Profile of your celebrity for your personality editorial shoot

Sahara Coal was born on the 8^th of April 1986, in Ghana, Africa. When she was at the young age of 6 years, her parents moved her to Sydney, Australia for a better education. Her parents were wealthy enough to send her to a private boarding school and it was in this environment that she found her love and passion for dance. As she was approaching her teenage years she had excelled in ballet and had  reached the limits of what the school could offer in terms of ballet dancing. As an African living and growing up in a western culture, she felt like an outsider and strove to express her individuality through dance where she could get lost in the freedom of movement.

With Sahara’s passion and love for ballet, she received a scholarship to an elite ballet school at the age of 14. She believed strongly in the idea of expressing one’s self through physical and rhythmical movement.  After years of training, this ballet academy took her to places beyond her dreams, performing in a variety of countries whilst touring the world. Through this experience her name and profile began to build and she became widely known as the ‘African ballet swan’. This passion allowed Sahara to develop a unique sense of confidence and to blossom into a vibrant, bright, exuberant and energetic young woman.

As the world tours continued Sahara’s reputation as a ballet dancer only grew bigger. However Sahara felt confined and trapped in the world of ballet and felt like there was a void in her life. Returning to Sydney after her 6-month tour around the northern hemisphere she delved into her passion for music and went from ballet dancing into DJ’ing. Sahara cleverly used the name and reputation she had built up in the ballet industry and mixed the number one hits with music from performances she had become famous for.

Sahara, now at the age of 25, has emerged as a celebrity in the world of performance art. Known amongst performance artists as the high-spirited and bright personality ballet dancer turned international DJ, she is now performing at a variety of events, ranging from the world’s most exclusive, wealthy parties in the Greek islands to fashion week in New York and most recently, as the opening act for Madonna, where she combined her DJ talents with her  ballet talent by performing to the music she had created.

For this personality editorial shoot, the character traits and career elements, discussed above, which influenced her now high celebrity status were shown through the implemented styling methods: the use of layered, bright-coloured, detailed, patterned clothing, which were formed on the body to create movement and show fluidity in the fabric, along with the poses used in this shoot that were inspired by dance. These qualities all helped to depict Sahara Coal as the celebrity she has become today.