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home : lifestyle September 02, 2010


5/29/2009 4:08:00 PM
It'll be a battle of top R&B performers
R&B greats BLACKstreet and Jagged Edge to compete in a ‘sing-off’
Want to see a ­soundclash?
• What: R&B soundclash with BLACKstreet (featuring Levi and OJ) and Jagged Edge (featuring Kyle and Wingo)

• When: Friday June 5

• Time: 7:30pm.

• Where: Ruth Seaton James Auditorium, Cedarbridge

• Tickets: Students $20, Adults $30. Sold at: Jazzy Boutique, People's Pharmacy and www.bdatix.bm.

Helen Jardine


If the lyrics, "I like the way you work it (no diggity) I got to bag it up" mean anything to you - even if they don't - you'll be sure to enjoy an upcoming evening of entertainment.

Grammy award-winning R&B groups BLACKstreet and Jagged Edge will be verbally battling it out in a mock 'sing-off' on Friday June 5.

Both groups found fame in the 1990s and have been featured continuously on MTV and BET ever since.

BLACKstreet hits include No Diggity, Before I Let You Go and Don't Leave Me, while some popular Jagged Edge songs include Let's Get Married, Where the Party At and Promise.

All-male

The all-male groups are being brought to the island by the Bermuda 400th ­Anniversary Youth Task Force - a group of young Bermudians organizing events to recognise the ­island's milestone birthday.

The event's producer Kevin Bean said: "There is a lot of buzz around this show.

"Young people have never been involved in an event like this on this level ever in Bermuda.

"It's a great choice of show - to have two Grammy-award ­winning groups competing against each other in a fun way and come together at the end. They will be high energy and very entertaining.

"It's going to be a very fun show."

Former American Idol winner Jordin Sparks was originally scheduled for the event but was unable to come due to ­"unforeseen circumstances."

The cost of the tickets is $20 for students and $30 for adults.

"It's not a money-making event," Mr. Bean explained.

"Proceeds will just about ­recoup the costs of putting it ­together - that's why the ticket prices are so low."

Organizers are looking to seat about 600 people.

Positive buzz

Former Miss Teen Bermuda and current Youth Task Force Leader Alexa Lightbourne, said so far the buzz around the show has been very positive.

"People are excited to have this event," Alexa said.

"It's a positive event facilitated by our country's young people.

"Youth often say that there isn't anything positive for them to do, well this is a positive alternative for them to get involved not only by coming to the concert but also being a part of the youth task force.

"Additionally, we would ­impress upon the adults to come out and support the youth ­because they often have negative things to say about the youth, but we are youth working hard to bridge that gap between the old and the new.

"We have an older group BLACKstreet clashing with a young group Jagged Edge - ­depicting that by working ­together we can come together as one not only in a concert but as a community."

Local acts

There are also several local acts participating in this event including; Twanee Butterfield, Jonae Smith, Aimee Bento and Miguel Estrella.

Youth Task Force coordinator Gladstone Thompson was asked to start up the group in December.

"We have a good cross-section of 17 young people in the Task Force," he explained.

" We've everyone from youth parliamentarians, graduates of the Mirrors programme and school students from both private and government schools.

"Our aim is for them to put ­together signature events so that young people feel they have been included in the 400 celebrations.

"It's important that they feel ­included because young people represent our future and to make them feel responsible for that ­future, we need to include them in activities today."

So far the group have organized six youth 'signature events.'





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