When Spoil Bratts won the Nescafé Par­ty Time in 1992, they be­came the first dance crew to claim the crown. For the boys from Mor­vant, life changed overnight. The hys­te­ria was so in­tense that found­ing mem­ber Hamid Rah­man couldn’t even at­tend school the next day. Any time he stepped out of his house, it was pan­de­mo­ni­um. “As we pulled up on the Mor­vant taxi stand to go home, girls would point at us, scream, stare, and even run af­ter us,” Hamid re­calls. “They would say things like, ‘Oh my god! Look them!’”

The name Spoil Bratts—Hamid Rah­man, Daniel Lash­ley, John Lash­ley, Robert Grenich, Blair Col­lier, and An­der­son Walk­er—still comes up in lo­cal dance cir­cles to­day.

If you grew up in the ’90s, you would know Par­ty Time stood as the cen­tre of youth cul­ture in Trinidad and To­ba­go. It was a va­ri­ety tal­ent com­pe­ti­tion show­cas­ing dance, lip-sync­ing, and lo­cal mu­sic. More than that, it was the prov­ing ground for as­pir­ing en­ter­tain­ers—se­cur­ing a spot on that stage meant mak­ing it to the big leagues. Hosts in­clud­ed O’Brien Haynes, Re­nee Cas­tle, and Lisa Wick­ham, who helped build the plat­form at the icon­ic Up­per Lev­el Club in West Mall.