Today we’d like to introduce you to Jasmine “JB” Badie
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Wow how it started! Where do I even begin! Well I moved to LA officially in 2013, not knowing what was going to happen or what life looked like after divorce and dropping out of college lol. I think my love for music and movement started at a young age. Growing up around influences like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, all of Mowtown, Earth Wind and Fire, Prince, I mean everyone you can think of, I was listening to it. And still do to this day. As I got older, my love for different sounds nourished and being able to literally see movement to these different cadences became an obsession. Then falling in love with how some of my favorite Creatives and movers would show how they too see and feel that same love for music and movement and being able to visually see how they expressed it was mind blowing. Watching people like Gil, Luther Brown, Rhapsody James, Laurianne Gibson, Jamaica, Kevin Maher, Chonique and Lissette, Brian Friedman, Swoop, AJ, Pippin Pete, I mean the list can go ONNNN, the influence was so present and the knowledge was endless. I can’t say how greatful I am to know these people and to always feel that appreciation toward them. I knew that moving to LA was where I wanted to be. Growing up with JaQuel Knight, and Sean Bankhead, and constantly being surrounded by like minded people I could learn from was the icing on the cake. That’s my family! But I remember the day I decided to stay in LA, and my first major major job I was considered for and ended up getting was Beyonce’s 1st Super Bowl, I knew that this was where I needed to be and however or whatever that journey looked like, I was for the ride. Whatever it looked like. No matter what, I was open and ready. Forever a student, always learning, while also acknowledging where I am and how much I have grown. I will forever thank that little girl who got me here. always.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
A smooth road is hilarious! LOL! I definitely can’t say it has been a smooth road, but I 100 percent believe that if it were smooth, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Not to say that all progress or success comes from struggle or bumpy roads. I believe that anything you want to achieve does begin with a challenge and hard moments. But I think how you receive the lessons from those hard times really will dictate how challenging those next steps will be moving forward toward the success you want. I don’t think how hard you fall is the issue on that road, I think it’s how hard you allow that fall to affect you. And how long you stay in that fall or that hard time. I think the true test is in how you panic before the blessing. Your approach to that challenge. Are you allowing a distraction to take what you know in your heart to be true? or are you focused on your focus, and letting those things fall by the waist side? Because face it, yes, we are going to forever be challenged and faced with things that will make us want to give up and feel discouraged, and confuse us. But staying aligned with what you know to be true in your heart and in your spirit, I feel is the best way to overcome the things that are simply just a distraction. It’s a fixed fight and I believe we are sitting on all the supply already. I went through probably every single thing you can think of that could have had me in an entire different place and space. I could be dead lol! Even things that were self sabotaging like insecurities, and lack of self validation. There were moments where I wanted to be a dancer so bad on a major tour living that dream all dancers and performers come to LA and hope to obtain, so much to the point where I often didn’t even see what was a natural talent. In this case, it was creating. Sometimes those things we strive soo hard to gain is not necessarily what the promise and purpose is for us. I feel that on that journey to getting what it is that you want to bad, its smart to pay attention to where your true assets and talents are and where that journey can actually take you. I was so wrapped up in wanting to dance for Beyonce that I didn’t realize that what she wanted from me was me! And that journey I had trying to get that opportunity to dance for her and other artist brought me to realize that I am a creator. I am a star. I have a light. It showed me that I was actually limiting myself to one thing when my light was in so much more. I can sit here and talk about every single thing that “could have” taken me down, and trust I remember everythinggg lol! But id rather sit here and encourage others from a testimony that I live by every single day. Dreams do come true! So much to the point where you will have to start dreaming new dreams! All of Gods Glory is on the other side of fear, so I encourage you to leap! just jump!
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
Current Choreographer for Sabrina Carpenter
Co Choreographed for Beyonce, Megan The Stallion, Tate Mcrae, Victoria Monae, Cardi B, Pharrell, NERD
How do you think about luck?
I honestly think that luck is really a just another word for blessing. I feel that the biggest blessing I have had that has truly played a role in life, not work, is really my family and my closest friends. I could not have asked for a better village in my life and its played the biggest role in my everyday. Work and business are things that come and go, but my family is solid and my forever.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mssjb/
