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Chelsea An­dell is a mul­ti-tal­ent­ed per­former from Trinidad and To­ba­go, cel­e­brat­ed as a pro­fes­sion­al dancer and al­so a record­ing artiste, stage-named Sauce the Rap­per. Her pas­sion for the arts be­gan when she was two. By five, she was per­form­ing, and at 12, she be­came an in­struc­tor and even­tu­al­ly grad­u­at­ed from the New York Film Acad­e­my in Act­ing for Film.

An­dell honed some of her danc­ing skills at the Alvin Ai­ley Ex­ten­sion and, along the way, be­came for­mal­ly trained in bal­let, tap, con­tem­po­rary, hip hop, jazz, African, Afrobeat, and Cre­o­la.

She has shared stages with many in­ter­na­tion­al tal­ents and has got­ten stand­ing ova­tions and en­cores dur­ing many of her per­for­mances lo­cal­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly, in­clud­ing at the 2025 King­dom Choice Awards in New York City.

This young la­dy com­mand­ed stages at Hol­ly­wood Next Star 2017, All Dance In­ter­na­tion­al 2018, and the World Cham­pi­onships of Per­form­ing Arts award-win­ning Dance Cre­o­la Tour 2019.

An­dell’s tal­ent flows over in­to vo­cals. As Sauce the Rap­per, she re­leased her de­but sin­gle, King Kong Dance, at 16, per­formed it at na­tion­wide school tours, and guest­ed on four lo­cal ra­dio sta­tions and on lo­cal tele­vi­sion. At 17, she wrote her first gospel song, Let Your Light Shine, for a con­cert at her high school, Prov­i­dence Girls’ Catholic School.

Since then, she has re­leased mul­ti­ple sin­gles, act­ed in an ed­u­ca­tion­al se­ries, and record­ed its theme song. This year (2025), she re­leased her lat­est Chris­t­ian sin­gle, SAUCE, and has al­ready per­formed it pub­licly. An­dell is re­ferred to as a “sauce” of in­spi­ra­tion.

“In high school, a lot of peo­ple start­ed call­ing me ‘sauce’ or say­ing, ‘You got the sauce,’ and the name stuck,” de­clared An­dell. “And as I grew in­to the name and the brand, I re­alised what sauce tru­ly means. It car­ries a pow­er­ful mes­sage of faith and pur­pose.

“My acronym SAUCE (Swag Anoint­ed Un­der Christ’s Ex­pe­ri­ence) re­flect­ing how my style, per­son­al­i­ty, and life are all cen­tred on Christ. The song speaks about ful­ly trust­ing the Lord to lead, guid­ing my foot­steps, and sur­ren­der­ing 100 per cent of my plans to Je­sus. Through the lyrics, I ex­press the beau­ty and sweet­ness of walk­ing in pur­pose–not for self-glo­ry, but to please God and give Him all the ho­n­our.”

The sis­ter of Chris­ton An­dell and daugh­ter of dance stu­dio and artis­tic di­rec­tor Can­dice Clarke is record­ed as be­ing pas­sion­ate and pur­pose-dri­ven and us­es both dance and mu­sic not on­ly to share her artistry and in­spire au­di­ences but, above all, to glo­ri­fy God and as a guide for heal­ing.

An­dell said she us­es six pil­lars through dance to in­spire pri­mar­i­ly young girls and women, but peo­ple in gen­er­al: joy, con­nec­tion, in­di­vid­u­al­i­ty, mu­sic, en­vi­ron­ment, and per­spec­tive.

She touched on some of the strug­gles she faced. “Most of the strug­gles I’ve faced have been in­ter­nal. It can feel hard or lone­ly when you don’t feel sup­port­ed by peo­ple close to you, and that can lead to peo­ple-pleas­ing, doubt, in­se­cu­ri­ty, and even ques­tion­ing your pur­pose or gift. On this jour­ney of be­com­ing my own per­son and brand–mak­ing my own choic­es and de­ci­sions–I al­ways re­mem­ber that the main goal is to gain val­i­da­tion from God, not from peo­ple.”

An­dell draws up­on the scrip­ture in Gala­tians 1:10 and ex­am­ines what it took for her to be­come a be­liev­er in God.

She said it was psy­cho­log­i­cal­ly dif­fi­cult to let go of cer­tain mu­sic or re­frain from cer­tain class­es that didn’t align with her faith, but she is cur­rent­ly in a place where she bare­ly re­mem­bers how hard that used to be.

An­dell is con­sid­ered a Jill of all trades. Be­yond danc­ing and singing, she’s a pho­tog­ra­ph­er, video­g­ra­ph­er, ac­tor, and mul­ti-in­stru­men­tal­ist. Oth­er ac­tiv­i­ties in­clude rollerblad­ing, ice skat­ing, aer­i­al silks, stilt walk­ing, car­ing for her dog, fit­ness, watch­ing movies, go­ing to church, read­ing, evan­ge­lism, and cook­ing.

An­dell said re­gard­ing cook­ing, she’s very par­tic­u­lar where nu­tri­tion and health are con­cerned.

The in­ter­na­tion­al dance acad­e­my co-di­rec­tor re­flect­ed on In­ter­na­tion­al Breast Can­cer Month and dived in­to how dance and God as nu­tri­tion can help.

“A young dancer’s view of­ten com­bines care for the hu­man body, re­spect for re­silience, and the be­lief that dance can be a tool for aware­ness and heal­ing. As a young dancer, I see breast can­cer as a re­minder of how pre­cious our bod­ies are. Dance teach­es me to ex­press strength, grace, and re­silience, and I be­lieve sur­vivors show those same qual­i­ties in their jour­ney.

“Through every step and move­ment, I dance in ho­n­our of those fight­ing, those sur­viv­ing, and those we re­mem­ber, hop­ing to in­spire courage and hope.”

An­dell ded­i­cates her tune “Let Your Light Shine” to breast can­cer pa­tients, sur­vivors, and those who are scared. It’s about us­ing your gifts, tal­ents, per­son­al­i­ty, and every part of your life to re­flect the unique­ness and good­ness God placed in you–His light with­in you–which you re­veal in your every­day life to bring glo­ry to God (from Matthew 5:16).