The Dancehall Queen is a dancing
competition born in Jamaica more than 30 years ago. At the beginning,
this kind of competition was held just in Jamaica within Jamaican girls
and the winner (The Queen) could gain money and popularity.
Over the years, it has become a worldwide event starting from The Caribbean
Islands, going to America, until Japan. Girls loving dancehalls and dancehall
music around the world are usually charming by this kind of sensual competition
and they also start dancing in that unusual but very exciting way of moving.
Dancehall Queen Contest and Dancehall Reggae music are spreading over
the world nearly at the same time. Girls around the world compete at the
National Contest in their own countries in order to fly to Jamaica to
perform at The International Dancehall Queen Contest and win the mighty
crown of “the Queen of the Dancehall”.
The European DHQ Contest’ s first edition has took
place on the 21st of April 2007, in Bologna, Italy after its promoter,
the Pirates Production, had to change its date twice.
The ten Dancehall Queens coming from ten different European
Countries – Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Holland,
Italy, Polland, Spain, United Kingdom – fought properly for European
crown. More than thousand people coming from all over Europe was there
to support one’s queens.
I could tell at glance that the French Dancehall Queen
Shisha could win the competition; in fact, euphoric viewers brought her
with applauses, trumpets, whistle, fire round by round... That was nearly
incredible!!
During the competition the UK Dancehall Queen Twista stood
out among all other dancers as well as Shisha. Thus, France against UK
was the final step called “Move fi Move” and Twista was rightly
second. As I said before, Shisha won the biggest trophy, the first European
crown and above all, a real chance to enter the 2007 International DHQ
Competition in Montego Bay, Jamaica on the 28th July 2007.
Special thanks to:
Enrico Vicari – Pirates Production' s general manager
Lisa “MissTake” Cataldo – Pirates Production's artist
coordinator
Round:
01 round demonstrative
1 round 10 queen - Reverse by thing/Heathen/Dem time deh/Anger management/Sidewalk
university etc.
2 round 8 queen - High altitude/Quick draw/Raging bull
3 round 6 queen - Power cut/Red bull & Guinness
4 round 3 queen - Step out
5 round 2 queen - Sativa aka Bad from mi born (Munga)
Move fi Move - “Swing it Weh”, “Hot Fuck” and
“Dutty Wine”
The names of all the participants and the first three:
European DHQ 2K7 Shisha from France Shisha @ Myspace
No.2 Twista from United kingdom Twista @ Myspace
No.3 Veronik Raheem from Italy
Valerie Tavcar from Austria
Najois Sabra and Monique Elliott from Belgium
Lohmus Lisa from Estonia
Kim La Queen from Germany Kim @ Myspace
Truszkowska Sonia Polland
Irene Miranda Lechuga from Spain
The Jury:
Talita Vecchini - Italian DHQ 2003
Joanna Krochmalska - Promoter DHQ Polland
Brian Martin - Big head promoter International DHQ by Mo Bay, Jamaica
Mc:
Clava - One Love Hi Powa - from Italy
Phillip Clarke from Jamaica
Selecta:
Mad kid from Italy
Report / Fotos by Giulio Siroli
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