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culture and the survival of our culture<br />
mean to you?<br />
Everything. My happiness is everything<br />
about St.Lucia and everything about where I<br />
came from and everything about our food,<br />
our music. My culture is very dear to me. I<br />
cannot picture my life without music,<br />
without dancing, without art. Without those<br />
things I'm nobody.<br />
You recently won the Mizik En San Nou<br />
creole song competition, what does that<br />
mean to you?<br />
That felt good. You know, I've always said<br />
we need to keep the culture alive. It's<br />
survival depends on the merging of young<br />
and old. It depends on everybody making a<br />
contribution.<br />
If we are ashamed of the language and don’t<br />
speak it we won’t pass it on you know. It<br />
will die. We cannot let that happen.<br />
You know what’s surprising – the English<br />
language is a system taught to us, the creole<br />
language was a way of life for liberation, for<br />
freedom. So to me the creole language<br />
is more powerful than we even understand.<br />
It's harsh yet so plain and straightforward<br />
you cannot go wrong with it – just bam,<br />
bam, bam. One meaning – unlike the<br />
English language that's a little more<br />
complex.<br />
What would you say has been your biggest<br />
accomplishment in life thus far?<br />
I don’t know if you’ll understand it. People<br />
tend to label accomplishments with where<br />
they've been and who they know but, I think<br />
my biggest and most difficult<br />
accomplishment was finding myself. To
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