizzard with Kenny G, released on January 7, 2026 on the label WizZarD HouSe RecorDz, with ThaWizZarD as songwriter and producer. His structure name also appears in the credits of the Frank White track “TOM DICK N HARRY”, featuring Trixx.

Which artists has ThaWizZarD worked with?

His published credits link him to Trilla-G and his “Up Next Cypher”, to G’z Up for “Fix Up (Ya Ya Ya)”, to Pa Pel for “IDGAF (Bouyon 2027)”, each time with Kwib La Beats as co-producer, and to Kenny G on his solo record. Dominica Festivals also names his collaboration with Supalyne. Find “Fix Up” in our bouyon playlist.

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