Ninja Dan Rises To The Occasion For Julien Alfred

Sixteen years ago, Johnathan “Ninja Dan” St. Rose took to the stage for the Soca Monarch competition with a sterling rendition of the song “Rise.” “I know we gonna make it, I know we gonna make it, Saint Lucia gonna make it, I know we gonna make it, make it,” he sang. He went on to highlight the success of the “big” islands – Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, and Barbados while declaring: “Well it’s now our nation get big.” Ninja Dan also championed the call then for Darren Sammy to be on the West Indies cricket team. Sixteen years later, Sammy has made it to the West Indies team and carried the team to victory in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and so much more. Sixteen years later, Saint Lucia has indeed made it on so many levels, but none as inspirational as the success of Julien Alfred. Therefore, it is quite fitting that sixteen years later Ninja Dan and Studio 758 would reunite for a refix of “Rise”, in honour of Alfred. Ninja Dan puts the process at arriving at the refix for “Rise” into context for St. Lucia Times. “Well after the Olympics and Juju got Gold,...