Ten youth to face off in sing-off finale

Ten talented youth will vie for the top spots in the BIM Got Talent’s Youth Sing Off finale on January 20.

Founder Kevin Sluggy Dan Watson said the competition will see each performer sing one song, adding five cash prizes were up for grabs.

“They auditioned on Instagram Live and TikTok Live, and the best were chosen for the finale,” he told the Sunday Sun on Friday during a media briefing in De Bar, Worthing, Christ Church.

Watson said his aim was always to encourage youth to think for themselves and show them a better way than gang life and violence.

Quantum Productions will manage the competition.

Creative director Randy Mr Quantum Eastmond said the proceeds would go towards funding school music programmes.

“This press conference is not simply an announcement of an event; it’s a declaration of intent. It is about youth development, cultural preservation, and national investment through music and the arts. The youth sing-off finale and fund-raiser exists for a clear and urgent purpose: to directly support school music programmes across Barbados.

“In many of our schools, music education is under-resourced, often treated as an extracurricular activity, or rather a luxury, rather than a developmental necessity.

“Research consistently shows that music education strengthens cognitive ability, improves academic performance, builds discipline, enhances emotional intelligence, and fosters teamwork. For developing nations such as Barbados, these outcomes are not optional; they are definitely essential,” he said.

Senator Roshanna Trim who was a special guest, said BIM Got Talent was a way to give back and invest in youth.

“If we don’t invest in them, if we just leave them to wander, if we do not intentionally pour into them, we get whatever happens, and we cannot risk that for a small country like Barbados, where our only natural resource is our people.

“We cannot afford to leave the development of our people to chance, and so tonight I want to say thank you to the BIM Got Talent team. We need more initiatives like this, we need corporate Barbados to not only create their own initiatives, but to support the initiatives of young people, so they feel like their contributions are valued and worthy.

“We need to find new ways to engage young people, through the arts, because we know that the arts change lives, we know that the arts can have an impact . . . and so in doing activities like this, we build resilience, and we build young people who are confident,” she said.

(CA)

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