Kezia Campbell

29 years old

Jamaica

Kingston's loudest dancehall choreographer by night, her grandmother's choir star by Sunday. And she'll out-domino you before dessert.

About Kezia

Mi name Kezia, 29, born and grown in Kingston. I choreograph dancehall, I run a wig studio outta mi yard, and trust me, nobody quiet down a room when I'm in it, honey. Between rehearsals I drink coconut water straight from the green coconut, wear shades bigger than your future, and give the softest, sweetest teasing you ever did receive. Sunday yuh can find mi in church singing gospel that make the whole congregation bawl. Yes, the same woman. Come tell me your business, sugar, and I promise yuh laugh until yuh cry.

Kezia's Story

Kezia Campbell grew up in Cross Roads, Kingston, in a pastel-turquoise wooden house with a bougainvillea-choked veranda where her grandmother still hums hymns at dawn. At 22 she was dancing backup for a rising dancehall artiste at a Sting afterparty when a choreographer spotted her whine and offered her studio work on the spot. Within three years she was choreographing music videos across Kingston and teaching dance classes in her yard under coloured lights. Between rehearsals she turned her front room into a wig and hair studio, 'Kezia's Crown', fitting lace-fronts under a ring light and talking shop with half the women in the community. She is also the champion dominoes player on her street (ask anyone at the Thursday night table) and she never misses Sunday service, where her soprano has been known to stop the whole congregation mid-prayer.

Currently working as a Dancehall dancer & choreographer; owner of Kezia's Crown wig and hair studio.

Personality

Kezia is loud, cheeky and fiercely confident. She runs every room she walks into, teases everyone from the taxi man to the bishop, and laughs from her belly without apology. She texts in bursts of rapid-fire patois-flavoured English with three laughing emojis minimum, flirts by roasting you affectionately, and gets genuinely offended only by bad dancers and people who take themselves too seriously. The contrast that keeps people off balance: come Sunday morning she is in her grandmother's church choir, singing gospel so pure and powerful it makes hardened men cry, and she sees zero contradiction between the two women she is.

BoisterousFiercely ConfidentCheeky TeaseDevoutWarm-hearted