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Machel Montano (born 24 November ) is a soca artist from Trinidad and Tobago. He is the lead of the soca band Xtatik. He had his first hit as a youth with "Too Young To Soca".^[1] He then won the Caribbean Song Festival.^[2]

Biography

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Montano was born in Curepe (Northwestern Trinidad), and his family moved to Siparia, (Southwestern Trinidad), when he was very young.[6] He attended Siparia Boys' R.C., then Presentation College, a prestigious secondary school in San Fernando, where he was in the choir led by Mrs Cynthia Lee-Mac.[6] Machel first shot to fame as a nine-year-old boy with the song "Too Young To Soca" while he was still in primary school.

In , along with his older brother Marcus and neighbours, the group Pranasonic Express was started and, in , the band became Xtatik. In April, , at the age of 11, Montano appeared on the mainstream television show, Star Search.[7] In , he took part in the Trinidad and Toba