Sadiki - contributed

Dancer: Sadiki

Real name: Sadiki Blackwood

Birth month: December 18

Familiar slang often used: "Cool reminder" and "Money Machine"

How/why did you start dancing?

"This dancing thing was all in respect of Bogle. He was the man and me as a likkle yout did want to be like this great dancer. And it move on from being around Bogle at Black Roses Corner at a dance that use to keep every Monday. That was the first place that I really started to dance. After that, I built a group called G-Unit and from there on wi link up with Elephant Man and we got our name and face out there."

What popular dances did you make?

"Most of the dance dem wey out there a me mek and to go and point finger and sey a me mek dat goin cause problem. The real Sadiki fans know what I have created. The recent style I have is the hat throwing up in the air and that was a successful dance that carried me through into doing slangs and deejay."

How long have you been dancing?

"Been dancing from I've been in school and I'm 28 years old now."

Who is your idol in dancing and why?

"My dancer has always been Bogle. He is the man and a him mek mi start dance and deejay and do all these things."

Most memorable moment in dancing?

"First time Father Wee Pow gave me a trophy for Dancer of the Year ... I believe that was in 2000 or 2001, when Stone Love anniversary was kept at Market Place."

What have you been up to lately?

"Well, for this year I'm dancing still but I'm mostly into doing deejay, doing 45s, culture music and gospel. A wide variety of music I will be doing."

What's new? (Dances, shows, tours and etc.)

"Wi have a brand new dance that the members of G-Unit built called 'Passport', which is basically opening and closing yuh hands while yuh whole body moving."

Advice to young and upcoming dancers?

"Keep focus, don't lose focus."

Shout Out!

"Mi jus waan big up all di dancer dem, like Chi Ching, Ding Dong, Sample 6, Cullo Squad, Timeless Dancers, Shelly Belly, John Hype, everybody."

-Teino Evans