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Upcoming This Week: Digicel Rising Stars Review-You Can't Afford to Miss it!

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This week we will present our review of the Digicel Rising Stars competition.

 

(Digicel Rising Stars is the Jamaican equivalent of American Idol. It scouts Jamaican musical talent from all over the island and then gives them exposure on TV.

 

The winner gets a million dollars and one year of free credit from Digicel - the Caribbean's leading mobile services provider).

 

The review will seek to answer the following questions:

 

1) Is Digicel Rising Stars living up to expectations?

2) Do contestants really get the exposure they deserve?

3) Does its present format need changing?

 

You can't afford to miss our review!

 

Gillian

'Digicel Rising Stars' Revenue Estimates Coming Soon!

Friends, as promised in our previous post, we will be bringing you estimates of the monies (revenue) that Digicel has made from Rising Stars 2008!

Unfortuntely this report has been a bit delayed, but we will try to bring you same within the next ten (10) days...

Our apologies for the delay!

Gillian

Rising Stars Finale

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).

Friday night, October 6, 2006, came...

The stage had been set...

This would be the last time that the two remaining finalists would face the nation as contestants  for the Rising Stars crown.

Both took centre stage at the Courtleigh Hotel Auditorium.

Nickeisha Barnes was first and performed the first of her two songs:

"To Sir With Love", by Lulu.

One Third followed with their first song as well:

"The Reason" by Hoobastank.

Then Nickeisha  Barnes performed song number 2, "I Will Survive", made popular by Gloria Gaynor.

(This young lady's voice range is just great, I feel she can handle any song she puts her mind to).

Then One Third tantalized us with,"She's Got Me - Medley on the Half-Way-Tree Riddim".

The judges congratulated both finalists for reaching so far in the contest.

Then we waited.

And then, at exactly 9:54 p.m., we heard the results...

The final tally of votes was in..

One Third was now the new Rising Stars for 2006!!!!!

The in-studio crowd at the Courtleigh Auditorium went wild!

The 4,000 strong sold-out crowd at Mas Camp, the venue for the Rising Stars Concert, which was aired simultaneously, went ballistic!

Not bad for three (3) young men who stole the hearts of most Jamaican females.

They walked away with JMD $1,000,000/USD $15,138.3, JMD $100,000/USD $1,513.83 worth of free credit from Digicel, a management contract from Shocking Vibes Productions Limited (one of Jamaica's premier artist management power houses) and JMD $30,000/USD $454.15 from the Jamaica Business Development Centre to aid in the development of their music careers.

Nickeisha was gracious in defeat, but went away with JMD $600,000/USD $9,082.96, JMD $100,000/USD $1,513.83 worth of free credit from Digicel and JMD $30,000/USD $454.15 from the Jamaica Business Development Centre to aid in the development of her music career.

No chump change :)...

Well, no doubt we'll hear a lot more from these two in the very near future.

We at Girl With a Purpose wish Nickeisha and One Third, all the best in their budding careers as musical artists!

We look forward to hearing of your continued success in the music business!