{{Infobox musical artist | name = Fay Ann Lyons-Alvarez | image = TnT PoS Bunji+Fay-Ann Fire Fete 2014.jpg | caption = Bunji Garlin and Fay-Ann Lyons 2014 | birth_name = Fay-Ann Lyons | alias = Silver Surfer, Lyon Empress, Aza Sefu, Viqueen | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|11|5}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} | origin = [[Point Fortin]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]] | instrument = Vocals | genre = [[Soca music|Soca]] | occupation = Performer, recording artist, singer/songwriter, Chairperson of Caribbean Prestige Foundation | years_active = 2002–present | label = | associated_acts = [[Bunji Garlin]], Asylum Band (2008–Present), Invazion (up to 2005) | spouse = [[Bunji Garlin]] | website = http://www.asylumfamily.com/ }}
'''Fay-Ann Lyons-Alvarez''' (born November 5, 1980) is a [[Trinidad and Tobago|Trinidadian]] [[Soca music|soca]] recording artist and songwriter. She is also known by the stage names Lyon Empress, Mane the Matriarch, and the Silver Surfer, a nickname which she claimed during her performance at the 2008 [[International Soca Monarch]]. Personally she's married to [[Bunji Garlin]].
==Early life and career== Fay-Ann was born in [[Point Fortin]], [[Trinidad]] to parents Austin Lyons (sobriquet [[Superblue]]/SuperBlue, formerly known as Blueboy) and Lynette Steele<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/ttEventSearchClient/queryEntry.m?type=births|title=Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages|website=rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt|access-date=2012-01-21|archive-date=2012-12-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121204085959/https://rgd.legalaffairs.gov.tt/ttEventSearchClient/queryEntry.m?type=births|url-status=dead}}</ref> (sobriquet Lady Gypsy), who is also a sister to Winston "Gypsy" Peters, hence the gypsy part of her stage name.
Fay-Ann Lyons is a three-time Trinidad and Tobago [[Carnival Road March]] champion (2003, 2008, 2009) and the 2009 [[International Soca Monarch]] and International Groovy Soca Monarch champion. She created history (again) when she won the International Soca Monarch for the first time in 2009, as the first female to win the Power category, and the first individual (male or female) to win the Power, Groovy and People's Choice awards on Fantastic Friday (aka [[Trinidad and Tobago|Carnival]] Friday) during the finals of the competition which is held annually in Trinidad. She also went on to win the Carnival Road March that year, becoming the first soca artist to win that soca 'triplet' of titles. She is the first (and only) woman to accomplish that feat while pregnant. Fay-Ann is the youngest solo artist (male or female), still actively recording, with multiple wins of the [[Carnival Road March]] crown. ([[Machel Montano]] is the youngest male with multiple wins, now that he has four solo wins and a joint win with [[Patrice Roberts]]). Fay-Ann remains the only female artist who has won the Carnival Road March three times, and is the third to attain back-to-back wins in two consecutive years joining fellow Trinidadian Macartha [[Calypso Rose]] Lewis and [[Alison Hinds]] of Barbados. Fay-Ann and husband [[Bunji Garlin]] also became parents in 2009 to a daughter born on February 28, 2009, just a few weeks after Carnival. Fay-Ann has performed at musical events both locally and abroad. Her on-tour performance events and locations include: Washington DC (2009) & (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tv6tnt.com/news/local/fay-ann-lyons-brings-soca-to-washington-dc-tv-show/article_26dd2516-52c6-11e7-8074-c73b6fd6cae2.html|title=Fay-Ann Lyons brings soca to Washington DC TV show|website=Caribbean Communications Network|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> BET's [[106 & Park]] (2014),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://urbanislandz.com/2014/08/27/bunji-garlin-fay-ann-lyons-performs-live-on-bet-106-park/|title=Bunji Garlin & Fay Ann Lyons Performs Live On BET 106 & Park|date=2014-08-27|website=Urban Islandz|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-14}}</ref> [[Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival|Coachella]] (2015),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsday.co.tt/2019/01/03/calypso-rose-listed-for-coachella-2019/|title=Calypso Rose listed for Coachella 2019|date=3 January 2019}}</ref> [[Glastonbury Festival]] (2015),<ref name="Glastonbury">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fevatv.com/bunji-garlin-fay-ann-lyons-to-play-glastonbury-fest-read/|title=is under construction|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14|archive-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413045528/http://www.fevatv.com/bunji-garlin-fay-ann-lyons-to-play-glastonbury-fest-read/|url-status=dead}}</ref> London's Coronet (2015),<ref name="Glastonbury"/> Berlin Carnival-Germany and, BET X Live (2018). She is officially the new record holder for the most up-tempoes ever released by a female Soca musician with 28 up-tempo soca songs surpassing the previous record of 22 set by [[Alison Hinds]] in 2013. In 2003 she won [[Carnival Road March]] with "Display" and 5 years later she won it again in 2008 with " Get On " and a third time a year later in 2009 with " Meet Super Blue " she became the second female soca artiste in Trinidad and Tobago to win the Carnival Road March title with an up-tempo soca song after Sanelle Dempster and the second female soca artiste in the English Caribbean to do so in a decade after [[Alison Hinds]] of Barbados who won the Road March title in Barbados in 1996 with "Raggamuffiin".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.looptt.com/content/bunji-fay-ann-shenseea-perform-bet|title=Bunji, Fay Ann, Shenseea to perform on BET|website=www.looptt.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14|archive-date=2020-02-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200211165442/http://www.looptt.com/content/bunji-fay-ann-shenseea-perform-bet|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Background ==
Now an official member of the Asylum band (previously known as "Censation"), founded by husband, Bunji Garlin. Lyons is a former member of the band ''Invazion'' led by Naya George. Fay-Ann became a front-liner for the band Invazion and performed with them at many fete/concert events including the infamous 'Brass Festival' (now defunct) which was an annual event during the pre-Carnival season in Trinidad and Tobago featuring a musical 'battle' between the hottest [[soca music|soca]] bands.
