Since the passing of his father, Carnival has taken on a new meaning for Kees Dieffenthaller. “People may like it for different reasons, but Carnival has become a lot more of a spiritual situation for me." As he sat with Newsday earlier this week to talk about the making of his Road March contender, Savannah Grass (SG), and the impact his late father George “Bunny” "Pops" Dieffenthaller had on the song and his career, the soca artiste waxed temperamental.
"It is spiritual warfare in some ways too. You have to look at it in that way, but at the same time this energy you expend and this Carnival have become more purpose driven, of legacy and why am I here? Why am I doing this? And what is my purpose here? Why did I grow up how I grew up? And who taught me what? Why? Because after they go I have it. I am responsible for this so then what? So that’s where it has reached now for me in Carnival. That expression has become more of a purpose, especially when Pops passed.”
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/02/21/the-sanctity-of-the-savannah-grass/
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