Born Hollice Mapp in Grenada, Mr Killa is the first non Trinidadian soca singer to win the International Power Soca Monarch title.

He started his career by winning a teen contest at age 15. Two years later he won his first National Soca Monarch title in 2004 with “Thunder Rags.”

This earned him a place in Trinidad and Tobago’s International Soca Monarch competition in 2005 where he finished in the top 5. In 2006 Killa won Grenada’s Groovy and Soca Monarch titles. He pulled another double-win three years later by winning the Soca Monarch and Road March titles in 2009.

He went viral in 2014 with Rolly Polly, an ode to plus-sized women. He did it again with Oil It in 2018 that went viral and lead to a #oilitchalleng.

Mr Killa is one of the most renown soca artist internationally, he exported soca to Europe, China and Central America.