Kean’s Got Talent raises over $1,000 for the children’s specialized hospital
By Jasmin Kee | Published by April 13, 2018
Kean’s Musical Movements. Photo by Jasmine Kee.
On April 5, the Leadership Institute hosted their annual Kean’s Got Talent show to help raise money for the Children’s Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, New Jersey.
The Children’s Specialized Hospital is the nation’s leading provider of rehabilitation services for children with special health challenges like chronic illnesses as well as physical and mental health illnesses.
The Kean’s Got Talent show was held in the Little Theatre at the Miron Student Center, located on Kean University’s campus and the show ran from 7-10 p.m.
The show performances were divided into three categories. The first category was singing, which featured singers and rappers, the second category was dancing, and the third category was a freestyle category, which was for those who were reciting poetry or anything else that did not fall into the other two categories. There was also a lip sync battle at the end of the three category performances.
Throughout the night, audience members were encouraged to vote for their favorite performer from each category. There came a time for the reading of raffle ticket numbers for baskets that had prizes such as gift cards and cooking supplies and some winners took home multiple baskets.
The winners were announced just after the final lip sync battle performance and the winner in the first category for singing was Genesis Guzman who performed a song that she wrote. In the second category for dance, the winners were Kean’s Musical Movements and in the final category, the winner was Sara Ridgway, who performed Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off “ in American Sign Language (ASL).
“Well it does feel great to win but we are also very happy to be able to do this for a great cause as well,” said the members of Kean’s Musical Movements.
Some other performances included a freshmen named Elizabeth Thorsen who performed “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, a junior named Lucero Lopez who did a dance routine, and Keith Bell, also known as K-Bellz, who performed a rap.
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