Achievements
Apart from dominating the charts in the Caribbean, Rupee has also gone gold in Japan and in most of Europe. Furthermore, "Do The Damn Thing" (DTDT), a bonus track from his latest album, 1 On 1, recently featured in an episode of the American TV series, Desperate Housewives.
Over the years Rupee has amassed a number of Party Monarch and Road March titles not only in Barbados, but also at West Indian Carnivals in the United States and Canada. His most popular hits have included "Ice Cream", "Jump" and the internationally released, "Tempted to Touch" and "What Happens In De Party".
In 2007, Rupee along with Jamaican Shaggy and Trinidadian Fay-Ann Lyons recorded the official song for the 2007 Cricket World Cup - "The Game of Love and Unity" - written by Rupee.
He has worked with artists such as Shaggy, Sean Paul, Thara Prashad, Fay Ann Lyons, Alison Hinds, T.G E.N.T, Lil' Kim, Kevin Lyttle, Daddy Yankee, Wisin & Yandel, Rihanna, Khatera, Shirin and Elisha.
In 2011 during the Crop Over festival season Rupee won the Starcom Network group of radio station's title of "People's Monarch" with his song "I Am A Bajan.
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“There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)