On the Road Again
Live Reviews:

Melkysedeck
December 12, 1998
Bamboo Club, Toronto, Ontario

It was a family affair as two members of the eclectic Jersey-based Refugee Camp All-Starz made their way to centre stage at Toronto's Bamboo club last Saturday night (December 12). At the eleventh hour, a young cat, decked in a furry pullover with matching fur Kangol and bearing an uncanny resemblance to a certain Fugees frontman, emerged out of the crowd and took his rightful place behind the keyboards. Sedeck, the younger brother of Wyclef Jean immediately clarified that his similarities to the elder Jean were a lot more than skin deep.

Hammering out a Beethoven-inspired riff on the boards and then trading hip-hop bars with his DJ 'Fingers', Sedeck warmed up the intimate crowd before introducing them to yet another Jean sibling. As his petite younger sister Melky joined him on stage, a voice characteristic of a diva twice her size jerked the audience and kept them enraptured in her personal renditions of play and passion. The blood covenant known as MelkySedeck was sealed with a spine-tingling, head-bouncing performance from multi-instrumentalist Sedeck and the opera-trained Melky, as their fresh and flavourful jams heated up the venue.

Performing several tracks off their upcoming release Da Joint (MCA/Universal), Melky solicited a mesmerized member of the male persuasion onto the stage to show just who was wearing the "High Heel Shoes" and who was the real "Diva" in the house. Substituting the boards for his guitar, Sedeck accompanied his sis through an emotional "Mi Amor", but turned to the keys again for a fantastic finale of their first single "Raw". Clearly, from the sweat and satisfied expressions of the crowd - raw is exactly how they liked it.