Female duet excel in National Day song contest |20 June 2015

The group Inison, comprising Antoinette Dodin and Judith Hoareau, is this year’s grand winner of the National Day song competition with their song entitled ‘Meyer plas anba lesyel’.
They’ve received a cash prize of R50,000.

The duet said they are really glad to be the winners of this year’s competition.

“Our song was written by famous singer Jean-Marc Volcy, and it is about the colonial era, about how our culture was born, how the land was created to become the country that we are today,” the duet said.

The second prize went to Travis Julienne with his song entitled ‘Avan Tou’. He pocketed a cash prize of R25,000.
The song ‘Mon Sesel’ by Simon Amade earned the singer a cash prize of R10,000 as third prize.
All winners will perform at the National Day celebrations on June 29, 2015 during a cultural show.

Present at the prize-giving ceremony at the National Cultural Centre on Tuesday afternoon were members of the National Celebrations Committee.

The principal secretary for culture Benjamine Rose said the theme chosen for this year’s competition was ‘I Love Seychelles’, which is also the national theme for this year.
“We chose this theme to bring good values, to have better songs, good lyrics that are appropriate with the theme,” she said.

It is the first time that National Day will be celebrated on June 29 which is also Independence Day.