Saycon at "HELLO GORGEOUS" Streisand Review!

What's up ya'll?! This past week, the fall kicked off for me with a performance at the one-night-only concert "Hello Gorgeous! A Salute to the Streisand Songbook", presented by Scott Nevins and Joe Lodato benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. I've included the photos below from the event. Photos by Joseph Marzullo/WENN. Click to see a clip of me singing "On A Clear Day" Barbra Streisand's song from the movie! I never ever sang her music before but it felt really good and everyone did a great job. Including Kristy Kates and my homeboy Marty Thomas both of whom I did Wicked on Broadway with Marty, who invites me to sing with his Divas show, from time to time. One thing I know is Barbra Streisand has had the best songs and arrangements, so the audience of mostly Streisand fans already knew the words to all their favorite songs!

Forever MJ: Broadway sings Michael Jackson!

photo by Darryl for ArtX photography used by permission

Forever MJ! Participated in a concert featuring music by the one and only Michael Jackson, classics that generations have grooved to for decades from "Ben" to "Butterflies." MJ brought us the hits we were invited to perform by Corey Mach, the show's producer, we took time to perform some of the best songs to ever be recorded in pop music. Lots of friends of mine lent their voices, Chester Gregory, Morgan James, Tituss Burgess, and Nicholas Christopher among others I had recently met whose voices were phenomenal! I sang "Can't Help It" early on in the night and later joined Morgan and Tituss for a gut busting trio of "I'll Be There" complete with the I dream of Jeanie ponytail swinging! It was a good time celebration located at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC's West Village area and the lighting  and sound was thoroughly "rockstar-ish".
Lots of fun here's a few pics and some links to check out.

My LA Trip: Fela tour!

Courtesy of Saycon Sengbloh

I had a ball in Los Angeles joining the wonderful touring cast of Fela reprising my role as Sandra Iszadore. Who knew I'd be bringing in the 2012 New Year right there in LA. Hopefully more of sunny LA will be in my future! It was a jam packed 2 weeks. One week of rehearsals and one week of performances, interviews, meetings, and kicking it in between! One of the interviews I did was for YoungHollywood.com the interview featured, Nandi Bhebhe, Jill Vallery, and myself talking and dancing with the host, Lesley Robbins.
http://www.younghollywood.com/videos/lifestyle/lifestyle-events/dancing-with-the-cast-of-fela.html

 I'm not sure how we found the time to squeeze this in after rehearsal and before the show that night, but we made it work LOL. It was amazing and a blessing to return to the show if only for a week! I will be sure to let you all know if I roll through the "shrine" on the tour again. The Ahmanson theater was huge and the sound was great, I was digging LA! While in LA I had so many great friends and family come through including Stu James, Lesly Donald, Marcus Mitchell, Shaun Earl, Lisa Thomas, Adisa Anderson, and the lovely Sakara Anderson, along with their sons, girlfriends, and family as well! Not to mention the talented Scott Nevins and friend, who seemed to have had a ball. I also met soul singer Ndambi who attended with her manager Monica Young. Sandra Izsadore also came with all sorts of celebrities. Check out the younghollywood interview by clicking the link below or click to download my track #2 Sorrow, Tears, and Blood recording:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-warrior-ep/id476799155

http://www.younghollywood.com/videos/lifestyle/lifestyle-events/dancing-with-the-cast-of-fela.html

See Saycon Sengbloh in Fela LA for 1 week only!

Hey I'm rocking the Fela hoodie to keep warm lol and next month for good reason! For folks in LA who heard the Fela soundtrack and want to see me on the tour here's a treat. Come check me out guys! I'll be in Fela in LA for 1 week only then heading back to New York to begin Hurt Village rehearsal! Hope to see you in LA at the Ahmanson Theater Click here for ticket info!

Click Here to download Sorrow, Tears, & Blood by Saycon!

