Rising Stars is the Jamaican version of American Idol - minus the off-screen drama :) and is a production of Television Jamaica. (It's main sponsor is Digicel Jamaica).
As predicted, Suzanne Perkins was voted off of Rising Stars on Friday Night.
The youngest finalist ever, Suzanne went home with JMD $400,000 or USD $6,056.02.
Suzanne's sister had given gave her the transportation money to go to the Rising Stars Preliminary Bout in Negril – saying that if she didn’t get through to be one of the ten (10) finalists, she wasn’t to come back home :).
Well Suzanne is now certainly returning home and with a whole bag of cash! Hopefully she will use the money, wisely, to further her education. (She likes to shop and wants to go to cosmetology school).
The two remaining finalists - Nickeisha Barnes and One Third, will perform three (3) songs on Sunday night - two(2) of which will be their favorites from the series.
Suzanne (dubbed the Queen of Jamaica's Hearts by judge, Clyde McKenzie) bowed out tonight with her rendition of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song".
We await the other performances on Sunday! :).
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