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Reg­gae artiste Siz­zla has re­ject­ed as false a claim that he de­mand­ed a fee equal to that of fel­low Ja­maican artiste Vy­bz Kar­tel to close the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val af­ter Kar­tel failed to ap­pear.

Kar­tel’s fee was US$1.35 mil­lion to per­form in Trinidad.

Pro­mot­er Dane An­der­son told re­gion­al me­dia that Siz­zla’s team re­vised their fee up­wards af­ter learn­ing that Kar­tel would no longer per­form. Ac­cord­ing to An­der­son, the new de­mand matched Kar­tel’s con­tract­ed amount—an in­crease he said was not fea­si­ble due to the fes­ti­val’s strained bud­get.