November 20, 2024 — Saving Our Daughters took over Lounge Studios in New York Metropolis for a really particular reside recording session, that includes a star-studded lineup of “Celeb Godparents.”
Based in 2014, Saving Our Daughters is a company devoted to supporting younger women of colour in overcoming limitations and empowering them to realize their highest potential. The women within the group are additionally referred to as “Scholar Cinderellas” and are paired with girls of colour within the leisure trade, known as “Celeb Godparents.”
Led by godparent Megan Piphus, a musician and the primary Black feminine puppeteer on “Sesame Avenue,” this Saving Our Daughters occasion gave the scholars an opportunity to report reside vocals for 3 inspiring songs off the brand new collaboration album, “Cinderella Sweep.”
“I am ready to have the ability to mentor younger women and supply them a view, a illustration, of what it seems to be like for a woman of colour to be within the leisure trade,” says Piphus. “Hopefully them seeing somebody that appears like them conjures up them to look previous any limitations they might have had of their thoughts.”
The Scholar Cinderellas obtained to sing with Piphus, together with Broadway star Jasmine Forsberg and Disney Channel actors Emmy Liu Wang and Sway Bhatia; Megan’s puppet, Mini, even makes an look!
“It makes me really feel like I can do something, and it is given me a really large leap ahead,” one Scholar Cinderella mentioned relating to the fun-filled day.
Each Piphus and Forsberg emphasize their hope that this occasion can be one thing the ladies can really feel impressed and empowered by for the remainder of their lives.
“Once I was a little bit woman, I used to be blessed with such unimaginable creative mentors in my life, and I all the time knew that once I grew up, I needed to have the ability to pay that ahead,” says Forsberg. “Being on these tracks with all of the little Cinderellas is simply so enjoyable and so thrilling!”
