Morning folks,
It's Da Face again. As I write this, the sun is still a rising star (not Digicel though) but I 'eh ha no' choice since I have some interesting and some really hilarious stuff to show this week.
So Saturday started off cool. I see a partner of mine in Chaguanas up in the Edinburgh but I don't know how he got there. No scene. I travel out the road try to go in the barber shop but you know how sticky the shop could get on a Saturday morning. Is almost like men does camp out in front from the night before or something. Pressure! Leaving that out, I proceed down to the Digicel Rising Star in San Fernando without a mark and without the benefit of a smile to entice any talented female artistes to sing in front of my camera but the real problem is that I have to find some place called City Hall. Now for me this is embarrassing as a big South man (I am originally from Palo Seco) but when the mark finally buss it happened to be a building that I passed almost everyday going to school in Pres but never really took on.
Now I'm up in the City Hall and here comes the interesting part. Now if you read my last post you would remember when I said that one of the interesting features of the Digicel Rising Star competitions is again meeting contestants who like you have tried and failed to make it past the auditions stage. Well the thing is, I was still shocked when I met some of the people I saw last week. I almost didn't recognize one of the guys (his name is Iziz Machete, remember that one) because he got the barber's touch that I couldn't receive but soon we were there leaning up against the wall and catching real 'jones' on random stuff like brethren from long time. You know how we trinis do.
After that, I met up with two of my brethren and found out that they made it past the first stage of the audition which bring across another point that I didn't know: each stage of the audition has a Saturday and a Sunday part. When you get through on the Saturday you're not safe yet; you have to go back again on Sunday where they whittle down the number even smaller. It's like 75 on Saturday down to 10 on Sunday (yeah is no joke). Nevertheless I congratulated them and at this point we were all there hanging around and looking to make our next move because frankly, the auditions are pretty much boring if you're not competing; all the actual auditions take place behind closed doors so there isn't much to look at. At this point, a mad man starts to act up and I get footage of this pseudo-vagrant almost losing his life because of crack.
Tell me this not hilarious
After a long period when I'm ready to breathe again after watching the mad man, I buss it out a there with my brethren and interview them. They are both aspiring gospel artistes and one of them is bringing out a cd later this year. After this, I head home and take a sleep. And that's how it went down. Till next week people. Laterz. And one more thing, check out KeiRhon's in San Fernando (715-2583) for some real bess urban and rasta man gear...that's the store that we did the interviews in.
DL: Gospel artiste
Vokalz: Gospel artiste
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