Saycon Sengbloh: Young and Powerful for Obama Award Recipient

Photo by: MontanaUSA used by permission
 

You guys I'm thrilled to announce I'm being awarded the Young and Powerful for Obama Award this coming Thursday October 25th! I will have a chance to celebrate in Atlanta with family and friends, a personal treat and sort of a birthday present as well. My birthday month, October, always sort of brings about some type of transition for me, either easy or hard yet transition that's definitely necessary. Just trying to work harder and be more motivated at my craft is more of a challenge in some ways and easier in others as the years go by! I hope to continue to make Atlanta proud!
Love,
Saycon

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

Everyday Warriors: Monica & Feeding America project

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For those of you who don't know I was born and raised in Georgia! I have Liberian roots on my dad side but I hail from College Park, GA, Old National East to be exact! Showtay! Anyway, I currently make my home in Brooklyn, NY but I keep up with artists from back home. So, I saw College Park, GA native and R&B star Monica on Wendy Williams and I was so excited to hear about her new album and reality show and as a fan of hers it was a great interview. Years ago my friend Khalid and I would sit and sing the Boy is Mine over and over again with stereo turned up, the song blasting on repeat! Anyway, Monica is still at it, making new music and has a great cause to represent. Its called Feeding America! I was inspired by her growth and her life in terms of having dealt with so many ups and down in her personal life. She is truly an extraordinary Everyday Warrior! I want to spread the word for the holiday season that Monica mentioned how you can help feed hungry children. There's so many children right here in America who don't have access to food daily. Let's all take a moment to donate today. You wouldn't believe $1 feeds 8 people! We can put a stop  to child hunger bring awareness many kids in the U.S. go with out meals daily. Click the link below to help!
http://feedingamerica.org/

I'll make a donation and be a child feeding warrior today!

Shout out to all the everyday warriors!

Saycon

sengbloh@aol.com

Motown Baby!

Hey guys just a little peak at the cast of the most recent workshop of the Motown inspired Berry Gordy musical! We spent much time tweaking the script and singing the changes! Its gonna be a good one, I found myself play several key character, important people in Mr. Gordy's life, including his beloved sister Anna Gordy,was formerly married to Marvin Gaye, the fabulous Martha Reeves, and the tough talking, smoothly powerful Edna Anderson. Many things change during the creative process but so far it has been amazing!

Saycon Sengbloh attends the NYC premiere of the Whipping Man!

Theater is alive and well! I attended the opening night for the Whipping Man starring Andre Braugher. It was a very unique show that give a bit of insite into the lives of slaves own by Jewish Americans. A different angle from the usual narrative on slavery the play also featured Jay Wilkison and Andre Holland who has an uncanny resemblance to Danny Soto. Of course I had a ball hamming it up in front of the red carpet "step and repeat"! I'm a recessionista, my shoes cost more than my entire outfit! We had fun laughing as the people told Danny congrats on the show that he happened to not be in! Great Fun!

Saturday Night Live!

So Saturday night was a blast nostalgic, timely, and fun! Hanging out with old friends enjoying the shenanigans that can only go on backstage at SNL! Maia, David, Danny, and I spent our time hanging out in Keenan's dressing room and watching the scene changes and set ups backstage. Security is already tight but with "the" Mark Zuckerberg on set it was extra tight. He's so young yet so very successful, being the creator of Facebook and all! We went inside the studio to watch Nicki Minaj's performances close up. She wore a fabulous gown for the first song: the cinderella look and a hood-colorful cat suit for part two, makeup flawless both times (shout-out Day of Buddhaflyy who introduced us to hip-hop's newest chanteuse at the end of the show! Afterwards we partied with more folks from Tri-Cities highschool. Famously the Saturday Night Live crew attends an After-Party and an After-After Party! Good Times ya'll!

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.

SAYCON in VIBE magazine!

Hi Everyone,

Its been a while and I have alot of catching up to do! During the last few months so much has happened and I have yet to blog about any of it! I've collected sooo many photos and little stories to tell about what's happening in my life and I look forward to getting it all blogged out! One of the most exciting things is that I'm currently featured in Vibe magazine (twice)! They did a great article and pictorial on Fela! on Broadway and there's also a fun article about the new Minx nail trend that features my hands. Special shout out to Edwing D'angelo for dresses, Mackenzie for styling, and Korto Momolu for the jewelry I wore during the video interview! If you haven't seen the magazine it's the Juice issue with 2 covers, one featuring Eminem and Dr. Dre and the other featuring Diddy, Janelle Monae and Rick Ross! Blessings to all!

Hugs and Kisses,

Saycon

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

Southern Pin-Up by Saycon: Now available on Itunes

"Southern Pin-Up" is available on Itunes! The original CD release by Saycon features new remixes and everybody's favorite soul remix: "It Was a Very Good Year!" The classically dope Frank Sinatra tune originally featured in Spike Lee's equally classic film Jungle Fever! If you haven't seen it rent it and if you haven't heard Saycon's version of the song, get thee to Itunes and go cop it imeeeediately!!!See Saycon Sengbloh play Abraham Lincoln in HAIR on Broadway!

If you can't see the link below copy and paste this link:

http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditunes/?q=Saycon+Southern+Pin-Up

Saycon in Vogue Magazine (Again)

Blessing and happy black history month!

Hey Everybody! Check me out in this February 2009 issue of Vogue magazine! Piper Perabo, Elisabeth Moss, and yours truly, Saycon Sengbloh are featured in an article about up and coming actresses on Broadway! I had a great time and a truly exciting fashion shoot with famed photographer Poppy de Villeneuve! It was a glamorous good time! And I can't wait for my Mom to see my picture because she just loves Vogue magazine! I got the magazine 'bug' from her, because I love to read the monthly fashion pages too! Enjoy some candid shots from the shoot. Shout out to Sahr Ngaujah who videotaped the photo session for me!

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