Look
what I have here... Vy Higginsen’s
Gospel for Teens Choir will perform live on the season finale of the hit
NBC reality program “The Celebrity
Apprentice,” airing this Sunday, May 20th from 9 – 11 p.m. Arsenio
Hall and Clay Aiken are the final two contestants this season on
“The Celebrity Apprentice,"
produced by Mark Burnett Productions in association with Trump Productions LLC.
Mark Burnett, Donald Trump, Page Feldman and Nancy Gunn are the program’s
executive producers.
The
Gospel for Teen Choir’s
appearance on the live season finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” marks their fifth national television appearance this past year, having recently been featured on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” and “The Early Show,” ABC TV’s “This Week,” and “The Nate Berkus Show.”
appearance on the live season finale of “The Celebrity Apprentice” marks their fifth national television appearance this past year, having recently been featured on CBS TV’s “60 Minutes” and “The Early Show,” ABC TV’s “This Week,” and “The Nate Berkus Show.”
Gospelfor Teens is a program of the Mama Foundation for the Arts and Vy's Higginsen's
School of Gospel, Jazz and R&B Arts, located in Harlem, New York. Gospel
for Teens, founded in 2006, is a highly respected and influential music program
for youth between the ages of 13 and 19. Twice a year, between 40 and 60
participants are selected through an audition process, and those chosen attend
for no cost. Students learn music history and vocal techniques and are
encouraged to discover their personal artistic talent and expressions while
building self-confidence, on stage and off. The Gospel for Teens Choir serves
as ambassadors of gospel music, passing the music from this generation to the
next, while bringing together people of all races, nationalities and
religious/spiritual backgrounds. The Gospel for Teens Choir has performed
nationally at various events and venues, including recent appearances at the
TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, CA and the 2012 Stellar Gospel Music Awards
in Nashville, TN. Locally the Gospel for Teens Choir has performed at the
Apollo Theater, the American Museum of Natural History, Yankee Stadium, Central
Park’s Wollman Rink, Grand Central Station and St. Paul Community Baptist
Church.
Members
of the Gospel for Teens Choir appear in the production of Mama, I Want to Sing:
The Next Generation, which recently celebrated its one year anniversary at The
Dempsey Theater (127 West 127th Street). Called “hard to resist” by The New
York Times and “mesmerizing” by The Amsterdam News, this revival of Mama, I
Want to Sing, the 1983 gospel musical based on the life and times of singer Doris
Troy (“Just One Look”), stars the choir’s Co-Music Directors Ahmaya
Knoelle Higginson and Elijah Ahmad Lewis, and also features many choir
members in the cast. -SOURCE
