PHOTO BY MA'ATOLOGY
PICS FROM THE RED CARPET
Designer of the Year nominee Kaniya (center) with her models and New Scene News host Mike Tree
Label of the Year nominee Quincy Elliott of ISM Records with label crew Bankboii, Breezy Jo and
Hakim Stwart with Tree.
Barber of The Year nominee Keith Jefferson and wife, Marsha.
Athlete of The Year nominee Eddie Ross
Model of The Year nominees Farrar Twins
who always add a spice of conversation with their fashion sense..
Female Rapper of the Year nominee Cedes.
Female R&B Artist nominee Cheron Brash Phillips
Business of The Year nominee Shana Robinson of Slim Goodies. She was one of the
ones who brought on the glamour with this gray on gray unitard with see through bottom skirt.
Athlete and Student of The Year nominee William Jenkins
R&B Male Artist nominee Deandre Perryman brought some hip hip swag with his black and white
vest and white jeans ensem.
Author of The Year nominee Alicia Howard
Designer of The Year nominee Daniel Reyes (center) and his models and assistants
R&B Male Artist nominee Mookie Tolliver.
Female Rap Artist nominee Lady Lionness. She also brought some glam with this sleek black shoulderless, flare sleeve dress.
Author of The Year nominee Mary L. Wilson brought some uniquness with her ensem with bowtie,blue jean shirt and fatiques
skirt.
Beautician of the Year nominee Tracy Westmoland.
Model of the Year nominee :aura Niboh was the best dresses female hands down with this
canary yellow asymentrical dress.
DJ of the Year nominee Mos Precious.
Comedian of the Year nominee L'zs Up.
R&B Male Artist nominee Eternity Black.
Female R&B Artist of the Year T.K. wore a jazzy white tux, black slacks and old school black and white Stacy Adams shoes.
Beautician of the Year nominee Easley Done .
Female Rap Artist nominee Trith Doit wore this sexy see through white number with heels.
DJ of the Year nominee Boogie Corleone.
Person of the Year Chantelle Nickson-Clark giving rocker glam with this black jacket and
red low cut dress,
Business of the Year nominee Dameon Christian was the best dressed male that nite with
this accustom made black tux with white stripes.
Comedian of the Year nominee Larry Greene.
Person of the Year nominee Lamont Reece
TV personality GaryBoyd interviews Christian as rap artist T Baby, his sister, joined them.
T Baby knights Christian's outfit. LOL.
Female R&B Artist Calela chilling backstage preparing to perform. She is also
looking lovely in this blue dress and giving life with those vixen stiletto pumps!!!
Models rehearse their walks before the show.
Model of The Year nominee Sunni LeFlare giving some bohemian chic with her hair and ensem.
Rap Artist and Barber of the year nominee Illbleed.
Boyd working the crowd minutes before the show starts.
Opening up the show was hip hop artist Peetey Weestro who was rocking that brown sable fur.
Next up performing was Lady Lionness
Hosting the show was host DJ Wilson.
Poet Lightning, who was sporting a new look physically, spat a few bars before presenting the first award Female High School Athlete to....................
JAMECIA HARPER!
Wilson funning around with the crowd.
Reece presented the award to Male High School Athlete to...............................
EDDIE ROSS!
Calela was up next to perform.
Wilson asked her to sing for her.
Wilson presented to be slayed by her voice and fell to the floor.
Clark presented the Student Award to................
WILLIAM JENKINS!
Next to perform was Eternity Black.
Robinson won the Business Award .
LeFlare presented the Author award to...........................
MARY L WILSON!
While giving her thank you speech, Wilson mentioned that she was recently cancer free.
One of the highlights was during the poetry segment before the Poet of the Year award when Lightning got a standing ovation for speaking her provocative poem about being a black woman as it relates to other prominent black women in Black History. The award eventually had gone to Louis Conphliction who was not present at the award show.
Boyd spoke on how important to support each other (and that his jacket was bought in New York.lol) before presenting the Beautician Award to.....
TRACY WESTMOLAND!
During her speech she said that she can do all types of styles and that black women needs to embrace their natural hair and although she is wearing a weave, that it was important that women keep their natural hair healthy under weaves.
