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Volume 11, Issue 5
April 21, 2017
Newman to anthony
Four-year athlete turns to music for self-expression
Nicholas Hom | The Roundtable
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Owen Fahy
Editor-in-Chief
itting on the yellow First Student bus that shuttles Convent & Stuart Hall students between campuses, Jaden Newman looked out the window and the words “She a model” came into his head. Using Garageband and a microphone in his bedroom, Newman turned the three words into a song that has been played over 2500 times on SoundCloud. Better known for his athletic prowess, Newman is a four-year varsity basketball player as well as a two-year varsity baseball athlete. But Newman’s mind is always on his music. “I’ve always been singing, but I didn’t really start to do anything with it until Malik [Hale] told me [to pursue music],” Newman said. “Zeke [Crawford] had been telling me since freshman year, but I didn’t really listen to him because I am not very outgoing.”
Lookout | Jaden Newman ’17 looks over the courtyard at Stuart Hall High School early on a March morning. Newman has recently begun to release music online and is seeing increasing success.
Malik Hale ’16, known as D’angelo King on SoundCloud, and Zeke Crawford ’16 are a year older than Newman, but are good friends as they all played basketball together. “I told him to [start making music] because I saw how passionate he was about it,” Crawford said. “It’s like telling a fish to swim — I just saw he needed that push to follow his dreams and I gave it to him.” Known as Jaden Anthony on Soundcloud where he distributes his music for free, Newman uses his middle name in place of his surname. Newman hopes to increase his 11,000 Soundcloud plays by collaborating with other high school rappers like Dame Dinero, a rapper who attends St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Dinero owns one of the most popular songs made by a San Francisco high schooler in recent memory with 12,000 plays on his hit song on n Jaden Newman continues on 6
Students build businesses
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Nicholas Hom
Associate Editor-in-Chief
hile some students are preparing ideas to win this year’s annual, four-division, $2,500 Launch Grant, some students have gotten ahead of the curve and begun their own companies
in hopes to use grant money to further their companies’ growth. Visual Fanatic, a company started by student body president Michael Tellini ‘17 and run by a group of eight Stuart Hall High School students spanning all n Entrepreneurship continue on 2
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Helping hands | Students in Action members Chris Potter ’17 and Jake Ngu ’17 drop off Easter baskets at St. Francis Xavier Church last Friday. Advisories collected items for the baskets and delivered them to deaf members of the St. Francis Xavier Church community every April. A similar food basket drive happens during Thanksgiving.
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