== As songwriter ==
Fay-Ann writes many of her own songs, having learnt from her father, [[Superblue]], who has won the [[Carnival Road March]] title nine times (He is second only to Aldwyn Roberts, sobriquet [[Lord Kitchener (calypsonian)|Lord Kitchener]]), and is a seven-time winner of the Trinidad Soca Monarch competition, which is the predecessor of the current [[International Soca Monarch]]. Fay-Ann's compositions have earned several nominations and wins of Copyright Music Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) music awards including Female Songwriter of the Year and she has also received honours (listed in Awards section) from the Soca Awards Organization (SAO) for her music. Fay-Ann was profiled along with other top local and internationally renowned artists [[Machel Montano]], Bunji Garlin (and Isaac Blackman in the documentary ''Soca Power in Trinidad and Tobago'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.temporadio.co.uk/news/40|title=WELOCOME TO LIMERADIO.CO.UK|website=www.temporadio.co.uk|access-date=2009-03-06|archive-date=2009-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219055446/http://www.temporadio.co.uk/news/40|url-status=dead}}</ref> the Trinidad edition of the six part film series titled ''Musique Creole''. The documentary is available on DVD.
== Discography ==
=== Albums === * 2015: ''Raze'' (EP, [[VP Records]])
=== Singles === * 2004: ''Ain't See Nothing/Wine Yeah'' (Bacchanal 45 Records, with Micky Rich) * 2008: ''Helpless Child/Lonely Girl'' (Supersonic Sound, with [[Bunji Garlin]]) * 2011: ''All Over'' (Slu Records, with The Baron) * 2012: ''Rum Please (Remix)'' (Energy Music, with Fya Empress)
== Filmography ==
* 2006: International Soca & Groovy Soca Monarch '06 * 2007: Soca Gold 2007 * 2008: Soca Power In Trinidad & Tobago * 2008: Soca Gold 2008 * Nikki on de Promenade
== Awards ==
* NEA: Afrosoca Artist (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.looptt.com/content/fay-ann-nominated-nigerian-entertainment-award|title=Fay Ann nominated for Nigerian Entertainment Award|website=www.looptt.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-14|archive-date=2019-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413051531/http://www.looptt.com/content/fay-ann-nominated-nigerian-entertainment-award|url-status=dead}}</ref> * SAO: Soca Collaboration of the Year: ''Call Me'' (with Bunji Garlin) (2010)<ref name="tntisland.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tntisland.com/socaawards2010.html |title=2010 Soca Awards |access-date=January 21, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302175845/http://www.tntisland.com/socaawards2010.html |archive-date=March 2, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * SAO: Best Up-tempo Soca – Female: ''True Lies'' (2010)<ref name="tntisland.com"/> * NACC: Top 20 Award: ''Tribute To Super Blue'' (2009) * SAO: Hall Of Fame Award (2009) * SAO: Soca Song Writer of the Year: ''Heavy T'', ''Meet Super Blue'', ''Wine Faster'' (2009) * SAO: Overall Female Soca Artist of the Year (2009) * SAO: Female Soca Performer of the Year (2009) * SAO: Favorite Groove Soca – Female: ''Heavy T'' (2009) * SAO: Favorite Up-tempo Soca – Female: ''Meet Super Blue'' (2009) * COTT: Soca of the Year: ''Get On'' (2008) * SAO: Female Soca Performer of the Year: ''Get On'' (2008) * SAO: Overall Female Soca Artist of the Year: ''Get On'' (2008) * SAO: Favorite Up-tempo Soca – Female: ''Get On'' (2008) * SAO: Soca Song of the Year: ''Get On'' (2008) * COTT: New Songwriter of the Year: ''Display'' (2004) * COTT: Female Songwriter of the Year: ''Display'' (2004) * COTT: Song of the Year: ''Display'' (2004)
;List of abbreviations NEA: Nigerian Entertainment Award COTT: Copyright Organisation of [[Trinidad and Tobago]] NACC: National Action Cultural Committee ([[Trinidad and Tobago]]) SAO: Soca Awards Organization [http://www.socawards.com www.socaawards.com]
=== Carnival crowns ===
* 2003: [[Carnival Road March]] * 2008: Carnival Road March * 2009: Carnival Road March * 2009: [[International Soca Monarch]] * 2009: Groovy Soca Monarch * 2009: International Soca Monarch: People's Choice * 2010: International Soca Awards: Best Up-Tempo Soca - Female
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==External links== * [https://twitter.com/fayannlyons Official Twitter] * [https://www.facebook.com/FayAnnLyonsAlvarez Official Facebook] * [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Asylum-Family-Bunji-Garlin-Fay-Ann-Lyons-Alvarez/49856095760?ref=mf# Asylum Family Facebook] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090224043829/http://asylumfamily.ning.com/ Asylum News] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090311015342/http://bajanforlife.com/tag/2009-soca-monarch-results/ Fay-Ann Lyons wins big!] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090223061641/http://guardian.co.tt/features/entertainment/2009/02/19/faye-ann-force-be-reckoned Faye-Ann a force to be reckoned with] * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/4c928aaf-c1d6-4d0b-bb53-a1db0f5bf4a5 Fay Ann Lyons artist page] on [[BBC]] * [https://www.vprecords.com/fay-ann-lyons/ Fay Ann Lyons artist page] on [[VP Records]].com
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