Hot on the heels of her new single Pick The Man, dancehall diva D’Angel is eager to perform the female empowerment track before a live audience this Sunday, April 23, as the headline act at SAINT International’s Fashion Face of the Caribbean and Avant Garde Designer of the Year competitions.

The event is booked for the AC Hotel Kingston.

“I am always eager to perform any one of my songs on any platform, but when I can introduce a new song and it gets a great response, it’s always a plus, and Pick the Man is one of those songs,” she told the Jamaica Observer.

This is D’Angel’s fourth occasion as a SAINT headliner, and the artiste shares that the modelling industry has a special place in her heart.

“My modelling career, which is my first love, was short-lived because I ended up pursuing music,” she explained. But long before the steamy music videos and high-energy stage performances, Michelle Downer blazed an impressive path strutting the catwalks at New York Fashion Week.

“I had also entered the Barbizon high fashion model competition in Philadelphia in 2002 and placed second among 350 white contestants. I was the only black competitor and that remains a major milestone for me,” she recalled.

D’Angel’s love of all things fashionable continues unabated.

“Fashion is a major part of my personality; if I don’t look good, I don’t feel good,” she said, adding that her favourite Jamaican designers are Pebbles King and Keneea Linton, while she gave the nod to Oscar de la Renta and Versus by Versace as her preferred international luxury labels.