Inter-college competition won by gospel duo

LONDON BASED R&B/rap gospel duo Danny B & Natasha were the surprise winners of the Inter College Singing Competition in May. The Competition, run by Sing And Deliver and one of the most prestigious of its^kind, attracts upwards of 40 colleges and finals, held on 21 July at Afro Caribbean Centre were before a huge audience of 7,000 people. The blue-eyed duo, the son and daughter of New Zealand pastors and church planters John and Molly Bedingfield, sang a self-composed song "I'm Gonna Do It Right Girl" on the theme of the need for sexual abstinence before marriage. Said 16 year old Danny B, "The words of our song are about honouring your partner's body because it belongs to God, sex being more precious if it is kept 'til after marriage. Earlier in the finals there had been groups wearing just bras and knickers and artists singing blatantly immoral songs. Yet purity won! It was quite astounding that we were the winners; we'd actually made a couple of mistakes! I think the judges must have seen the dude behind us - God."