See Saycon in Fela! LA January 1st-9th 2012!
The Ahmanson Theater
135 North Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Saycon In-Store Event @ Hue-man Bookstore in Harlem

Hi folks,

Continuing the holiday fever! and Christmas spirit! I'll be doing my first "Warrior"in-store event at Hueman bookstore! This will include musical performance, CD, Poster/Calendar signing with purchase and a great Question & Answer! A chance to ask all the things you ever wanted to know about, music, and theater. Families are welcome! We're excited to announce with a single purchase of a Saycon CD or Poster you will be entered to win 2 free tickets to see Katori Hall's newest play HURT VILLAGE! Katori's current play MOUTAINTOP is currently starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett on Broadway!  I can't wait to see you there!


http://myemail.constantcontact.com/You-re-Invited-to-Hue-Man-Holidays-Celebration-w-Broadway-Actress-Saycon-Sengbloh.html?soid=1101658999278&aid=lBGd8RpKJTw
http://cafepress.com/saycon

Sounds of the Season with Saycon

Hope to see you at my upcoming appearances:

Thursday December 8th:

The 3rd Annual A Very MARY Holiday Gala benefiting The Ali Forney Center
AVMH will honor Sonja Morgan from The Real Housewives of NYC with the Broadway Speaks OUT Hero Award.
Guests include:
Tituss Burgess and many many more! An opening number featuring Saycon Sengbloh, Elasea Douglas, and Allison Guinn with a Christmas classic!

Hosted by Marti Gould Cummings
Musical direction by Brad Gardner & Kristen Rosenfeld

http://maryholiday.eventbrite.com/

SATURDAY December 10th in HARLEM:

 Nectar presents...Sounds of the Season

Featuring various artists including Nicholas Ryan Gant, Rodrick Covington, Jahi Kearse, and Saycon Sengbloh. This is a holiday event you want to attend. Come and bring friends. Its gonna be a sexy grooving night!  Come to the show and enjoy dinner too! A $5 fee will be added to all guests checks.

Visit for reservations:http://www.nectarwinenyc.com/

SAYCON releases "WARRIOR" song! 11/11/11

11/11/11

Its November 11th 2011 and we're proud to announce that The WARRIOR EP is now available online! DJ Serge Negri presents Saycon "Warrior" is an EP that features the original song "Warrior" and a special bonus track for all those Afro-beat lovers and soulful house instrumentals to jam to! Saycon was featured as the powerful Sandra Iszadore in the Tony award winning musical Fela! About the life of afro-beat superstar Fela Kuti. And can be heard on the Grammy nominated Fela! Broadway soundtrack. Warrior is a collaboration with house D.J. Serge Negri following his release the "Cigarette EP" featuring the fabulous Tasha Mabry, Serge geared up for the Warrior EP release with Saycon. Special thanks to BAMBOOSOUNDS.net for this special release just in time for the Holiday Season!   Amazon, Rhapsody, LastFM, Bamboosound.net, Itunes.com ,  and everywhere!Warrior is dedicated to my family!!!

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Check it out! New Layout Design! 

Visit http://SayconTalks.blogspot.com for more information and please visit the Saycon Store purchase our special Breast Cancer Awareness Warrior Pink T-shirt! This shirt is designed in honor of my Grandmother Susie May Jackson who is a Warrior and a survivor! Wear it to support the survivor in your life!
http://www.reverbnation.com/store/index/artist_362611  Much love to you Grandma Sue!!!!

Lots of links below:  click or copy & paste

Warrior on Itunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-warrior-ep/id476799155

Warrior on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_srch_drd_B0060XAZEM?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-music&field-keywords=DJ%20Serge%20Negri%2C%20Saycon

"Like" my FB bandpage: SAYCON:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Saycon/39335319086

"Like" my FB bandpage: SAYCON:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Saycon/39335319086

DJ. Serge Negri:
http://www.Bamboosounds.net

Saycon Store:
http://www.reverbnation.com/store/index/artist_362611

Southern Pin-Up EP on Itunes:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/southern-pin-up-special-edition/id302475798

Saycon website:
http://sayconsengbloh.com/

Saycon Sengbloh performs at YMCA Arts & Letters Auction

[Saycon Sengbloh pictured above with Stanley Tucci] Amazing fun! I enjoyed singing at the annual Arts & Letters event for the YMCA! I was asked to perform Defying Gravity for an audience of professionals representing YMCA locations all over New York they were doing a fundraisor to help children all over the greater New York area. Actor Stanley Tucci was honored for his work that evening. Proceeds from Arts & Letters benefit the more than 13,000 New York City public school children who receive free enrichment as part of the Y AFTER SCHOOL initiative. For three hours a day, five days a week throughout the school year, girls and boys are able to participate in these activities. I'm proud to use my talents for this cause.

