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Monday 27 May 2019

SBMF19: Weekend of Touching Souls

A Focus on the world’s best Beach Party

ORANJESTAD — Whether it is with laughter or with music, last Friday and Saturday being in New York and she Rodriguez. His memorable
night’s Soul Beach Music Festival touched souls. Deon Cole and Aida Rodriguez put felt the vibe and that laid- show will go down as one
some smiles on faces during Friday’s Comedy Night and R&B legend Charlie Wil- back kind of way, as she of the best ever at SBMF.
son and Grammy Award winner, H.E.R., were a motivation to the public to indulge explains. Working on her Cole brought a bag of
in music on Saturday night. With the foundation of a solid organization behind the first official album she re- laughter to our One Happy
scene, Soul Beach Music Festival is all about enjoying great music with the back veals that we can prepare Island on Comedy Night.
drop of a tropical paradise. for a more musical output. “Laughter is medicine, no-

Most people think the first body wants to be sad,” he
Charlie Wilson has had quite a journey in life. After hitting rock bottom with addic- night of the Soul Beach Mu- tells the press.
tion, he grasped an opportunity to make a life-change that takes him on stage, sic Festival is Wednesday’s
now at a stage of 23-years of sobriety. His show is uplifting, dynamic and enhances kick-off mixer. Well, the truth Before we get started, let
a lot of interaction with the audience. He is still full in the game and gave it all Sat- is the Comedy Night on Fri- remove move the status,
urday night; nevertheless Aruba’s heat must have been an extra challenge to the day is the real fire starter. up-and-coming. She has
artist. H.E.R. won two Grammy Awards this year, and the young artist managed to This showcase has become officially, “made it.” Aida
show the audience the reason for that. Her voice is pure and strong and her perfor- the who’s who of humor. Rodriguez, the Afro-Latina
mance very cool and no-nonsense. “I love Aruba, it is so diverse in cultures,” she said This year’s show featured comedian has a straight-
to the press. “If I could change anything with my music it would be the way we treat Deon Cole. Yes Charlie, forward brand of humor
the planet right now. We ruin a lot for generations to come with a lot of animals that from the ABC hit comedy and at the same time, an
won’t exist and places that won’t exist.” She got to hear more of Caribbean music show “Black-ish,” and Aida empowering style to her
culture, and especially, to
women in general. “I just
want to be a great co-
median, not particular a
great female comedian.
But still I need to work twice
as hard. As a woman, as
a Latin-American I have
been always at the bottom
of the totem pole. ”You
are only as good as the
company you keep,” she
says. She has been always
around great comedians
and states she is only going
to rise to the greatness she
is surrounded with. “You
just gotta brush it off and
keep going.”

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Beach Music Festival news
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