About
Kes the Band is the soca group behind "Hello", which has racked up more digital streams than any other soca song of the last decade. Formed in Trinidad in 2005, they never stuck to one lane, mixing R&B, pop, rock, EDM and reggae into the carnival sound. Frontman Kees Dieffenthaller won the International Groovy Soca Monarch title in 2011, the same year "Wotless" earned a BET Soul Train Music Award nomination. Later, Kes teamed up with Iwer George to take both the 2020 International Soca Monarch and Road March crowns. The band has put out ten albums, starting with Three Baldheads and a Dread and running through to Man With No Door. Along the way they've worked with Snoop Dogg on a remix of "Stress Away", plus Joss Stone, Shaggy, Busy Signal, Shenseea, Major Lazer and Tessanne Chin. Their song "Tuesday On The Rocks" got so big it spawned its own annual concert on the Tuesday before Trinidad's Carnival.