Technology for Liberia

Preparing Liberia for success in the new millenium, I had the honor to lend my voice and energy to a cause very dear to my heart! We are seeking to make the technological infrastructure of Liberia and access to the internet a commonplace resource through out the land. Many thanks to sis Matu Saye for inviting me and treating me to top notch acommodations during this wonderful event. The band SidebySol was a gift of Philly soul to my ears. I enjoyed many of the best singers in Philly that night, and I closed the show out with my set.We jammed at the African-American Museum in Philadephia, PA. I was Liberian princess for a day! Liberian hugs and kisses yall! Please visit http://Technologyforliberia.com to make a monetary or technological contribution today.

Saycon & Marty Thomas have fun in NYC!

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Its been so much fun linking with my old "Wicked" buddy Marty Thomas! As many of you know I was in Wicked for 4 years and Marty was one of the coolest people in the cast! We've stayed in touch all these years. I even recorded my initial idea for the upcoming single "Warrior" at his home studio. He's been super, always supportive and hooking me up with the most fun gigs singing at various clubs and dinners, introducing me great people. He is the host of "Marty Thomas presents Diva at Industry" a popular gay spot in midtown Manhattan. I tried his Diva Gaga shades for kicks!!! I've had a ball singing there, testing out my new singles and serving up a little Color Purple for the nostalgia, honey! Hair alumnus Anthony Hollock was there and my friend Asantewaa and I had a ball hanging out backstage and enjoying other people's voices, costumes, and antics!

Saycon, Zonya, & Parker live with Ulysses Owens! Friday August 26th

Click this link for the new interview!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY78FG1xPmc&feature=youtu.be

SAYCON LIVE AT Soul Sensations @ the Triad NYC! Along with Parker Brown, and Zonya Love and Ulysses Owens! Bring a friend and tell a friend! I'll be performing new music, including my new song Warrior and some favorites too!Its gonna be a sexy night!
Friday, August 26 at 9:30pm - August 27 at 12:30am $20 @ the door! SEE YA THERE!
Location The Triad (NYC)
158 W 72nd St/ Between Amsterdam and Columbus/ 2nd floor
New York, NY

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http://youtu.be/XY78FG1xPmc

Saycon sings at Industry Bar August 22!

Saycon sings at Industry Bar: Marty Thomas' DIVA show! Monday August 22nd 2011! Come hear Marty and a bevy of beauties belting out hits! And Saycon as special guest!

Industry Bar Address:355 W 52nd St New York, NY 10019Phone:646.476.2747
11pm no cover must be 21 and up

SAYCON at Soul Sensations: the TRIAD August 26th!

photo by Phillis Kwentoh



photo by Phillis Kwentoh

SAYCON LIVE AT Soul Sensations @ the Triad NYC! Along with Parker Brown, and Zonya Love and Ulysses Owens! Bring a friend and tell a friend! I'll be performing new music, including my new song Warrior and some favorites too!Its gonna be a sexy night!
Friday, August 26 at 9:30pm - August 27 at 12:30am $20 @ the door! SEE YA THERE!
Location The Triad (NYC)
158 W 72nd St/ Between Amsterdam and Columbus/ 2nd floor
New York, NY

Please take a moment to add the SAYCON Facebook Band page if you'd like to stay up to date with shows, and new music!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Saycon/39335319086

Saycon Celebrating Opus PS 118 @Saks!

