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  • Watch the Grammy Awards Tonight: Fela! Album is nominated!

    Copy/paste the link right below to purchase “Upside Down” or other songs from the Fela! soundtrack on Itunes!
    http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fela-original-broadway-cast/id374267023

    Fela! is nominated for Best Musical Album! It took a while to find our section on the Grammy Website but hey all the way down I found section 80! Not sure if our category is televised but I plan to enjoy the show either way!I’m thrilled!

    80. Best Musical Show Album

    American Idiot
    (Featuring Green Day)Billie Joe Armstrong, producer (Green Day, composers; Billie Joe Armstrong,
    lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast With John Gallagher, Jr., Michael Esper & Others)
    [Reprise].

    Fela!
    Robert Sher, producer (Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, composer; Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,
    lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast With Sahr Ngaujah, Lillias White, Saycon Sengbloh & Others)
    [Knitting Factory].

    A Little Night Music
    Tommy Krasker, producer (Stephen Sondheim, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist)
    (2009 Broadway Revival Cast With Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury & Others)
    [Nonesuch – PS Classics].

    Promises, Promises
    David Caddick & David Lai, producers (Burt Bacharach, composer; Hal David,
    lyricist) (New Broadway Cast With Sean Hayes, Kristin Chenoweth & Others)
    [Masterworks Broadway].

    Sondheim On Sondheim
    Philip Chaffin & Tommy Krasker, producers (Stephen Sondheim, composer; Stephen
    Sondheim, lyricist) (Original Broadway Cast With Barbara Cook , Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat & Others)
    [PS Classics].

    Click below to visit the official Grammy Site!
    http://www.grammy.com/

  • Saycon attends Kimberly Nichole Presents: The Rise of the Underground

    I had the great pleasure of attending “Kimberly Nichole Presents:The Rise of the Underground” at Le Poisson Rouge.This show was featuring Kimberly Nichole, Rahbi, and Charles Perry! Woo they were on fire! Lots of good “sangin”, ruffles, lace, diamonds and pearls: everything I adore! It was a great show and I had a great time! They were on fire!

  • Saycon Sengbloh attends the NYC premiere of the Whipping Man!



    Theater is alive and well! I attended the opening night for the Whipping Man starring Andre Braugher. It was a very unique show that give a bit of insite into the lives of slaves own by Jewish Americans. A different angle from the usual narrative on slavery the play also featured Jay Wilkison and Andre Holland who has an uncanny resemblance to Danny Soto. Of course I had a ball hamming it up in front of the red carpet “step and repeat”! I’m a recessionista, my shoes cost more than my entire outfit! We had fun laughing as the people told Danny congrats on the show that he happened to not be in! Great Fun!

  • Saycon sings the National Anthem!

    Click to see Saycon sing US National Anthem
    Hey its Superbowl Sunday! I decided to post this video its from a baseball game I sang at a while back: the Braves vs the Mets playing in New York City! Enjoy this and the superbowl and may your beloved team win! I didn’t pick a team I’m just trying to get some wings and dip yall! If you can’t view the video click or copy and paste the link below to watch!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiu7ZwZ4DVc

  • Saturday Night Live!





    So Saturday night was a blast nostalgic, timely, and fun! Hanging out with old friends enjoying the shenanigans that can only go on backstage at SNL! Maia, David, Danny, and I spent our time hanging out in Keenan’s dressing room and watching the scene changes and set ups backstage. Security is already tight but with “the” Mark Zuckerberg on set it was extra tight. He’s so young yet so very successful, being the creator of Facebook and all! We went inside the studio to watch Nicki Minaj’s performances close up. She wore a fabulous gown for the first song: the cinderella look and a hood-colorful cat suit for part two, makeup flawless both times (shout-out Day of Buddhaflyy who introduced us to hip-hop’s newest chanteuse at the end of the show! Afterwards we partied with more folks from Tri-Cities highschool. Famously the Saturday Night Live crew attends an After-Party and an After-After Party! Good Times ya’ll!

  • Make-Up artist to the stars: Day Hill of Buddhaflyy

    Make-Up artist to the stars: Day Hill of Buddhaflyy




    This week I reconnected with my friend Day! She’s known as a makeup artist, stylist, but she’s also an actress and writer. We attended highschool together and were in Freddie Hendricks’ YEA! As a stylist Day helped me to re-create the Vanity Six/ Apollonia Six look in my retro-music video for “Recognize”! Currently her work can best be seen all over the world as the make-up artist who gives you the ultra girly glam of hip-hop recording artist Nicki Minaj and the soft and natural look of Chili of TLC whose reality show, “What Chilli Wants” is airing on VH1. She even took time to “beat” my face for an interview I did for Liberian Seabreeze Journal I’ve included photos from that day! Tonight Nicki Minaj will be a guest on Saturday Night Live! It will be a great night, our other classmate Keenan Thompson has invited us to come hang! I’m looking forward to it. If you don’t know Day Hill, you will!

  • Thursday Night January 27th raise funds for Haiti and the Dominican Republic!


    The island that holds 2 nations, Haiti and the Dominican Republic still needs our help! Searchin’ and Lost Productions, and Elasea Douglas and Members of the cast of Fela are helping! This music event is Thursday night at 8pm for a donation of $7, $10, $12, or $20! Please come out to be entertained and support a great cause! Backstage located at 152 Ochard Street, NYC take F train to Delancey. Hosted by the one and only Ayesha Ngaujah!!!

  • Rock n Roll Baby! Scott and Alisha Patterson Baby Shower!



    Scott and Alisha Patterson celebrated there upcoming baby with 2 count em, TWO showers for family and friends in DC! We headed out there and had a sweet time visiting with Mr. Kojo Modibo Sun himself! Baby Judah will be here soon!LOL

  • Table Read with Sidra Smith, Saycon Sengbloh, & Malinda Williams




    The other day I participated in a table reading for a new film written by the talented Sidra Smith. Its a romantic comedy with the working title “Cleopatra Smiles”! The read through took place in Harlem NYC at the Faison Firehouse. The story is great and we had fun!

  • Fela and the Tony Awards!

    The Fela! Broadway experience found me in some of the most exciting situations, one of my favorites being the Tony Awards! We were nominated for 11 Tony awards! My mentor Freddie Hendricks, and my friends David Kote and Shilla Benning all found their way to NYC for the ceremony! I received well wishes from everyone and took lots of pictures in my dress by designer Edwing D’eangelo! Both my beau, Danny and I were dressed up and had a wonderful time!

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