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Youry Fleming: the songwriter the credits tell, from Tolly Boy’s YMW to WOOD WOOD

Published October 20, 2026

Youry Fleming is a songwriter from Saint Martin whose public name lives almost entirely in credits. Platforms credit him as songwriter of the three Tolly Boy’s YMW singles, “Get on Bad” in 2018, “Oú Paté Vwey” in 2019 and “GoDownGoDown” in 2020, then as performer and songwriter of “Lucy Lucy” in 2021 under the short name Youry, and as the artist behind “WOOD WOOD” and its remix in 2021 and 2022 under the name Youry Ymw. This profile builds his portrait from that credit record alone, strictly separating what he wrote for the group from what he performed under his own name, and stating in plain words what the public record does not hold. It is a short profile because the record is short, and this site prefers a short and exact profile to a long and invented one.

Who Youry Fleming is: a songwriter name before a stage name

Youry Fleming first appears as a songwriter name. On platform listings, he is credited as Songwriter on the records of the Saint Martin circle gathered under the name Tolly Boy’s YMW, and his name travels there under several published forms that first have to be lined up. The reference form of this profile is Youry Fleming, the one in the credits of “Get on Bad” and “WOOD WOOD”. The “GoDownGoDown” listing publishes the reversed form Fleming Youry. The “Oú Paté Vwey” listing publishes the fullest form recorded, Fleming xavier Youry, with a second element, xavier, written in lower case in the listing. No source consulted publishes any civil record beyond those credit forms, and this profile reports them as credit forms, not as a birth certificate.

Beside that songwriter name, two short artist names carry his own records. The single “Lucy Lucy”, released in 2021, is credited to Youry, plain, and its listing names Youry Fleming as Performer and as Songwriter: it is the only listing consulted where the two functions, writing and performing, are joined under his full name. The singles “WOOD WOOD” and “Wood Wood Remix” are credited to Youry Ymw, where Ymw takes the initials of the brand of the circle, YMW, the label of the Tolly Boys. The same Youry returns under that Youry Ymw form as featured artist on “Payé” by Wizito in 2023 and on “Dirty Woman” by deejay twix the same year. One songwriter, two short artist forms, one circle: that is the whole documented public identity of Youry Fleming.

The geography of the record is that of the circle. The Tolly Boys are a bouyon act from Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the island of Saint Martin, documented on this site through the Tolly Boy’s YMW singles and through an academic study describing the group as local performers of bouyon whose songs schoolchildren sang in class. Youry Fleming is the published songwriter of those singles, and his solo records come out on the same home label, YMW. This profile therefore ties him to Saint Martin through the only link the sources publish: his circle, his label and his credits. No source consulted gives his home community, his date of birth or his path before 2018, and none of that is printed here. Our bouyon in Saint Martin page tells the basin in which that circle works, between the English speaking Caribbean, the French Antilles and the neighbouring carnivals.

Writing for Tolly Boy’s YMW: three singles, one credited songwriter

The first block of the record is a writing block, and it must be read as one. On December 30, 2018, Tolly Boy’s YMW released “Get on Bad”, featuring Ciio and King Kembe, on the label 1087489 Records DK2. Shazam gives the record a tempo of 174 BPM, the fastest in this whole record, and credits Youry Fleming as songwriter. On February 14, 2019, “Oú Paté Vwey” came out on YMW, at 162 BPM, with the songwriter credit published under the form Fleming xavier Youry. On January 19, 2020, “GoDownGoDown” came out on YMW, at 169 BPM, with a credit to Fleming Youry. Three singles in a little over a year, three published tempos between 162 and 174 BPM, and one single songwriter name, under three spellings. On this site, the Tolly Boys page documents those records as the catalogue of the group, and this profile does not move them: they remain Tolly Boy’s YMW records, written by Youry Fleming.

The distinction matters, because it is exactly the one search engines and competing profiles blur. A songwriter credit says who wrote the record. It does not say who sang it, who produced it, or who forms the group, and no listing consulted gives Youry Fleming a performer credit on those three singles. In the carnival musics of small islands, that shadow writer position is nevertheless a central one: the hooks Sint Maarten schoolchildren sang, and which the academic study quotes for the most famous song of the group, come from a pen, and the only pen the platforms name for the published singles of the group is that of Youry Fleming. This profile does not turn that finding into a leader role the sources do not state. It says what the credits say, and it stops where they stop.

The published tempo of those three records also sketches the signature of the circle he wrote for. 174, 162 and 169 BPM: the extreme zone of carnival musics, that of records built for the road, for the moving fete and for the low dance that the title “GoDownGoDown”, written as one word, announces in its own name. That is the zone in which the writing of Youry Fleming was first exercised, on short, fast and collective records, before moving, the following year, to records under his own name and at very different tempos.

