The highest 10 finalists within the 2025 Jamaica Pageant Tune Competitors will vie for the coveted title through the ultimate outcomes present on Saturday, July 26, at Emancipation Park in Kingston, starting 8:30 p.m., the place greater than $3 million in money and prizes will probably be awarded to the winner.
The competitors, organised by the Ministry of Tradition, Gender, Leisure and Sport by way of the Jamaica Cultural Improvement Fee (JCDC), attracted greater than 160 music entries this yr.
The ten finalists are Askia Livingstone – “Nation Vow”; Romane Ingram – “Deh Pon Mi Thoughts”; Oliver Ashley – “Jamaica You Have It All”; Jonah Jack – “Imaginative and prescient Jamaica”; Abigail Dunstan – ‘Candy Ja”; Raldene Dyer – “Jam Dung”; Julene Clarke – “A Jam Dung Dis”; Bredda C & Jegz – “Come Mek Wi Rally”; Christopher Laing –“Jamaica is Huge Huge In all places”; and Randeen Thomas – “Naah Go away”.
Pageant Tune Committee Chairman, Orville Hill, instructed JIS Information that each one entries submitted for this yr’s competitors had been preliminarily screened by a panel of judges over a two-day interval.
“Having closed the entries, all of the songs that had been entered went by way of a listening session [where] we organized for a panel of judges who’re well-known within the trade to come back collectively they usually listened to every music. From that listening session, they recognized the songs that they thought-about potential finalists and after doing that, we got here up with about 30 songs that got here out of the itemizing referred to as semifinalists,” he defined.
These 30 entrants competed within the semi-finals in Might on the Ranny Williams Leisure Centre in St Andrew from which the ten finalists had been chosen by a panel of judges.
“The $3,000,000 prize is [divided among the] three important elements of placing the music collectively, that are the producer, the author and the performer. So it’s meant to be $1,000,000 every… as a result of it takes fairly a little bit of creativity to give you your writing, the producer to place it in its right sound and, in fact, the performer who will carry their private model when it comes to supply,” Mr. Hill knowledgeable.
He added that the ultimate guarantees to be distinctive, with every of the finalists bringing one thing distinctive to the stage.
“We’ve got mixture of individuals who’re younger and progressive in addition to individuals who’ve been within the trade for a while, they usually have totally different genres of music that may come ahead. So I believe individuals can anticipate to get good selection, nice leisure and, finally, I believe we are going to discover a music that Jamaica can rally round as we get into our Independence celebrations. I invite all of Jamaica to come back and be entertained,” Mr. Hill stated.
The present is free to the general public and also will be broadcast stay on Tv Jamaica (TVJ) in addition to the social media pages of the JCDC.
