• SayconSengblohHere’s your chance to see Saycon live if your not in New York City! Click to watch:

    7:15pm MONDAY December 16th Eastern Standard time (New York, Atlanta, etc.)

    6:15 Monday December 16th Central Standard time (Chicago)

    4:15 PM Monday December 16th Pacific Standard time (Los Angeles)

    All my viewers in Africa,  South America, Australia, Asia and Europe please click on this handy link to find your time! Time&Datesite

    Drom Saycon Sengbloh

  • SayconSengbloh-8367-Edit-EditDecember 16th Saycon sings live at Drom! After loads of hard work and sleepless nights I am ready to sing my new song to the masses! Just in time for the holiday season: “Be Here” is coming! Come hear it live at my upcoming concert at Drom on Monday  December 16th located in the East Village 85 Avenue A between 5th and 6th streets. The band the music the food will be hot to keep you warm inside after doing all that good Christmas shopping! I’m so excited to share this music with you and I thank you for your continued support! SAVE THE DATE and I’ll see you there!

    CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS!

    Currently seen nightly in Motown the Musical, Saycon was featured as Sandra Izsadore in Fela!, a show about the life & music of Fela Kuti and she is involved with the development of the hip-hop fused production, “Holler If You Hear Me” featuring the music & poetry of Tupac Shakur.She previously released the Southern Pin-Up EP featuring her remake of “It Was a Very Good Year” and original tune “Possible” and was featured on “Serge Negri presents The Warrior EP” featuring the songs “Sorrow, tears, and Blood” and the soulful house version of “Warrior”. Originally from Atlanta, GA this southern soul singer inspired by Tina Turner, Prince, and Bill Withers, puts a tender touch on some of your favorite tunes and debuts new music from her forthcoming album, including the new single, “Be Here”, a ballad simple and lush. Come out to Drom to enjoy the Saycon experience, see what folks have been saying for years.

  • Nelson Mandela: Madiba
    Nelson Mandela statesman, world citizen
    Nelson Mandela statesman, world citizen

    I am at a loss for words, in this same year that  I have lost my beloved physical grandmother, Miss Susie May Jackson, I just heard on the news that “Madiba”, my spiritual grandfather, Nelson Rolilahla Mandela. The news was not a complete shock due to his waning health but it is deeply saddening. A great deal of my life as a teenager was spent learning about Nelson Mandela, and having not known any grandfather, paternally or maternally, I secretly carried him in my heart as the grandfather I never knew. His passion and political career and life has served as an inspiration to me and countless others over the years. The true example of passion and unrelenting commitment,  In fact, me and my cohorts had an obsessive focus on South Africa as kids studying Apartheid and Nelson Mandela and studying the great changes that took place in that country from the 70’s- late 80’s. As a theatre student and member of the Freddie Hendricks’ Youth Ensemble of Atlanta,also known as Y.E.A. I can still hear the voice of Michael “Sahr” Ngaujah  yelling Amandla! Long before we starred together in Broadway’s Fela!,  we, and many others, portrayed the young South African students who struggled in their fight against Apartheid in some of the earliest productions of “Soweto! Soweto! A Township Is Calling!” with Y.E.A.

    Saycon Sengbloh teen actress
    Saycon Sengbloh and cast of Freddie Hendricks’s Youth Ensemble “Soweto! Soweto! A Township is Calling”

    As a child of a Liberian father I saw very few African stars on television, but I saw Nelson Mandela walk from prison after 27 years of captivity, a star indeed. Every year just around the time for school Turner Broadcast the mini-series, Shaka Zulu about a great South African warrior king who reigned tall above tyranny from his own people and from foreigners alike. Mandela was a great warrior king and first black president of that nation. Next to my own Liberia, the South African story has fascinated me to no end! Seeing and learning about Nelson and Winnie Mandela helped with my own appreciation and pride in my African heritage, as children can be cruel I was often isolated by my name. My African pride was seeded more deeply as I watched in 1990 as apartheid was abolished much like the ending of segregation had occurred so many years before in the United States. It is with great pride that I honor the life of Madiba! Nelson Mandela!!! #Amandla

  • Saycon Cast of Motown
    Saycon Sengbloh & the Cast of Motown rehearse in their coats: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Photo: courtesy of Joe Perrotta
    Saycon Sengbloh & the Cast of Motown rehearse in their coats: Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
    Photo: courtesy of Joe Perrotta

    Saycon Drom Dec 16th

    OMG We’re going to be on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! You’ve got to watch us doing it up in the frrreeezing cold! Honey, my Mom is up to visit and all my Motown the musical people have been getting ready! So here we come!