Next up performing was Cedes.
Model/actress Rahja Janala, whose bronze dress was breathtaking, presented the Barber Award to....
KEITH JEFFERSON!
NEXT WAS THE FASHION SHOWCASE WITH THE NOMINATED DESIGNERS.
FIRST WAS NOUVEAU BY DANIEL REYES
Reyes.
NEXT UP WAS VARAMEL BY KANIYA SLUSHER
Journalist Rodney Norman presented the Fashion Designer Award to.....
KANIYA SLUSHER!
And she is only 14-years-old!
Wilson roasting the crowd again.
Performing next was Mookie Tolliver
Tolliver serenaded a female audience member.
Tolliver getting up close and personal with the crowd.
THERE WAS A 30 MINUTE INTERMISSION. During it, OUTCAM took pics of som eof teh award winners, performers and presenters
There's Westmoland holding her award.
Tolliver, Lightning's mother and Lightning.
Ross was all smiles holding his award.
Award winner Jenkins takes a pic with Lady Lionness.
Award winner Wilson takes a pic with family and friends.
DJ Mos Precious backstage prepping to perform.
THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW STARTED WITH....
........a dee-jay Sixty Second Spin Off showdown with DJ Mos Precious and DJ Boogie Corleone, both of who were nominated along with DJ 618 who was not present. The award was presented to....
BOOGIE CORLEONE!
He thanked his his late mother whom he said was his inspiration and influence in getting
into music and said that he almost quit dee-jaying after he passed.
NEXT UP WAS THE COMEDY SHOWCASE with the Comedian of The Year nominees
First up was Lz's Up
Next was Larry Greene.
And last was Willie C who killed it on stage talking about the stage set up, the hosts' wardrobe changes and other insights.
AND THE WINNER WAS.....
Willie C presented by Wilson.
He thanked his late mother who was his inspiration to perform.
Performing next was Cheron Brash Phillips.
Perryman presented the Model award to......
LAURA NIBOH!
She was very humbled to receive the award.
Performing next was IllBleed.
Shana Slim Goodies presented the Record Label award to....................
Ill State of Mind Records,ISM!
Performing next was TK who sang a capella and then spat a few bars
Before Westmoland presented the R&B Female Award, she gave props to the award lady, Miss India, and her ensem,
And the winner was....
TK!
Performing next was Deandre Perryman
Wilson presented the R&B Male Award to.....
DEANDRE PERRYMAN!
He talked about the East St Louis based program Put Down the Guns and Pick Up Your Sons during his speech on helping urban black males who are on the streets,
Performing next was Truth Do It
Her stans were in full force.
There's Willie C holding his award in the crowd.
Slusher presented the Female Rap award to.................
TRUTH DO IT!
Rap Male Award was presented to Chezboi
Soon after he won, he performed.
Chezboi in the crowd.
Performing next was hip hop artist J-Star
Theres TK holding her award.
Award producer Malik Herron thanked the crowd for their support before presenting the
last award of the evening Person of the Year Award to.......
CHANTELLE NICKSON-CLARK!
Clark thanked God and family and talked about her organization,Pink Ladies giving support to women with cancer. She also shared that her mother and other family members who passed on from the disease and told an inspirational story involving bad weather and driving in it as an analogy of what life will bring you and taking chances.
There's Clark holding her award.
Quincy Elliott holding his award.
Award winner Truth Do it with supporters and nominee Cedes.
J Star and his crew getting interviewed about the struggles of being a black youth and how he will try and set an example with his music.
RECAP: The first St Louis Star Awards was a good effort with it being its first awards. It was a decent crowd of some of St Louis' own in the fields of entertainment, education and business. The set up was very organized and ran smoothly. The award winners were chosen by the public through a series of rounds and the Top Three were selected as nominees. The only drawback was people who lost at the awards leaving after they didn't win. The host DL Wilson was charming but had a hard time getting crowd members to joke along with him during some of the roasting moments. He also made a joke of butchering people's name which became a bit in the show. But overall, it was a very entertaining show and we are sure it will progress in years to hopefully come.