The solo step: Lucy Lucy, WOOD WOOD and the remix with Motto and King james

The first record where Youry Fleming steps in front of the microphone, according to the published credits, is “Lucy Lucy”. Released on March 17, 2021, by Turnt Up Tv Records, under the artist name Youry, the record shows 160 BPM and the English language on its Shazam listing, and its credits name Youry Fleming twice: as Performer and as Songwriter. That double credit is the cleanest piece of the solo record. It separates this record from the whole Tolly Boys block: here, and only here in the sources consulted, the songwriter of the group singles is also the published performer of a record under his name. The label, Turnt Up Tv Records, also differs from the home label YMW: the solo step of 2021 passes through a structure outside the circle, before the return to the home brand for the next record.

On October 23, 2021, “WOOD WOOD” came out on YMW under the name Youry Ymw, in the Dance genre according to Shazam, with Youry Fleming credited as songwriter. Its published tempo, 111 BPM, surprises in this record: it is by far the slowest of the records tied to his name, far from the 162 to 174 BPM of the Tolly Boys YMW singles and the 160 BPM of “Lucy Lucy”. The Shazam page of the record shows a counter of more than 6,300 Shazams, the only spot listening figure recorded in this whole record, reported here as a platform counter at the date of consultation and not as a career total. On March 25, 2022, the record returned as “Wood Wood Remix”, again on YMW and at the same published tempo of 111 BPM, featuring Motto and King james, and again with Youry Fleming as credited songwriter. King james, written that way in the listing, is a name of the carnival circuit of the region, already present in the orbit of Saint Martin, and Motto is a soca artist from Saint Lucia: the remix plugs the solo record of Youry into the neighbouring soca circuit, without leaving the label of the circle.

The circulation of the record outside the platforms confirms that it lived in mixes. A published tracklist of the OSOCITY Soca Mix, on iVoox, lists “Youry Ymw (Tolly Boy’s), Wood Wood” among soca and bouyon records of the region, with the mention of the circle in brackets. Another published tracklist, that of an episode of the Soca Podcast, places “Youry YMW x Edday, Shark Wave” in a selection of records from Saint Martin and the neighbouring islands, alongside names this site documents such as Edday. This profile cites “Shark Wave” for what it is in the source: a mix tracklist title, credited to Youry YMW and Edday, with no published release listing found. It therefore does not enter the structured data of this page, which keep only records with a platform listing. Those two tracklists nevertheless say something real: the name Youry Ymw circulated in the selections of soca and bouyon DJs of the region beyond the streaming listings alone.

Guest collaborations: Payé with Wizito, Dirty Woman with deejay twix

The second public life of the name Youry is that of a guest of the circle. On February 8, 2023, Wizito released “Payé”, featuring Youry Ymw, on the label YMW Tolly Boys, at 170 BPM according to Shazam. The record belongs to the catalogue of Wizito, the artist name of Bernard Gumbs, whose page this site documents: his records of 2023, 2024 and 2025 come out on the label of the circle, and “Payé” is the junction point where the songwriter of the founding Tolly Boy’s YMW singles returns, this time as a guest voice, on a record of the next generation of the same label. The published tempo, 170 BPM, also places this feature back in the historic fast zone of the circle, that of the 2018 to 2020 singles, far from the 111 BPM of “WOOD WOOD”.

On April 13, 2023, deejay twix released “Dirty Woman”, featuring Youry ymw, on the label 3652163 Records DK, at 122 BPM, in English according to Shazam. The listing of that record is precious for the method of this profile, because it shows the reverse of the Tolly Boys block: here, Youry is the featured name shown on the title, but the published songwriter credit goes to another name, sulivan saïm elice, written that way in the listing. In other words, on “Dirty Woman”, Youry Fleming is documented as featured artist, not as songwriter, exactly as, on the Tolly Boy’s YMW singles, he is documented as songwriter, not as billed performer. Reading the credits line by line, record by record, is the only way not to credit him with what is not his, in one direction or in the other.

After April 2023, the sources consulted publish no new record under his name, as headline artist, as guest or as songwriter, except for the continuing life of the label YMW Tolly Boys, which releases the records of Wizito in 2024 and 2025 with no published credit to Youry Fleming on the listings consulted. That silence is part of the record and it is written here as such: it could mean a pause, work under other name forms, or records the consulted platforms do not tie to his songwriter name. This site chooses none of those hypotheses. It records the last published date of the record, April 2023, and waits, to complete this profile, for verifiable listings or statements.

