Among its variety of meanings, the term ‘infallible’ comes with the definition of knowing truth with certainty. Certainly, that was proven at Christopher’s last Thursday evening when Tanya Stephens in showcasing her newly released Infallible album, confirmed that she was one of dancehall’s most influential female artistes.

As a starter, the musically infallible entertainer attracted the largest crowd ever seen at this venue, a fact that has been corroborated by the management of the club where live music takes centrestage on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

While confirming her position at the top of the dancehall ladder, the “Rebelution Ruff Rider” caused more than a stir with her performance which made up for the extra long wait. With a vivid display of her wide-ranging imagination she would often interpose some conscious, uplifting reasoning for self-impowerment. And the wide cross-section of patrons of all age groups proved that they were indeed “ready fi dis” by not only screaming and singing along with her non-stop, but kept flashing their cellular phone cameras as well.

It was a performance that left no doubt that “big things a gwaan” for Tanya Stephens whose crowding-pleasing stint was divided in two segments. In the first, she fulfilled the expectation of the massive turnout by connecting with her huge fan base with about all of her previous hits. From there on she could do no wrong.

She returned after the break, delivering the stuff that makes for the infallibility of her new set that will be available for free. The intimacy of the venue was an advantage to which she would later attest. “The good thing about this experience is I feel nice when you sing along with me some of these songs that I don’t even remember,” she once admitted.

The interaction with her audience flowed easily as she would often pause to also extend some inspirational counselling to her intoxicating fans who by now were eating out of hands and heart.

“…People will always talk. And if you are a part of the topic or you are the topic it means you really are very important. So, instead of trying to counter the talking, just flow with it. Make it be the wave, the tide weh carry you go to yuh goal…,” Tanya Stephens told her fans.

Before returning to her musical menu she asked for the music to cease in order further advise, “This is a very important issue to me. I really, really, really detest discrimination of every sort. And one of the most damaging forms of discrimination that wi facing right now, is the discrimination against people living with HIV.

“We have created an atmosphere for them to live in, in which they can’t survive. It is not something that’s air borne to the best of my knowledge. You don’t get it by embracing somebody. You don’t get by hugging them and letting them feel better about themselves, to make them continue with their life. But we have created an atmosphere within which it is almost impossible to survive once you get diagnosed. And I would really like to see that change within my lifetime.”

With that said, Tanya Stephens continued her erformance with her dedication to HIV positive people by singing the song I’m Still Alive, followed by a slew of others like No Means No, Sudung Pon It, What Would You Do, I Try, Can’t Eat, Can’t Live Without Me, How You Flex, These Streets and from her new set much more.

“To be honest with you doing this album for free hasn’t really detracted anything from me at all. Because previously when I would have done an album for a label, it would have been indirectly be free anyway. So what I did I cut out the unnecessary middle-man and went straight to the people that support me,” the artiste about whom a mesmerised male patron said “a di mumma dat”.