    ALSO, did you know I am going to be performing December 16th at Drom?

    Visit www.DromNYC.com to learn more about it!  In the meantime watch us on the Macy’s Day Parade!

    xoxo,

    Saycon

     

  • In my quest to broaden my horizons I was struck by these two new artists!

    yeah.. they do it. Well. Funk, country, soul.. I dig it! In the meantime stay tuned for music news coming soon!

     

     

    Valerie June

    Alice Smith

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    Check me out at the Canal room September 9th 2013! 8pm show with Daniel Watts and many more!
    Check me out at the Canal room September 9th 2013! 8pm show with Daniel Watts and many more!

    September 9th is gonna be Funky!  Monday September 9th at the Canal Room 285 West Broadway 8pm Show Doors opening at 7:30 I hope to see you there!!I will be performing in the hottest show put together by wordsmith, Daniel J. Watts! He will do his poetic word spitting rhyming thing and feature some talented cats Derrick Baskin, Nicholas Christopher, Grasan Kingsberry, Ephraim Sykes are going to be gracing the stage as well!We will grace the stage for a night of poetry, music, hip-hop and satisfy your ears! Come on out and enjoy us! The Jam! To purchase tickets click here!

     

    Visit Wattswords.com or call 866.601.6730 for more information!

  • Motown the Musical or  “the Motown” as I like to call it is chock full of talented musician, singers, dancers, and actors. Each striving to do their own thing. We do 8 shows a week in the show and then we all have the nerve to want more! LOL yes in indeed, we want more.  I attended the Birdland show of my girl N’kenge (Mary Wells and also one-third of the Martha & the Vandellas in Motown) this past Sunday and saw her singing her heart out in perfect voice, after the longest week ever! But before that I attended and performed in at Joes’s Pub with my southern sister , Ariana DeBose . Ariana is one-third of ” the Supremes” as Mary Wilson and she recently put together a fab show at Joe’s Pub, this girl works hard! She came into Motown the Musical 6 days after finishing the tour of “Bring It On the Musical”, and dived right into rehearsals, not even a full week break between shows and she’s been going strong! Having been in the lab working on my Howlin’ music recording for Honeywax, writing, perfecting my songs I have been behind the scenes writing songs, making arrangements and completing my next album currently titled “Howlin’”, doing Motown nightly and recording during my days. Ariana asked me to be a part of  the show and I said yes! Exciting for people who may know her as the beautiful dancer from “So You Think You Can Dance”because there’s more! She sings, and grooves and  belts honey, I was thrilled to hear her range on songs like “4 Women” made famous by Nina Simone. She shared the stage with several of my favorite people including Charl Brown (Motown, Sister Act), and Ariana Grover (Bare, Holler If You Hear Me-Tupac Workshop). That’s all I’ll say for now but check out this video of us singing one of my favorite funk derived songs, giving it a bluesy twist just the way I like things— bluesy and funky!

    Ariana DeBose and Saycon Sengbloh

  • Saycon in Elijah Bland’s “For the Record” Music video

    Today is the debut of the music video for Elijah Bland’s single, “For the Record” I’m so excited to share this music video with you! Elijah Bland is an R&B artist who makes that soulful sort of music you listen to with your boo and a nice drink in your hand! Check out the music video for his single, “For The Record” co-starring yours truly, Saycon . Yes, folks I’m a video girl LOL but no worries its a lovely display of black love! Happy to represent. I’ve been back in the lab working hard on my music as well. The Howlin’ peeps will hopefully be pleased when my single, “Everything” is released,  gotta make sure its right and can’t put a rush on the music you know? In the meantime we will be preparing the crowdfunding perks that my contributors are to receive for their contributions to funding my music project! Please keep your eyes peeled for updates via Indiegogo and also in your email boxes as well, don’t want anything to go to your spam or junk folders. Thanks again and please enjoy! ” For the Record” by Elijah Bland. Also see me in Motown on Broadway singing live!

     

     

  • What a world-wind this weekend has been. I’ve been work-shopping on a new show in development,  and I’ve been doing Motown the Musical at night! But on top of all that I had the wonderful opportunity to perform on the Tony Awards along with my fellow cast mates! Motown the Musical received 4 Tony Award Nominations! Watch us perform  on the Tony’s below:

     

  • Tonight, at 8PM you can tune to CBS see me singing my heart out on the 2013 Tony Awards. I hope you do!

    Saycon Sengbloh performs as Martha Reeves on the Tony Awards
    Saycon Sengbloh performs as Martha Reeves on the Tony Awards

    Hugs and Kisses to everyone, my performance tonight is dedicated to Susie May Jackson.