Queen T the one to watch

KEEP A CLOSE EYE on Queen T, the new artiste from the Tone Deaf Camp who has introduced the dance Wiggle and Dip.

Performing to the song of the same name she made her stage debut at the second LIME/HOTT 95.3 FM Fantastic Four Cavalcade in Gall Hill, St. John and she will also be at the final cavalcade at the National Stadium on Saturday, June 12 and in Celebration Time tent during the season.

This is not really her first time singing soca, for a few years she sang back up in the tent Tomorrow’s Children and decided to take to the stage after a conversation with Anderson Blood Armstrong.

“I met Blood last year and he encouraged to me to sing so I went to his studio and we were working on a song and Blood came up with the hook wiggle and dip, so I wrote a version around it. He thought it was really good and he encouraged me to perform it in a tent,” she said.

The song is also featured on the compilation album Soca Dons & Divas and she is looking to take it to Soca Royale, formerly Party Monarch. “I know I am coming up against veterans but I think my chances are as good as any, from the reviews I am getting I know the song can do well.”

Meanwhile, the 20-year old who likes fashion and who was also a contestant in the 2007-2008 Amateur Model Search has just finished an Associate Degree in Accounts and Economics at the Barbados Community College and is looking forward to furthering those studies at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus in September.

“I want to be an entertainer but I also want to be a Certified Accountant, I want to have that to fall back on and help me in my career as an entertainer.”

The St. George resident, who designed the costume she performs in says she is the entire package – singer, songwriter, dancer and revealed that it was from her father Wilbur Bailey that she got the love for music.

“He used to sing in a band called the Love Circle and we use to travel with the band so that is where I got my real first exposure to music.”

That was as early as five-years old, by nine she had won first place in the Spirit of the Nation Show singing a cover of Midnight Blue, by Wendy Alleyne, for about eight years she participated in the Richard Stoute Teen Talent Contest and even won in the Gospel competition, in 2006 she was first runner up in the Alleyne School pageant.

Queen T’s real name is Tamara Bailey.

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