Congrats to the students at Opus 118! And also to Steve and Ruth Hendel, executive producers of Fela! who were among the celebrated for the evening! While Steve was away with the Opening of Fela in Amsterdam, Ruth was there to accept the award and we grabbed a pic together! Kimberley Richardson hosted the evening and I must say the event was chalk full of New Yorks best and brightest! The other honorees were George C. Wolf, and the late Barbara Ann Tear, whose daughter accepted on her behalf. People came out to support even on this rainy, rainy evening! I was happy to be there surrounded by the gorgeous shoes in the shoe parlor at Saks, not to mention being serenaded by the wonderful kids from the program! Highlight of the evening was meeting the subject of "Umi Says", Mos Def's mom! she was lovely and kind! A special thanks to my friend Dejuan Wilson who invited me to this fabulous event!

Liberian love, Liberian Pride!

Performing at the Macdella Cooper Foundation L'Africana was amazing! I pray to use myself to help build my father's country, Liberia, to be one of the greatest in the world.
*this post is dedicated to my nephew Aldrey Anderson!

Celebrating Darien Hicks! We miss you!

I had the honor of performing for the posthumous birthday celebration of Darien Hicks a wonderful friend, brother, son, and performer who past away last year. He would have been 30 years old and we miss him! Charles Browning was the executive producer of the event and it was a class act! Hosted by the comedienne Gena Pemberton featuring musical performances by Marc Villa, Charles Browning, and dance by Danny Soto. Darien's family were in attendance and Charles also had a lovely brunch with them the next morning. I sang songs from Southern Pin-Up (http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/southern-pin-up-special-edition/id302475798) and also covered some of Darien's favorite Janet Jackson songs.

click or copy/paste the link below to see footage below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YebY5Qoel4I

Saycon sings the National Anthem!

Click to see Saycon sing US National Anthem
Hey its Superbowl Sunday! I decided to post this video its from a baseball game I sang at a while back: the Braves vs the Mets playing in New York City! Enjoy this and the superbowl and may your beloved team win! I didn't pick a team I'm just trying to get some wings and dip yall! If you can't view the video click or copy and paste the link below to watch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiu7ZwZ4DVc

Make-Up artist to the stars: Day Hill of Buddhaflyy

This week I reconnected with my friend Day! She's known as a makeup artist, stylist, but she's also an actress and writer. We attended highschool together and were in Freddie Hendricks' YEA! As a stylist Day helped me to re-create the Vanity Six/ Apollonia Six look in my retro-music video for "Recognize"! Currently her work can best be seen all over the world as the make-up artist who gives you the ultra girly glam of hip-hop recording artist Nicki Minaj and the soft and natural look of Chili of TLC whose reality show, "What Chilli Wants" is airing on VH1. She even took time to "beat" my face for an interview I did for Liberian Seabreeze Journal I've included photos from that day! Tonight Nicki Minaj will be a guest on Saturday Night Live! It will be a great night, our other classmate Keenan Thompson has invited us to come hang! I'm looking forward to it.

Table Read with Sidra Smith, Saycon Sengbloh, & Malinda Williams

The other day I participated in a table reading for a new film written by the talented Sidra Smith. Its a romantic comedy with the working title "Cleopatra Smiles"! The read through took place in Harlem NYC at the Faison Firehouse. The story is great and we had fun!

Saycon from Fela! appears in NY Fashion Week!

Above clockwise from top to bottom: Saycon on the catwalk (courtesy Brownstein & Associates) and Saycon pictured with Kali Hawk(Couple's Retreat), The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!), Claudine Gumbel (producer of the fashion show), Saycon's navy blue dress by Tart, and Anna Maria Perez de Tagle (Fame the movie)
Dreams do come true!!!I represented the cast of Fela! during fashion week at the Manhattan Pavillion. This week was action packed with a great time of beginning rehearsals and my official modeling, cat walking, heel clicking premiere! I walked in the show presented by Elle magazine, Oral B (hence the toothbrushes in the background pics). It was curated by Caravan! I met some cool models, actresses,jewelry designers, and the Real House Wives of New Jersey! One of their children walked in the show as well. I wore a hip hugging dress by Tart. Friends Tallia Brinson, Sahr Ngaujah, and Benjamin Brown were there to support and Ben and Joshua took pics. . . Enjoy some pics from the day. . Photo 1 courtesy of Brownstein and Associates and all others by Joshua Plant of punkenterprises.org


That was fun now back to hours of daily rehearsal!!! LOL