Tito Nieves & Brian Mcknight at Lehman Center -Bronx , New York for the first time.
Two voices and One Soul combine their talents and expect to make history together while sharing the same stage.
Talk Bronx Attends The Tito Nieves & Brian McKnight Concert
Valentines love was still in the air and in full mode for the Two Voices & One Soul concert held at Lehman Center yesterday. The house was packed with nationalities of all sorts. The crowd ranged in ages showing that Tito & Brian captured the ears and hearts of many.There was a lot to look at and it was like an old school get together as we ran into many familiar faces, people we knew and folks you believe you know from somewhere. Vendors had small tables out displaying items such as candy imported from Puerto Rico, other charm items representing Puerto Rico, HOT pastelillos, CDs featuring the artists’ music and some nice cold beer; oh and water Seating was comfortable and the climate in the theater was comfy also.
Tito took the stage 1st to show off his 104 pound weight loss and his lyrical talent as well. He put on a great show with some nice dancers and routines which kept the show exiting. He took a moment to talk about his weight loss and it was obvious that he lost the weight as he was concerned over his health which almost bought him to tears as he started to talk about it and moved into the “Fabricando Fantasia” song. He sang many of his great hits and also worked on stage with a new group ‘Ocho Y Mas’. As we thought the show was over he came back out to represent the home team’s success, the New York Giants. Tito came out sporting a Giants jersey and performed an exciting extended version of “I like It Like That”. He also made an appearance with Brian on stage, which seemed unrehearsed; to pay respects and sing a verse to the well known Luther Vandross song “Never to Much”.
Tito did a great job. We have to admit though, Brian McKnight put out an outstanding show. His show was just a bit more animated than Tito’s. He really displayed why he’s one of the top performers of his time who has real vocal skills, needs no vocal assistance and still plays great with a live band. He had no problem showing his vocal range in combination with body gestures, showing off at times to get the girls excited. After getting his show started he allowed a girl to come sit on the stage as what he calls the best seat in the house. He basically let her sit right beside him as he sang a song to her. Toward the end of the song he ad her stand up dance with him, placed her hand on his rear and his followed on her booty! It was hilarious as this poor girl so excited and probably embarrassed at the same time went along with it. He performed some great hits such as “Back at One” and others. Who knew Brian had some very talented children who he also performed with on stage. The children gave Dad a break and took over the stage to perform their rendition of “Let’s Go Crazy”, a Prince favorite.
The Love Song King had an excellent band and had one interesting Bass player dubbed “Big Sexy”. He was one animated guy who you can tell loved playing music.. and dancing.
At the end of the show Brian McKnight was given a Proclamation and announced an official Bronxite by Majority Leader Joel Rivera. Tito Nieves was also awarded.
New York sponsors were the NY Daily News & Bank Of New York.
Overall the show was very refreshing, exciting and well deserved to be held in the Bronx!
Talk Bronx has put together a nice approximately 40 minute video recording video and audio of the show. It’s not the best but its good enough to enjoy at the least if you weren’t there. You can see the video on here:
Bronx Lab students were accepted by Posse Foundation and will meet with other city kids going to same colleges.
Bronx Students Earn Their Scholoarships To Join Posse.
Five standouts from a Bronx high school earned free tuition to prestigious colleges - and they’ll have a ready-made group of friends before they even step foot on campus.
The Bronx Lab School kids’ personalities, leadership skills and life experiences secured them scholarships from the Posse Foundation, which sends 141 city students to 30 universities across the country annually.
And in the months leading up to their freshman year, the students will meet weekly with their “posse” - up to a dozen other city students headed to the same colleges - to bond and prepare themselves for the culture shock.
“If I thought I was going myself, I’d be worried,” said Rasheed Azeez, 17, who will head to Trinity University in Texas. “But they came from the same places as me, and I feel more comfortable.”
All five of the applicants from Bronx Lab School’s first graduating class were accepted by the program, the first time all of a single city school’s hopefuls were selected.
The 18-year-old nonprofit searches for students who might be overlooked by the traditional, test score-dominated admissions process but would shine at the right colleges. The universities, in turn, diversify their student body with kids who wouldn’t normally consider going there.
Schools in five cities recommend thousands of applicants, who undergo a multipart interview process before 370 are selected.
DAN RAIA thinks that the Pelham Gardens section of the northeast Bronx is sinking, and as proof he points to the hole in the concrete driveway at his boxy brick house.
Nor was the chasm, 7 feet wide and 4 feet deep, the first sinkhole in that spot. Last April, shortly after part of Tiemann Avenue was repaved by the city’s Transportation Department, a hole appeared in the driveway after a northeaster. Mr. Raia, a 45-year-old facilities engineer who has lived on Tiemann for seven years, scrambled to fill the hole with topsoil.
After another storm, the hole reappeared, at which point he filled it with gravel. Then the rain came again, as did the sinkhole, even larger than before.
Now Mr. Raia has cordoned off the hole with plastic trash bins and yellow caution tape while he tries to figure out who or what is responsible.
“We never had this problem before they repaved the street,” Mr. Raia said, gazing mournfully at the hole through his living room window.
His sinkhole is not the only neighborhood mystery. Since the storm last April, at least a half-dozen people who live within a few blocks of Mr. Raia have reported structural damage to their homes. Paula Gelman’s house, which is across the street, shifted so suddenly during the storm that its basement dropped and its foundation cracked, at which point a Buildings Department staff member ordered her and her husband, David, to vacate the property.
I GREW up in the rough-and-tumble Morrisania section of the East Bronx. I’m not sure when Morrisania’s gangs began, but they were already there during the Revolutionary War.
It wasn’t patriots and Tories who battled it out in Morrisania during the British occupation of Manhattan, a period that lasted from 1776 to 1783, but their surrogates, called Skinners and Cowboys, who scalped men, molested women and murdered children of both sides.
The gangs of Boston Road and Southern Boulevard circa 1950 weren’t as mean and malicious, but I lived in a whirlwind of chaos nevertheless, where I was my own urban guerrilla who had to battle his way to school block by block.
There were terrible racial and religious divides in Morrisania. I belonged to the little enclave of poor Polish and Russian Jews that collected at the borders of Crotona Park.
There might have been physicists living in the Byzantine palaces of Crotona Park East, but they were failed physicists, men inhabiting some mysterious cocoon that no one could explain, least of all themselves.
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