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De Red Boyz is a music production unit founded in 2006 by veteran Barbadian musicians Mikey Hulsmeier & Scott Galt. Their first year of production saw them having great success both at home for Crop Over and in Trinidad for carnival. The major highlight of that year was winning the 2007 International Groovy Soca Monarch in Trinidad with their hit song Nah Goin’ Home sung by Biggie Irie. The first and only non-national to win a soca/calypso competition in Trinidad. Peter Ram with De Red Boyz produced hit Woman By My Side was also a major force at that year’s carnival. The spinoff from success in Trinidad meant that De Red Boyz now had two huge soca hits regionally and wherever in the world soca music is played and enquiries started to come in regarding Red Boyz productions. An important synergy was then formed with Trinidadian artiste Farmer Nappy who was at the time a member of Machel Montano’s Xtatik band. Farmer was about to start his solo career and came to De Red Boyz to produce what would become his first major success Chippin’ With Meh Own Woman. In the ensuing years De Red Boyz would go on to record hit songs for a virtual who’s who of Barbadian recording artistes and the collaboration with Farmer Nappy would lead to many of the top Trinidadian soca stars such as Machel Montano, Destra Garcia, David Rudder, Kes and Shurwayne Winchester following in his footsteps. Regional stars like St. Vincent’s Kevin Lyttle, Skinny Fabulous and Jamesy P, Grenada’s Tallpree and Antigua’s Tian Winter and Tizzy have also made the trip over to De Red Boyz studio in Barbados to have music produced.

De Red Boyz have now become one of the most prolific and sought after production units in the Caribbean and have worked with just about every major soca artiste as well as internationally renowned acts such as UB40, Maxi Priest, Kevin Lyttle, Shontelle, Cover Drive and reggae star Anthony B. In January of 2013 De Red Boyz travelled to The Palms recording studio in Las Vegas to produce a song for Machel Montano and mega stars Boyz II Men. De Red Boyz are five-time Producer Of The Year Award winners, twice Album Of The Year Award winners and have won numerous other awards for their albums and songs over the years at the Barbados Music Awards. Their 2008 album Mo’ Fire Blazing also made Billboard Reggae Album chart in August of that year. In addition to their International Groovy Soca Monarch win in Trinidad in 2007, they have won Party Monarch, Sweet Soca Monarch, Road March, Stag Jam Tune and People’s Monarch in Barbados. They also have a multitude of top 3 finishes in Trinidad and Barbados in all of the aforementioned competitions.