RANDOM: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Hey #KCRyders! Happy Valentine's Day! Below you can watch a throwback video (via the "2U Era") of KC showing the ladies of the #KCRyder camp just how to keep it cute in lingerie and sleepwear on Valentine's Day as she shops in La Senza in Brampton. Enjoy!

WATCH: KESHIA CHANTÈ CAMEOS IN CBC'S REMAKE OF "SUNSHINE SKETCHES"

Submitted by Linda

At most KC's camera time in the CBC remake of the 1952 classic, "Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town" equates to all but two-minutes. Thus rightfully labeled a "cameo" not a feature. However Keshia uses her camera time wisely, and you can tell that she's becoming more comfortable as she comes into her own both as an artist and a budding actress.

The day before "Sunshine Sketches" aired I read an article that mentioned exactly what song Keshia would be performing, and after looking it up I was anxious to see just how Keshia would make the song her own. Clearly she does amazing soul-stirring rendition of the Burton Cummings 1977 classic "I'm Scared" and you can watch it below.You can also watch her brief acting clip as well. Hopefully she takes on more acting roles, or cameos it'd be great to see her extend her acting resume.

To view the movie "Sunshine Sketches in A Little Town" in it's entirety click here.

Credit to Linda for uploading KC's segments.

KC covers  Burton Cummings "Im Scared" in SSIALT Pt. 1
 
Keshia Chante on SSIALT part 1 (2/12/12) by sweetpreciousbrat

KC in SSIALT Pt. 2

Keshia Chante on SSIALT part 2 (2/12/12) by sweetpreciousbrat

BREAKING NEWS: WHITNEY HOUSTON DEAD AT 48

This is a tremendous loss for the music world. It was reported by various sources Icon, singer, actress and legend Whitney Houston was pronounced dead earlier this evening as reported by her publicist. She was only 48. Her legacy as a musical entertainer and one of the greatest voices of all time inspired many acts such as Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey.

On a personal note I remember some of my earlier moments in my childhood surrounded by her infectious music and how we used to play her music a lot around the house and I even remember how my aunts and cousins and I went out to see her movies "The Bodyguard", "The Preachers Wife" and jamming to her music at our annual family cookouts when I was a kid. Her vocal prowess and presence will never be duplicated, but forever she'll be remembered as a musical icon.

From us here at LKC our thoughts and prayers go out to her daughter Bobbi Kristina, mother Cissy Houston and cousin Dionne Warwick, close friend and singer Brandy Norwood (who's birthday is also today and of which she starred with in the 1997 remake of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella) as well as her extended family and friends.

Source: CNN.com

KC QUICK NEWS: KC TO APPEAR ON SEASON 2 OF TOP CHEF CANADA

Even though they spelled her name wrong, Keshia Chante is among the list of Canadian celebrities lined up to appear on Season 2 of Top Chef Canada. Chante recently made the announcement to her #KCRyders officially via her social networking sites Twitter and Facebook and you can view the official press release from Toronto Life by clicking here. Congrats to Keshia!

CYINTERVIEW.COM INTERVIEWS KESHIA CHANTE & PUTS AALIYAH RUMORS TO REST

Submitted by Albert(@koolkidincash93)

For those of you that don't know Keshia, you'll get to know her completely in this interview. The interview took place a day after Aaliyah's birthday this year. KC gives an insight to her back-story, how she came about in the industry, almost spanning an entire decade! They discuss her drafting up her third album "Night & Day", and how it came about. She breaks down as to why she's not in US and overseas market as of yet, but how she's got a great desire to expand her brand here and overseas. She also explains and clears up the "Aaliyah Movie" rumors. You can hear and read the entire interview on CYInterview.com by clicking here.

WATCH: KC & CANFAR VISIT NORTHERN SS FOR THE 19TH ANNUAL "HAVE A HEART" CAMPAIGN

Yesterday KC & CANFAR visited Northern Secondary School for their 19th Annual Have A Heart Campaign Week. We posted pics from various places on twitter and you can view more photos courtesy of CANFAR by clicking here.


CANFAR also tweeted that their visit from Northern was documented by CBC, which you can watch below starting at the 21:10 mark.

Sidenote: How appropriate for cross promo! This Sunday February 12, you can catch Keshia on CBC TV in the re-adaptation of the Canadian literary classic, "Sunshine Sketches of A Little Town" at 8pm EST.

Keshia & CANFAR visit Northern SS

NEW PICS: KC Visits Northern SS for CANFAR'S 19th HAVE A HEART CAMPAIGN

via @WSCanada

Today CANFAR's Youth Ambassador, Keshia Chante paid a special visit to Northern Secondary School, to talk to some very lucky and amazing students for the annual "Have A Heart" campaign week. Keshia was even entreated to a song by their CANFAR club, after which she spoke to the students and signed autographs and shirts for her #KCRyders. You can view the photos from the event in full, on our Facebook by clicking here.

