Rising Stars Update

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).

Well, well, well. We're down to the final three(3): One Third, Nickeisha Barnes and Suzanne Perkins.

Apparently the going consensus among the younger viewing public was that Brushy One String was too "old". They felt that he should give the young people "a chance". So they voted him off.

My opinion is that Brushy brought originality to this contest. I really enjoyed his original songs and all the theatrics around his performances...he always kept us guessing.

But I guess originality was not a key factor among the majority of the Jamaican voting public.

You could visibly see judge, Anthony Miller, smarting at the public's decision :).

So the final three(3) battled it out on Sunday.

One Third, I think could have done better with their cover of Air Supply's "Lonely is the Night", but all three judges, Anthony Miller, Nadine Sutherland and Clyde McKenzie thought their performance was stellar.

Nickeisha Barnes' rendition of Tanya Stephens' "These Streets", was just "off the roof". She also did great justice to Alicia Keys' "Karma" . I think her performance was the best for the night...she made a few slip-ups, but her overall performance was just great!

Suzanne Perkins tried, she really did with her cover of "Killing Me Softly With His Song", by Roberta Flack.

Unfortunately, I think the public will vote her off on Friday.

Well, we're all sitting at the edge of our seats waiting for Friday night (when we'll know which two finalists will go to the final round)  to come around...I tell you, more Jamaicans will be glued to their television sets than there are hairs on a water buffalo! :)