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Macomere Fifi
Eulith Tara Woods was born in Tobago where she developed her love for the stage performing with folk art groups. She came to Canada in 1987 and immediately started singing with La Petite Musicale of Toronto, a choral group whose repertoire included folk singing and Caribbean dance/theatre productions.
She started singing calypso and soca in 1998, achieving an impressive list of awards and titles; that very first year she won the Calypso Monarch of Canada title with the classic Jason Perez penned ‘Woman Made to Love’ and ‘I Ain’t Singing Dat’.
She followed that winning the 1998 People's Choice awards and later that year, the first-ever Soca Monarch of Canada and the Calypso Queen of Canada competitions. The latter she subsequently won in 2000, 2001 and 2003. Fifi’s powerful, earthy voice, a total command of calypso and roots Caribbean music, plus a strong stage presence instantly makes Macomere Fifi a crowd favourite, an status that would earn her several more People's Choice awards in Canada and the U.S.A.
A perennial competitor, challenging herself and her male-dominated calypso fraternity, in 2001 Fifi traveled to Florida and captured the Calypso Monarch of Miami title, returning to win it again in 2002, 2003 and 2008. In 2002 and 2003 Fifi won the Pan Kaiso Monarch of Canada.
In 2003, now one of Canada’s top calypso stars, Fifi heads to Trinidad to compete on the national stage, a daunting task for any foreign performer. She placed second runner-up in the Calypso Queen of Trinidad and Tobago competition and was the second reserve finalist at the Trinidad and Tobago National Calypso Monarch Competition. The following year she was a finalist in the island’s Calypso for Steelpan Competition. Macomere Fifi had stepped onto the international stage with a bang.
Macomere Fifi has raised Toronto’s profile as a calypso capital with special appearances at Notting Hill, U.K. and Atlanta, Georgia and participated in the entertainment package that was presented at the Ontario Pavillion in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C.
Back in Toronto, Fifi continued to make the news, winning the 2005 Pan Kaiso Monarch of Canada. She was a featured performer in the Caribana Festival’s delegation that flew to Hong Hong (2005) and to Chicago (2008). In 2007 she was a subject of a documentary series by Leda Serene Films & Caribbean Tales titled Heartbeat, a Canadian-Caribbean musician profile series, in association with Bravo! and Gayelle The Channel (Trinidad).
On the recording front, Fifi released a full-length CD in 2003 titled ‘Sweet As Ever’ and her works are featured on the popular compilation CDs ‘With Love From Canada’ (1999), ‘Again With Love’ (2000) and ‘Caribana Greatest Hits’ (2004).
In 2007 she was a featured singer in a CBC Radio 2’s special concert at Glenn Gould Studio. In 2008 she won the Canadian Calypso Monarch title for the second time singing ‘Take Back We Country’ and ‘Obama’ and returned to Miami, Florida to capture the Monarch and People's Choice awards. Fifi went on to win Canada’s top calypso prize for a third time in 2010 with the powerful ‘Haiti Will Rise’ and ‘Your Turn to Die’.
In spring of 2012 Fifi starred in the recent Dora-nominated musical theatre piece Obeah Opera written by Nicole Brooks, demonstrating her outstanding vocal range and versatility. It comes as no surprise when she became the four-time winner of the 2012 Canadian Monarch with ‘Never Again’ and ‘Tell Me Why’, two outstanding renditions that also won her the People's Choice award.
Macomere Fifi remains one of Canada’s top calypso talents and a beloved artist in Toronto’s blossoming international calypso and soca music reputation.
For more info contact Tara Woods at 647-979-5936 / 647-347-5936