Denis Chabrol is new Guyana Press Association Head
Kaieteur News
June 29, 2004
THERE is to be a Trinidad soca invasion at the Thirst Park ground shortly and
Destra Garcia famous for the song ‘Whey Yuh Want’ is among those coming to Guyana.
Most people know the on stage artiste who travelled extensively but not the individual offstage.
Destra has been singing since her school days. She said,”I sang every year for five years at school and won the Calypso Monarch on every occasion. I also wrote all my calypsoes.”
At the age of eighteen, Destra hooked up with a producer at Caribbean Sound Basin and formed the four-member group called PSYKE that focused mostly on singing R & B. The group only lasted for one year.
At one point, Destra decided that she must not depend on singing to earn a living. With this in mind she decided to continue with her education. She attended the School of Business and Management where she earned her diploma in Selling and Sales Management.
Armed with her degree, she began working in the business field. But soon Destra found out that she was not ‘cut out’ for the business field and decided to return to singing.
Through it all, Destra kept on singing for the love of the music. In 1999 things eventually paid off when she sang “Ah Have A Man Already” with Third Base. It just so happen that this was when Ms. Garica was discovered by Roy Cape. Destra went on to become the lead female singer for the Roy Cape All Stars.
She made her official debut back in 2000 at Iwer George’s “Property” party. Since then Destra has been doing what she enjoys most of all singing and performing for the people. Said Garcia, who was born in November 1977 in Trinidad and Tobago:
“When I am up there performing, I feel the music as I move and I know it’s great to be a woman. I reveal in my sensuality. I want women to look at me and say ‘Way to Go Destra’, because I am representing them and I look good doing so.”
Today, Destra is the lead female vocalist of the legendary band Atlantik.
In 2003 Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago, Destra came in second place in the Road March Competition with the major hit song “Carnival”
Some of Destra’s follow-up hit songs are “Whey you want”, “Boodie”, and “Choo-Choo”. She said her main goal was to create her own solo album, which she has done titled “Red, White, Black”