Last year Balika Seenarine won the best newcomer prize at the Guyana Chutney Monarch Competition.
This year the talented and dynamic singer from Region 5 (Mahaica/Berbice) is going for the crown and nothing less.
She is ready, she told Chronicle last week.
And she will be going with the best wishes and support of the Administration of her home Region.

Regional Executive Officer Ovid Morrison arranged for the young lady to get a monetary gift from the Region to support her with expenses related to her participation in the competition.
In a short presentation ceremony Morrison described her as a “citizen of the region” and therefore entitled to support from the Administration inn her quest for her first win .
Last year, Balika told Chronicle, her hit tune was entitled Indian Gyal a classic , feel the rhythm,chutney song about herself.

This year her song is entitled Dulahin Chalay Sasural another typical chutney sizzler which is a song about an Indian newlywed girl going to live at the home of her in-laws.
Balika who started singing from the age of nine at Mandirs, told Chronicle that this song explains Hindu wedding customs, such as the four day process of a Hindu wedding starting with what happens on Maticore night, then dulawa night and then the wedding day. The traditional stuff. You will feel the rhythm. I think its good enough to win the monarchy,” she said.

She will be backed by the Shakti Strings Orchestra.
She is upbeat, dynamic and confident.
“I know I am good . I am aiming for the top; aiming to be a true professional one day and be an inspiration to other young artistes,” she said.
“Next week competition will be another step upwards for me,” she said.

The Guyana Chutney Monarch Competition, seen by many as “showdown” between fifteen competitors, Balika included, will take place at Canje in Region 6 (East Berbice/Corentyne) on the evening of Saturday February 18th next.
Ms Seenarine expressed her appreciation for the support of the Region 5 Administration in her challenge for the crown. (END).