- In December 2015, she published her autobiography in "The Crossover.".
- She released her first pop album in 1978, "Natural," before entering the field of calypso, soca and chutney music.
- Plummer held several white-collar jobs until her mid-thirties, including working as a computer operator at Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company. She then started performing pop music at nights at small bars and hotels throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
- She started her professional career singing at bars and hotels throughout Trinidad & Tobago before landing a job at the Chaconia Inn in Maraval where she sang pop, reggae, and country and western songs.
- She won Best Vocalist Junior and Senior categories at Music festivals, as well as talent competitions "12 and Under," "Teen Talent," and "Scouting for Talent.".
- She has performed in the Caribbean, USA, England, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, and Ireland.
- Plummer was a calypso and gospel singer from Trinidad and Tobago.
- She initially faced significant prejudice in a genre traditionally seen as Afro-Caribbean, but was eventually recognised as a leading calypso performer.
- In 2001, she won the Calypso Monarch title with her song "Nah Leaving".
- She initially stayed away from calypso due to the stigma around white, middle- or upper-class people performing it, and due to the "smutty" perception of women who performed the genre. She later decided to leave her day job to pursue music full time, and between 1977 and 1983 she recorded some of the pop songs she typically performed.
- In 1988, she reached the National Calypso Monarch finals and also won the Calypso Queen crown.
- Denise Plummer sang with the Holy Name Convent junior, senior and folk choirs.
- In a calypso world that had been dominated by local Black male singers, Plummer made her professional debut in 1986 to a local audience that was not quite ready to accept a female calypsonian with a White father and a Black mother. She persevered and went on to capture many Female Calypso Crowns.
- In 2011, Plummer was involved in the Welfare of Health for Special needs kids.
- For her contributions to culture she was awarded the Humming Bird Medal (Gold) in 2011.
- Released fifteen albums.
- Has two sons.
- Her white father Dudley "Buntin" Plummer played guitar in the folk band Le Petite Musicale.
- She performed at churches in Trinidad and Tobago, and also performed at gospel concerts and abroad.
- A high energy, vivacious performer whose costumes often featured vast plumes of feathers and elaborate head dresses, she was as much at ease with frantic party tunes as with the more traditional calypso fare of heartfelt pleas for national unity and progress.
- The finals of the Calypso Monarch competition are held each year on the Savannah, a park in Port of Spain, where singers deliver two compositions written specifically for that year's carnival. Plummer won her crown in 2001 with a pair of excellent songs, Heroes and Nah Leaving, which impressed the judges not just with their melodies but with their consideration of topics such as racism and societal violence. Plummer's triumph in 2001 was in marked contrast to her fraught debut in the competition in 1986, when, during the semi-finals at Skinner Park in San Fernando, sections of a large and vociferous crowd jeered her throughout, pelting her on stage with various unsavoury objects.
- After years of making pop songs, some of which were released as local recordings, in the mid-80s Plummer began to turn more decisively to calypso, and in 1985 she was asked by the leading steel pan arranger Len "Boogsie" Sharpe to sing two songs with his band Phase II. That led to invitations to perform in the calypso tents that spring up around Trinidad in the run-up to carnival, and then to her first, traumatic attempt at the Calypso Monarch crown.
- She expressed gratitude for her long and illustrious career during a charity event hosted by the Denyse Plummer Foundation on May May 13th 2023.
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