SADE “Sadaeya” Edwards’s personality is very bubbly, positive and outgoing.

It’s no surprise that the Quarry Village, Siparia, native hopes her music can similarly impact people.

She wants the messages in her music to be “heard, understood and received in a positive way.”

Her latest single titled Win addresses conquering life despite its challenges, which is what she also plans to do with her music career.

Edwards, 25, has always been dramatic.

She laughed as she recalled “stressing out” her grandmother by putting on full productions in their gallery.

“I loved singing, making up songs and just doing dramatic skits at home,” she told Sunday Newsday during an interview on February 25.

“I used to break my grandmother’s (Beulah Coar’s) plants and use them as dollies in the skits.”

Laughing, she added, “Keep in mind, I had toys. I don’t know why I used to do that madness.”

She said she would also “bang up” Crix pans to make beats, and put on sunglasses to perform.

“My father (Marlon Edwards) also had a camera phone and I would record myself doing these things. He would laugh a lot.

“So I was a dramatic child. But the very first time I touched the stage was actually with (folk) dance when I was around five or six…And the second time was actually singing calypso at Envirofest in Siparia.”

Her mother, Sherma “Shy” Coar, also sang Calypso, most known for her song Eyes of A Madman.

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“Sometimes I would go to studio sessions with her as well.”

Already having a singer in the family, her talent was further nurtured at Fyzabad Anglican Secondary School by choir director and dance teacher Judy Boatswain.

“I would be hearing (singers) harmonising and picking up on the harmonies, and I was able to do it too. I had no formal training or anything, but I was getting it. It just came naturally since then.

“Even when I did music (as a subject) in school, I was not a boss at theory but I would always mash up practicals.”

Through this, she performed at competitions such as Sanfest and special programmes at the school.

But the love she had for skits had continued too.

Her mother told her she could try theatre arts and she immediately agreed.

“I had a really cool teacher, Ms Hamilton.

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“I remember one of the classes she taught us about focusing as actors. So she did this kind of thing where she said, ‘I’m going to do a bunch of funny and weird things and I need you guys to maintain concentration.’ She did all sorts of things and I did not laugh, then after, she told me, ‘You know, you could be an actor. You could do this.’”

Those words stuck with her as she did a bachelor’s degree in fine arts with a focus on acting at UTT.

“Those were the best four years of my life. I learned a lot and gained a lot of experience. One was being able to fly to Houston and placing second in the world for Brave New Voices