Kimiela ‘Sweet’ Isaacs made historical past over the weekend when her track #OneJamaica clinched the highest spot within the Jamaica Pageant Tune Competitors.
The announcement was made on Saturday on the Karl Hendrickson Auditorium at Jamaica Faculty in Kingston.
Isaacs was chosen by means of a mixture of votes from a panel of judges and public voting.
Out of the ten finalists, Isaacs, who’s visually impaired, was certainly one of six girls to succeed in the ultimate spherical of this 12 months’s competitors, probably the most within the contest’s almost 60-year historical past. She is the primary visually impaired artist to win the competitors.
Born blind, Isaacs is not any stranger to creating historical past. In 2012, she grew to become the primary visually impaired scholar in Jamaica to earn a music diploma – a bachelor’s in jazz and in style music research from the Edna Manley Faculty of the Visible and Performing Arts.
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The trainer and entertainer has a notable historical past with Jamaica Cultural Growth Fee (JCDC) competitions, having secured second place within the Jamaica Gospel Tune Competitors in 2009 and being a finalist within the Jamaica Pageant Tune Competitors in 2021.
Different notable finalists on this 12 months’s competitors included Miss Hanover Pageant Queen 2023 Tricia ‘Trisstar’ Cunningham with Jamaica Jamaica and media persona Pepita Little with We Are Jamaicans.
Isaacs will take dwelling a share of the $3 million money prize, which is split among the many profitable track’s performer, songwriter, and producer.
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The opposite finalists on this 12 months’s competitors included Auraiya Hope with Proud Jamaican, Sister Novelette with Fi Mi Island Dwelling, TrishMaq with Jamaica is a Huge Model, Lex M.D. with Jah Love This Land, Renzzah with Waa Again Jamaica, Reggae Maxx with Higher Jamaica, and Casey Donaldson with Candy Jamaica.
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