Eight remain in Tastee Talent Trail 2010 series
With the accent on a reality segment in this year’s Tastee Talent Trail contest, the top twelve contestants from the six auditions held islandwide left Kingston, on Monday, October 4, for Breezes, Trelawny with great expectations.
After three days, eight remained as the trail moves the first of three grooming eliminations and the Grand Finals in Kingston later this year.
Sponsored this year by Tastee, Pepsi, Claro, Breezes, Supreme Ventures, TVJ, RJR94, RETV, Hitz, Kosmo and the KSAC the reality segment was filmed over a three day period Monday, October 4 to Wednesday, October 6, at the beautiful and expansive Breezes Rio Bueno where the contestants were judged on two performances on Monday and Tuesday nights by judges; Oral Tracey, Audrey Reid and Amelia ‘Milk’ Sewell.
The first performance on Monday night saw each contestant doing one routine. They were judged on Interpretation, Range, Use of Stage, Impact/Crowd Appeal.
Early Tuesday morning they were summoned before the judges who informed them that two persons would be eliminated.
The first two causalties were DJ Fabian Fletcher from the Sav audition and Shannon Townsend from May Pen.
Now everyone was on edge and this led to improved performances on Tuesday night as they performed in a cabaret format with each person doing two presentations.
They were again judged along the same lines as the first night and on Wednesday morning the axe fell on the trio RM from Kingston and Sharon Thompson who hails from Montego Bay. Those who remained for the November 24, first Grooming Elimination are; Romario English, Jermaine Bryan, Lorna Gordon, Shelly-Dean Bartley, COLAS, Andre Lee, Supreme Blazers and Crisna Brown.
These eight will continue grooming in Montego Bay and Kingston before moving into studio rehearsals with Unique Vision band.
The Grand Finals unfolds on Thursday, December 16, at the Tastee Open Air Theatre in Cross Roads where the finalists will vie for $1 million first prize, $250,000 second, $50,000 third and a number of high-end cellphones from Claro.
