The Black History Committee of Orange County Inc.

Presents the Ninth
Annual Black History

Celebration Gala

February 19, 2011
TASHA SMITH

 Tasha has played a wide range of roles in such feature films as “ATL” (Warner Brothers) with T.I. and Mykelti Williamson, “THE GOOD MOTHER” (Sony/Screen Gems) with Angie Harmon and Joel Gretsch, and “THE WHOLE TEN YARDS” (Warner Brothers) with Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry. She has also starred in the independent films, “MILES FROM HOME” with Meagan Good and Ty Hodges, and “PLAYA’S BALL” with Allen Payne and Elise Neal

Click here to see video of Tasha discussing when men cheat
 

The Entertainment for the 2011 Black History Gala
MC FOR THE EVENING IS ROD-Z

 
 

Rod's resume is quite extensive, here is small list of shows and celebrities he has worked on since 1996 when he started his career.

Stage Plays

The Colored Museum" (Ms. Roj) and (Walter Lee)
"A Soldiers Play" (Corporal Cobb)

Movies
"Black Spring Break I and II" (Greg)

Television
BET'S COMIC VIEW (4 APPEARANCES)
BET SPRING BLING (Audience Warm Up)
 

Shows and Special Events
 

The music for the evening will be provided by the dynamic sounds of Coco-Brown. The Phat Cat Players' "Sundress" from their Make It Phat, Baby began climbing Billboard's hip-hop/R&B charts in early spring 2000.  The Phat Cat Players came together in and around Florida A&M. Slater Thorpe attended Florida A&M University pursuing a degree in sociology/juvenile justice. He was a member of the university marching band's the Marching 100. He also began playing piano and bass and collaborating with other musicians, joining the Phat Cat Players as a background vocalist. Some of Thorpe's favorites are Earth, Wind & Fire, the Clark Sisters, Take 6, Phil Collins, Marvin Gaye, and Smokey Robinson. Singer Terra Baker is nicknamed "Earthchild" because of the sultriness of her voice.

 

COCO-BROWN YOU TUBE VIDEO

The American tenor, Curtis Rayam, studied at the University of Miami with Mary Henderson Buckely. He was finalist at the Metropolitan Auditions in 1972, and winner at the Dallas Competition in 1974.

Curtis Rayam made his professional debut in 1971 with the Miami Opera in Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. He has appeared in Dallas, Houston and Jackson Opera/South. He established a national reputation with the Houston Grand Opera in the role of Remus in Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, which was recorded on Deutsche Grammophon.