TeenAGE Observer Expression Tour: Guy’s Hill grooves
THE second stop of this year’s teenAGE Observer Expression Tours took us to Guy’s Hill High School in St Catherine.
First up was Bruff and Company, their drama piece had lots of excitement and energy, but still had a moral lesson about teenage pregnancy.
teenAGE Observer’s trivia question followed with Tevin Lake winning at first attempt.
Roman Virgo proves to be favourite among the contestants and Guy’s Hill was no different — AJ Stephens delivering his rendition of The Rain Is Falling by the singjay.
It was time to get jiggy and Clayton Duncan and his female counterpart Victoria Brown graced the stage with their flexible synchronised moves. There were hiccups, but it was good nonetheless.
Deejay Tarrell Gordon had his audience requesting encore and he did just that and gave us more, smooth rhymes after rhymes showed us just why he said he wanted to be a musician with originals like School A Di Business Place and Shell Dem Granny.
The next trivia question saw the entire Guy’s Hill population joining heads in coming up with the answers which they got correctly.
The Supreme Girls followed with their harmonious combination of All of Me and Lean On Me.
Jameila McKoy took to the stage with her poem Resurrection of Nanny. Another skit was in store and Khrista Small and Company ably entertained and elicited much laughter once more from everyone.
Jada had something special up her sleeve; a special song which she received back-up for as she belted out Firework by Katy Perry.
Merika Henry softened the atmosphere with her sign language dance to He Wants It All, her graceful movements had enthralled and it was well received.
Alongside drama, Guy’s Hill High had lots of lyrical talent and DJ Fabulous (Stacy Ann Hinds) was next followed by Jameila and Co doing the CHIKV dance for us to the J Wayne’s Chikungunya song.
A medley was done by Dynamite Voices and then the exciting dance challenge by staff members.
Proving to be more hip than the students themselves, they certainly had a lot in store as they challenged each other and entertained thoroughly.
Richard Fraser delivered a love medley in song, before 10 Arts did another drama piece.
Mr Reynolds, teacher of Industrial Arts ‘pulled up’ the audience with his old time hits. There were technical difficulties, a series of them but that did not stop the long awaited guest artiste from making her entrance and performing.
Latty J with her beautiful ‘face and figure’ clashed alongside deejay duo Askel. She delivered well and had her audience rocking on to her every word.
Judges for the day were head boy Oswin Anderson, head girl Sherrone Gordon, and prefect Kimberly Henry.
The day ended with deejay Tarrell Gordon coming in third place, Bruff and Company taking the second spot, while Jameila McKoy took first place.
— Veronia Jackson