The Caribbean Song Festival was an annual song competition held among countries that are members of the

Caribbean Broadcasting Union The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) founded in 1970 is a non-profit association of public service and commercial broadcasters in the Caribbean. Its secretariat is based in Barbados. Beginning in the mid-1980s, the CBU created several regional ...

(CBU). It was the largest and highest rated song competition of the Caribbean. It is often referred to as the Eurovision Song Contest of the Caribbean, and sometimes mistakenly called the ''CBU Festival''. Each competing

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and

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holds a National Song Festival where a winner is chosen. This is aired on

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at the National competition via one of the national CBU-member

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s. The National winner and song will then be submitted to the international competition. At the Caribbean Song Festival, the finalists represent their country. The show has been broadcast on

since it premiered in 1984. "Hold You in a Song" by John King and

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won the 1992 edition of the Caribbean Song Festival.

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