Upstate man shares his experience of performing during Super Bowl halftime show

GREENVILLE, SC (FOX Carolina) – Jakevis Thomason is a 2020 graduate of University of Southern California and a 2016 graduate of Wade Hampton High School. But now he can add 2021 Super Bowl performer to his resume.

This Upstate native is joyful to be house after a fascinating efficiency.

Thomason was a dancer for singer The Weekend’s halftime show efficiency.

His mom, Oneshia Edens talks about how she watched the halftime efficiency with a lot pleasure in her coronary heart. “That’s my baby, that’s my baby. I was pointing, like, that’s him.”

Thomason’s agent submitted content material of the younger dancer which led to him getting picked for the gig.

He needed to maintain issues below wraps for job necessities. So, when Thomason informed his mom he was going to Tampa it was one thing he wasn’t overly hyped about.

“Oh yea, I’m dancing behind the Weeknd, and he was just very calm about it; and I literally wanted to jump out of my skin,” Edens mentioned.

“My mom put me into dance and ever since then I kept going with it,” Thomason mentioned.

Rehearsal began round February 1, nearly, for the large day. Then later assigned dates and bodily places to wonderful tune the set.

“To practice and with all the lights, equipment, everyone else; but it’s nothing like show day when it comes to that time to actually perform,” he mentioned The experience has been described as out of physique and mind-blowing, an accomplishment he’s thrilled to share.

This style of life within the grand stage is one he hopes will result in many sooner or later.

“I mean there are so many people I would like to work with. I hope that I get that chance to choreograph a super bowl one day in my life as well,” Thomason mentioned.

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