LAST Tuesday, the TEENage Observer Expression Tour held its third annual finals at Waterfalls in Liguanea, Kingston.

The winners from the 14 schools — which hosted Expression Tours throughout the academic year — travelled to Kingston to show the best they had to offer.

DJ Charm and DJ Cyclone rocked the audience with their amazing musical stylings before the performances were slated to begin and the judges were seated.

This year, recording artistes Chino, Raine Seville and Shane-O judged the TEENs to see who would be crowned the most talented.

Guest performers Ascot High Dance Group kicked off the show decked in multicoloured outfits, with a beautiful dance to folk music.

Avadaughn Sinclair, marketing and communications manager of Jamaica Observer, officially welcomed all the schools who made the trip into Kingston and the sponsors that made the Tours possible — Freshhh, Flow, Pronto Cornmeal Porridge Mix and Cooyah.

Kim Lee, head of marketing of Trade Winds Citrus, and Nicole Campbell, public relations executive of Flow, both brought greetings and praised the participants.

The official competition started with Westmoreland’s Grange Hill High with a dance routine from different genres of music including revivalism, calypso, reggae and dancehall. They changed their costumes on stage going into each genre of music that complemented the costumes. That was very creative and even had a surprise at the end.

Clarendon College fielded the Khaos Dancers who gave the audience crazy, chaotic and vibrant dance moves that matched their spirit and name.

The little man Chenoy Sterling from Anchovy High stole the stage and had the audience screaming with excitement at his vibrant body movements. Doing a routine based on moves from the late Michael Jackson, Chenoy stirred up the audience as no other performer had done yet.

The graceful Danielle McLaren from Rusea’s High School then blessed the stage with the gospel song Midnight Cry and her strong voice filled the room and had all the spectators in tune.

Following this were the dancers from Jose Marti Technical High School. The boys were dressed in their school colours and presented a well-choregraphed and balanced routine.

Then Odane Brown and Lenroy Green (Jah Bless) from Vere Technical High School performed a stirring deejay piece named Mek Wi Talk To Di Yutes.

Following that message, Nadine Thomas from Titchfield High delivered her rousing poem called Ragged Boy.

Kemisha Campbell of Godfrey Stewart did a deejay performance using popular dancehall melodies (Benz by Vybz Kartel and I’m Okay by Beenie Man) to detail educational lyrics.

Winners of the St James High in Montego Bay Odean and O’Brien performed their original soul/R&B song called Girl I’m Glad.

Davina Taylor from St Mary High School performed a drama piece entitled A Mad Mi Mad. Davina expressed her feelings to different scenarios throughout the poem using everyday life happenings related to school girls and conductors.

Born Stars from Gaynstead High School did a drama piece entitled Christmas Mean Lady.

Romario and Rushane from Muschette High in Trelawny sang about how much girls love them.

Closing out the performance segment of the Tour finals, JND from Glenmuir High had the crowd going wild with their amazing dance moves, which included robotics, disco and dancehall.

During the time for the judges to tally to winners, TEENage Observer writers modelled trendy pieces from the Cooyah brand.

And as all TEENage Expression Tours end, we had guest performers to round out the show. This time around Tour-regular Mixing Lab thrilled the audience with his impressive beat-boxing. Gospel artiste Omari also blessed the stage, Shane-O had the audience rocking to his performance and Chino entertained the audience with his many hits.

The third season of the TEENage Observer Expression Tour came to end with Chenoy Sterling of Anchovy High School in St James moon-walking away with $50,000 from the Jamaica Observer and the title of being Jamaica’s Most Talented TEEN.

See you in the fourth season to find out if your school is going to be our next stop on the TEENage Observer Expression Tour.