Ottawa music video features viral dancing cop
By Alison Mah
First posted: Thursday, August 04, 2016 06:11 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 04, 2016 07:24 PM EDT
An Ottawa singer has released an energetic music video of a varied cast of local characters, including clips of a dancing police officer on Rideau Street that went viral last month.
Konah Raynes said he wanted to create the feel-good video — which draws together Ottawa paramedics, firefighters, the police officer, Mayor Jim Watson, and several friends, all grooving to Raynes’s cover of Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling — because he loved the song and wanted to use it to help promote the city of Ottawa.
“Everyone says Ottawa is so quiet and stuff, so we’re like, ‘Man, let’s put Ottawa on the map,’ ” said Raynes, 22, on Thursday. “We just came up with the idea to get Ottawa involved and everyone in Ottawa to have some fun in the video.”
The five-minute video showcases a medley of Ottawa characters, such as paramedics, firefighters and several of Raynes and his crew’s friends boogying down in popular Ottawa spots like the ByWard Market, National Gallery, the Corktown Bridge, SuzyQ Doughnuts and Jack Astor’s, where Raynes works as a line cook.
“The worm from the firefighter, he was feeling the music for sure,” said Raynes with a laugh.
Raynes, who is under Keshet Productions, first caught people’s attention in July when a Canada Day video of officer Tracey Turpin showing off her dance moves with videographer Yves Soglo attracted more than two million views online. Soglo was filming for Raynes’s music video, which was released Wednesday.
Raynes cultivated a passion for singing in choir practice in his native Liberia before leaving the West Africa nation with his family and moving to Ottawa when he was 10. Hard work and talent eventually landed him a contract with Keshet.
Rayens, whose YouTube page includes a handful of cover songs, said he is in the process of working on original music and hopes to release a single soon.
Konah Raynes gets into the music in a studio, in Ottawa on August 04, 2016. (Jana Chytilova, Postmedia)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrAR0na3vM
Ottawa music video features viral dancing cop | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
By Alison Mah
First posted: Thursday, August 04, 2016 06:11 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, August 04, 2016 07:24 PM EDT
An Ottawa singer has released an energetic music video of a varied cast of local characters, including clips of a dancing police officer on Rideau Street that went viral last month.
Konah Raynes said he wanted to create the feel-good video — which draws together Ottawa paramedics, firefighters, the police officer, Mayor Jim Watson, and several friends, all grooving to Raynes’s cover of Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop the Feeling — because he loved the song and wanted to use it to help promote the city of Ottawa.
“Everyone says Ottawa is so quiet and stuff, so we’re like, ‘Man, let’s put Ottawa on the map,’ ” said Raynes, 22, on Thursday. “We just came up with the idea to get Ottawa involved and everyone in Ottawa to have some fun in the video.”
The five-minute video showcases a medley of Ottawa characters, such as paramedics, firefighters and several of Raynes and his crew’s friends boogying down in popular Ottawa spots like the ByWard Market, National Gallery, the Corktown Bridge, SuzyQ Doughnuts and Jack Astor’s, where Raynes works as a line cook.
“The worm from the firefighter, he was feeling the music for sure,” said Raynes with a laugh.
Raynes, who is under Keshet Productions, first caught people’s attention in July when a Canada Day video of officer Tracey Turpin showing off her dance moves with videographer Yves Soglo attracted more than two million views online. Soglo was filming for Raynes’s music video, which was released Wednesday.
Raynes cultivated a passion for singing in choir practice in his native Liberia before leaving the West Africa nation with his family and moving to Ottawa when he was 10. Hard work and talent eventually landed him a contract with Keshet.
Rayens, whose YouTube page includes a handful of cover songs, said he is in the process of working on original music and hopes to release a single soon.
Konah Raynes gets into the music in a studio, in Ottawa on August 04, 2016. (Jana Chytilova, Postmedia)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxrAR0na3vM
Ottawa music video features viral dancing cop | Canada | News | Toronto Sun