Protégé

Oh show choir, the love of my life. The one thing that I do where I can dance and sing my heart out and not have people judge me like I’m a weirdo. I love it. I’ve been doing it since 8^th grade where I ended up having a rap solo, and got to do a front flip in the middle of the performance. Ever since then I have loved show choir. It’s my favorite thing to do, I like it even more than football (don’t tell my dad that.) I love singing and dancing, and being in something where I can do that to my full extent, freaking amazing! This love became even more so when I made it into Protégé.

In Protégé I became a better singer and dancer than I ever thought I would be. In the beginning, it was hard. I had to sing better and dance better than I had to the previous year in Chanteurs. Then, with football going on at the same time, I had to catch up with the dancing. I missed most of the choreography camps where we learn how to dance the songs that we sing in our show. I eventually got to where I knew it, but it was hell. It made me frustrated knowing that I didn’t know them at the time, and it made it worse when no one would teach me. Well, I eventually got it down so good that I ended up dancing in all five songs in the front row, which is freaking amazing (four for dancing and one for being short.) I even had people at the end of the year tell me that I was the best guy dancer in Protégé.

From then on, the year got better and better. I tried out for the one solo that I knew that I could do better than most of the guys in the group, the rap solo for Cant Hold Us by Pentatonix. I got it and my ego was instantly boosted. I got praise from my parents, friends, and even upper classmen on how well I did the solo. On top of that, when we did the song, I was up on a box and it looked like I was floating in the middle of a group of people from the audience. I loved it.

Then I when I performed at Prairie Premier, I was awarded with the best male soloist in the prep division. This means that I out performed any other guy soloist at the entire competition. No big deal or anything.

It is also my belief that that solo was a big part in how I got into the Kennedy varsity show choir group, Happiness, the next year.