Damion Mitchell, Contributor
( LEFT) Mothers rocking to the beat as celebrity mothers take their turn at the tables during the annual Celebrity Mothers Mix held in Manchester. (RIGHT) Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, holding coure at the turntable, much to the delight of popular disc jockey, Richie 'B' Burgess (right) and Winston 'Merritone' Blake. - PHOTOS BY DAMION MITCHELL
DISC JOCKEYING is not a popular feature among top female business leaders in Jamaica but those who spun the 'wheels of steel' at the fifth staging of 'Celebrity Mothers Mix' in Spur Tree, Manchester on Sunday, were exceptional.
For a moment the threat of heavy rains had dampened the prospect for the evening's proceedings staged annually by the Manchester Chapter of the Jamaica Lay Magistrates' Association, but when Paula Llewellyn, the Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions took to the turn tables, she made it clear that she and the other 'celebrity mothers' would be delivering a real treat to the other moms.
Beginning with the song Die with my Dignity Miss Llewellyn had scores of mothers on their feet and when she selected other hits like Ernie Smith's Duppy or Gunman and Beresford Hammond's Rock Away.
"I am not at work today," said Miss Llewellyn as she directed her assistants Craig Ross and Winston Meritone Blake to skip to Living Dangerously by Bounty Killer and Barrington Levy.
TOOK TO THE TURNTABLES
When Anya Schnoor, the chief operating officer of Pan Caribbean Merchant Bank took to the turntables the heavens opened but with it came hits like Last Dance and Dennis Brown's Here I Come blazing from speaker boxes.
Nigerian High Commissioner Olufolajimi Akintola later brought on music from her country in true African tradition.
"Is all about one love," she said, as she rolled on her music.
Executive Editor of the pure Class magazine in the Sunday Herald Christene King returned the tempo with hits from Beresford Hammond and Freddie McGregor's I See it You.
But it was Patricia Santino, the manager of Pro Hardware in Mandeville, Manchester who, transformed the venue into a dancing ground during her 15 minutes at the turntable with a medley of high tempo gospel songs.
And if that was not enough, then Marcia Providence's Hear My Cry played at the end of Mrs. Santino's 'spin' certainly lengthened the period of apostolic glory.
Sandra Shirley, the chief
executive officer of First Global Financial Services and guest 'spinner' Paula-Ann Porter-Jones of Fame FM also added to the evening's elegance.
