Wild Things
24-year-old Andrea Lewis, who starred in Degrassi, has been lyrically inclined in her music as well as film and television. With her multifaceted journalist buddy 24-year-old Shannon Boodram alongside, these girls are wild.
Lewis got her start acting alongside Alfre Woodard and Wesley Snipes in the critically acclaimed drama, Down in the Delta. She went on to score roles in other TV films, including the Natalie Cole biopic and Disney’s Cadet Kelly. After leaving Degrassi The Next Generation, she got a role in another Canadian series, Moccasin Flats, as a soul singer. It was in that show that Lewis got to feature songs from her album, Float Away.
Float Away was released in September 2005 exclusively in Canada. The album, as well as her style, features a mixture of pop and R&B, with a twist of old school, soul and sass. Lewis co-wrote the songs on the album and has soulfully sassified covers of popular songs such as Aretha Franklin’s “Until You Come Back to Me,“ Linkin Park’s “Numb” and “Best I Ever Had,“ by Degrassi alum and fellow musician, Drake. Her video, “Superwoman,“ aired on MTV, MuchMusic and earned a Best Indie Video nomination for the Canadian Music Awards. According to a Hollywood Poned interview, Lewis is back in the studio working on some new music and has started writing her own projects for film and television. If Lewis is not busy working on new music, writing lyrics and scripts for film and TV, acting in the Broadway hit, Dreamgirls, spending quality time with underprivileged youth, or shoveling snow, she’s running wild!
Lewis and her best friend started the blog, Thosegirlsarewild.com. While Lewis gives her fans highlights of her ventures as a performing arts diva, her equally talented bestie, Shannon Boodram is doing the same in the literary and media arts realm. Boodram is a journalist, writer, photographer, novelist, television host and sex educator who has garnered much success in a short timespan. Having won Best On-Air Personality in Canada for Rogers TV in 2009, Boodram is the host of High School Rush. In the show, she visits a new high school every week and works with the students writing and recording voice-over projects for sports highlights.
Boodram has written for a plethora of Canadian publications, such as Metro News Toronto and Urbanology, and is a freelance photographer for Desi News and J’Adore. While her preference is writing stories focusing on women and human interest stories, she has interviewed and written about various artists, such as Robin Thicke, her girl Andrea, Fefe Dobson and Deborah Cox. In October 2009, Boodram released her first non-fiction anthology, Laid: Young People’s Experiences with Sex in an Easy-Access Culture. The book is filled with raw and honest anecdotes about sexual experiences. Boodram shares her own story and has created a forum for people to talk about sex on the book’s website, Laidthebook. With additional interest and talent in html, she runs the women’s networking website, Shannonteresa.com.
Lewis has stated that family and friends alike have said that when she and Boodram collaborate, they get wild. Hence, Thosegirlsarewild was born. They may live in different parts of North America but they stay in touch with each other and their fans via the blog. When they do get together, they record, edit, and post their own videos on Youtube about current projects (like Shannon getting her book on The View and Andrea working on another album) and other random topics (like their double dating experiences). For more wild info, check out their blog and videos.
(Photos & Video Credit: of Thosegirlsarewild.com and shannonteresa.com)
