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Rising Star Dance & Show Entertainers
Seven-piece San Diego cover band with live horns, harmonies, dancers, and nonstop party-club hits
Bio
Rising Star Dance & Show Entertainers is a 7-member cover band from San Diego playing popular party and club hits from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and today. Their show includes live horns, 4-part harmonies, and a non-stop, high-energy choreographed performance. The group also uses 3 professional choreographer/dancers on stage to hype the show.
The band traces back to 1980, when it performed as Cycles, and changed to the Rising Star name in 1987. Original member Efren E. Sicat handles vocals, keys, and trumpet, and started with the band as a keyboard player doubling on trumpet.
Edwin Sicat, also an original member, serves as musical director and performs on keyboards, guitar, trumpet, trombone, flute, and vocals. Jose Del Rosario handles vocals and trombone and has been with Rising Star Entertainers for 28 years. Since 1976, he has performed professionally four to six shows a week for approximately 42 to 48 weeks a year, touring the Southwest US and occasionally the Far East, and has worked on keyboards and show arrangement programming.
Leroy Payton, from Oceanside, California, performs lead vocals and saxophone. He played the San Diego scene since the 80s with the group Forward Motion and joined Rising Star in the early 90s. Rodney Jones is the band’s drummer and began playing at age 4, later performing in church and with local groups from age 16. Alicia Hennis provides vocals and has sung since childhood; she is also a classical pianist who taught herself at age 5 and grew up around music and the arts.
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Representative setlist
Songs this act can bring to stage
- 01Party Rock - LMFAO
- 02Blurred lines - Robin Thicke
- 03Lets Groove - Earth Wind & Fire
- 04Treasure - Bruno Mars
- 05Oppa Gangnam Style - Psy
- 06Crazy in love - Beyonce
- 07Yeah yeah - Usher
- 08Boom boom pow - Black eyed peas
- 09Thriller - Michael Jackson
- 10On the floor - Jennifer Lopez
- 11I got a feeling - Black eyed peas
- 12Get down on it - Kool N the gang
- 13Wobby line Dance - V.I.C
- 14Holiday - Madonna
- 15Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
- 16Good Feeling - Flo Rida
- 17Flashlight - Parliament
- 18September - Earth Wind & Fire
- 19Get Low to the Window - Lil Jon and the Eastside Boys
- 20Push it - Salt n Pepper
- 21It take 2 - Rob Base
- 22Cupid shuffle - Cupid
- 23Word up - Cameo
- 24Don't stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
- 25Let's Go - Calvin Harris and Pitbull
- 26Where Have You been - Rihanna
- 27Get lucky - Daft punk
- 28Take on me - Aha
- 29This is how we do it - Montel Jordan
- 30Step in the name of love - R Kelly
- 31Electric slide & the Hustle - Line dances
- 32Just like heaven - The Cure
- 33California love - Tupac
- 34In da club - 50cent
- 35and many more 70's, 80's 90's and today current hits