by: Jud Benjamin
Jud: The name “Bad Gyal” is said to be your self proclamation. How did you came up with such an alias and does this mean that you are an uptown girl or a ghetto girl?
Ce’Cile: I think the name Badgyal has been wildly used since I’ve began using it as my alter ego. The name for me signifies another “persona” than the real CeCile and for me this was my on stage “being.” It simply meant the person I became when I took the Stage (sassy and saucy, maybe a lil naughty, pro feminine) wasn’t a class thing neither was it a bad gyal who will get physical or anything like that. I don’t consider myself ghetto, in any definition of the word. I’m not sure what up town is. I’m a classy badgyal!
Jud: I understand you have a life’s motto.
Ce’Cile: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Jud: Why do you put so much faith in this motto of yours?
Ce’Cile: Because if you don’t put yourself in other person’s shoes, anyone of us can become very destructive, after all we are only humans and susceptible to human ways and sins (jealousy, deceptive, devious, physical and verbally abusive etc). Continue reading Interview with Ce’Cile (Bad Gyal)
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