Why Youry Fleming matters, and what this profile does not know

Youry Fleming matters because bouyon in Saint Martin, like every small island carnival scene, rests on songwriters the posters do not name. The Tolly Boy’s YMW singles have an unusual documented existence for an act of that size: an academic study told their reception in a primary school on Sint Maarten, and the platforms publish their dates, their labels and their tempos. In that record, one single name returns at the place where songs are born: that of the songwriter. Giving Youry Fleming his own page, distinct from that of the Tolly Boys, is applying at the level of a Saint Martin circle the rule this site applies to the founders of Dominica: origin credit and writing credit are facts, and they deserve a name and an address. To place that circle in the history of the genre, our history of bouyon page recalls that bouyon was born in Dominica with WCK, and that its bouyon soca branch, started by Dada in 2003 according to the signed testimony of Sean “Smokiller” Francis, a Dominican-born producer, became the travelling form that the northern islands, Saint Martin among them, remade in their own way.

This profile then states its limits, because they are almost the whole record. No published biography of Youry Fleming was found: no date or place of birth, no home community on Saint Martin, no interview, no path before the “Get on Bad” credit in December 2018. No verified official account was confirmed during this research, so this page links to no social profile and no platform artist page. His published performer catalogue holds in five records documented by listings: “Lucy Lucy”, “WOOD WOOD”, “Wood Wood Remix”, and the two 2023 features, “Payé” and “Dirty Woman”. His songwriter catalogue for Tolly Boy’s YMW holds in three singles. That is little, it is dated, it is verifiable, and that is exactly why this site publishes it that way, with no filler.

In the meantime, listening follows the order of the credits. Start with “Lucy Lucy”, the only record where he is published as performer and songwriter at once, then “WOOD WOOD” and its remix with Motto and King james, for the solo step on YMW. Then hear the records he wrote for others, “Get on Bad”, “Oú Paté Vwey” and “GoDownGoDown” by Tolly Boy’s YMW, documented on the Tolly Boys page, then his 2023 features, “Payé” by Wizito and “Dirty Woman” by deejay twix. Our bouyon playlist gathers the new releases of the northern Caribbean followed by Bouyon Shattaz, the exact musical region where the name of Youry Fleming circulated, first in the credits, then on the titles.

Frequently asked questions

Did Youry Fleming sing the Tolly Boys records?

The published credits do not say so, and that is the central distinction of this profile. On “Get on Bad” in 2018, “Oú Paté Vwey” in 2019 and “GoDownGoDown” in 2020, Shazam credits Youry Fleming as songwriter of the Tolly Boy’s YMW records, without giving him a performer credit on those listings. The only record where he is published as both performer and songwriter is “Lucy Lucy”, released under the name Youry in 2021. This site therefore does not reassign the group records to Youry Fleming as performer.

Under which names is Youry Fleming credited?

Under several published forms: Youry Fleming, the reference form, Fleming Youry on “GoDownGoDown”, and Fleming xavier Youry on “Oú Paté Vwey”, the fullest form recorded in the credits. As an artist, he appears under the short forms Youry, for “Lucy Lucy” in 2021, and Youry Ymw, for “WOOD WOOD”, its remix and his 2023 features.

Which solo records of Youry Fleming are verified?

Two headline records are documented by platform listings: “Lucy Lucy”, released on March 17, 2021, by Turnt Up Tv Records, at 160 BPM, where he is credited as performer and songwriter, and “WOOD WOOD”, released on October 23, 2021, on YMW, at 111 BPM, followed by the “Wood Wood Remix” with Motto and King james on March 25, 2022. Two 2023 features complete the list, “Payé” by Wizito and “Dirty Woman” by deejay twix.

Who wrote “Dirty Woman” by deejay twix, where Youry ymw is featured?

According to the Shazam listing of the record, released on April 13, 2023, by 3652163 Records DK at 122 BPM, the credited songwriter is sulivan saïm elice. Youry ymw is the billed featured artist there, not the published songwriter. It is the exact mirror of the Tolly Boy’s YMW singles, where he is the published songwriter without being the billed performer.

Where does Youry Fleming come from?

His published record ties him to Saint Martin through his circle: he is the songwriter of the singles of Tolly Boy’s YMW, a bouyon act from Sint Maarten, the Dutch side of the island, and his solo records come out on the label of the circle, YMW. No source consulted publishes his home community, his place of birth or his path before 2018, and this site does not invent them.

What is “Shark Wave” by Youry YMW and Edday?

It is a title recorded only in the published tracklist of an episode of the Soca Podcast, which places it in a selection of records from Saint Martin and the neighbouring islands. No platform release listing was found for that title during this research: this profile cites it as a trace of circulation in mixes, and does not place it in the structured data of the page, which are kept for records documented by a listing.

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