KC QUICK NEWS: KC AWARDED A MuchFACT FOR "I MISS U"

Morning #KCRyders! Shoutout to our boy iSH [actor (KC's televison co-star on SOUL) & rapper] for the info. He tweeted to Keshia on yesterday the following:

congrats to my tv sister @KeshiaChante for the muchfact! Much love!

Of course had to do a little research and so upon doing said research I found out that Keshia was awarded what's called a MuchFACT, an award to help assist with the production of the music video for her new single "I Miss U". This is a great award, and thus it'll result in a quality music video, not leaving the funding solely on her label Tanjola. Clearly it's a God-send so, I now understand a lot more why Keshia taps Canadian resources to use for her videos because look at the funding Canada offers to support its own! Even so I hope that she enlists a director from the states at least once because she deserves a Melina-Anthony Mandler- Collin Tilley directed video as much as the next person.

Keshia is among one of 54 recipients of the award. Congrats to Keshia & Tanjola! Can't wait to see the video treatment!  

Source: http://muchfact.ca/news/90

MUCHFACT RESULTS FOR FEB. 2-3, 2012 JURY

MuchFACT and PromoFACT Announce Award Recipients                                         

Toronto, ON (February 3, 2012) MuchFACT (A Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent) is pleased to announce the fifty-four award recipients from the February 2nd and 3rd, 2012 Jury meeting.
Three hundred and thirty-two music video, viral video, EPK and website applications were considered and a total of $545,444 was awarded to the following:

Music Videos
Tory Lanez for Beautiful Place
The Envy for Music to My Ears
Jaydahmann for Go Crazy
Cookie Duster for Stand Up Two Feet
Victoria Duffield for Break My Heart
Metric for Youth Without Youth
The Airplane Boys for Still Young
Carly Rae Jepsen for Curiosity
Faber Drive for Do It In Hollywood
Sum 41 for Blood In My Eyes
Peter Jackson ft. Karl Wolf for #1 Fan
Sese for PGK ft. Emerson Brooks
Dragonette for Let It Go
Keshia Chante for I Miss You
Tyler Medeiros for Radio ft. Flo Rida
Spesh K for Hip Hop Since
Tona ft. Kardinal Offishall for Timing
Hello Beautiful for Tick Tock
The Extremities for Dial Tones ft. Ghettosocks, Ambition and LushLife
Kreesha Turner for Love Again
City and Colour for The Grand Optimist
George Nozuka for Don’t Go
Maestro for Reach for the Sky ft. Classified

WATCH: KC & ETALK DISCUSS WINTER SKIN CARE

Hey #KCRyders! First off congrats on making Keshia's new single "I Miss U" the BOTB (Best Of The Best) winner of Ottawa's Hot 89.9 with The Ryan Lindsey on last night!

Source: Twitter

Voting resumes again on Monday so keep up the amazing work!

In case you missed it, Keshia was on ETalk with a short segment regarding "Winter Skin Care". You can watch the short clip below courtesy of Linda (@miuseem) our LKC Media Guru! Enjoy!

CONFIRMED: KC TAPS VICPARK FOR NEW SINGLE "I MISS U"

Hey #KCRyders! By now you should already know the big news! If not read on! Three days after I posted my random thoughts on "I Miss U" being Keshia's next single, today she served to reiterate what we at LKC already knew. It's officially confirmed, "I Miss U" produced by VicPark is Keshia's 5th single (if you count "Edit, Cut, Delete U" as her 4th single) to be lifted from her third album "Night & Day". The first legitimate R&B single of Keshia's to be sent to radio since, 2006's classic anthems "Been Gone" & "2U" ("Test Drive" was a viral single so it doesn't count.). While a great song, there's just something about "If U Say" that trumps every other R&B song on this album... nevertheless I'm ecstatic that she's finally gotten a chance to release an R&B record this era!

The song itself is simply a pleasant ballad in which Keshia reassures that special someone that no matter where they are or what they're doing they don't have to doubt that she misses them, and vice versa. Clearly it's amazingly single worthy (having been pinned by both Keshia and VicPark's  Angelo "Levi" Themelkos (@levisingit), Dan Talevski (@dantalevski) & Murray Daigle, Anthony M Jones (@AnthonyM412)  and it'll be interesting to see how well they promote and market this single, as well as who Keshia taps for the video concept.

You can purchase Keshia's new single "I Miss U", as well as "Night & Day" from which the new single is lifted worldwide at these online retailers (Itunes.com Itunes.ca Amazon.com, Amazon.ca and MapleMusic.com ) , or in stores (Canada Only).