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Nassau, The Bahamas – National Regatta Song competition winner Don \u2018Bahamadon\u2019 Rolle wants to change a \u201cdangerous trend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe foreign cultures that have infiltrated our youth through music have proven devastating with their negative impacts,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n
His latest hit \u2018Regatta Time\u2019 is about pointing Bahamians to their roots.<\/p>\n
\u201cBahamians need the integrity and backbone of their culture to know who they are or else they would be more susceptible to go any way that some other culture takes them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Dr Daniel Johnson encouraged him to continue his \u201cmessaging in song because it tells the story of us as Bahamians.\u201d<\/p>\n
Accompanied by his producers Owen \u2018Ovadosa\u2019 Davis and Trevor \u2018Bigga-tea\u2019 Taylor, Rolle on Monday accepted his first prize cheque from Burns House.<\/p>\n
Dr Johnson noted that his Ministry partners with young Bahamian artists to promote their products \u201cand this Bahamian-ness that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
A goal of the programme, he said, is to \u201cmake sure we highlight the people who are doing the best creative Bahamian works of expression.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Caption: Pictured during the presentation are, from left, Colyn McDonald (judge), Kira M. Horton (Burns House retail marketing manager), Janniffer Thurston (Kalik Brand manager), Don \u2018Bahamadon\u2019 Rolle (winner), Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Dr. Daniel Johnson, Angelique McKay (Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture), Trevor Taylor (producer), Owen Davis (producer), and Cindy Gay (Regatta committee assistant secretary). (BIS Photo\/Patrick Hanna)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" National Regatta Song competition winner Don \u2018Bahamadon\u2019 Rolle aims to point Bahamians to their roots, singing a message of “Bahamian-ness” – particularly to youth influenced by foreign cultures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[26,55,104,22,366],"class_list":["post-23389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-arts","tag-awards","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-regatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}