CHRIS BACKLEY/Daily Bruin Richey Lam performs
his original song "Love Me for Free".
By Suneal Kolluri
Daily Bruin Contributor Friday, around 6 p.m., students began to
line up along the hill by the Los Angeles Tennis Center. Two hours
later, that hill came alive with the sound of music. That night,
thousands of UCLA students, alumni and faculty came to the LATC to
watch Spring Sing, UCLA’s long standing musical tradition.
The categories in this year’s performances included A
Cappella, Band, Exhibition, Solo/Duet and Production. Exhibitions
opened and closed the show. A group called Throb opened the event
with a fast-paced dance performance while the LASA Salsa Troupe
closed out Spring Sing. Four bands performed at the event. B-Team,
Risk Factor, Max the Cat, and Stereotype each entertained the crowd
with their diverse styles. The Production category consisted of
fraternities and sororities putting on mini-musicals about the
greatness of UCLA and the inferiority of rival USC. A Cappella
groups included last year’s and this year’s winner,
Awaken A Cappella, performing “Under Pressure.” The
other A Cappella acts included Bassline, singing “Love Will
Keep Us Alive,” and Random Voices, performing
“It’s Raining Men.” The performers in the
Solo/Duet category, however, received the majority of the
crowd’s cheers and many of the awards in the show. A big-band
style duet performance by Chris Cheng and Julie DeLiema won them
the Grand Sweepstakes Award and entertained the crowd with
“They Can’t Take That Away From Me,” a song by
George and Ira Gershwin. A performance by third-year Richey Lam
drew some of the loudest cheers from the audience. He opened his
act claiming that his song was the reason all girls should want him
and then went on to sing the song he wrote called “Love Me
For Free.” Third-year Tesz Milan sang a song she wrote called
“Catch Me If You Can” and won The Judge’s Special
Award for honorable mention. Other performers in the category
included John Torres and Juila’s Will. Between acts the
Spring Sing Company provided entertainment for the crowd and kept
them laughing with skits, monologues and musical parodies. They
mocked everything from chain e-mails to flyers on Bruin Walk and
performed a hugely successful parody of the Red Hot Chili
Pepper’s “Californication,” called “My UCLA
Education.” The energetic, diverse acts of Spring Sing 2001
proved once again that UCLA students can put on a show like no
other.
 RAYLEEN HSU Awaken A Capella prformers show their stuff
in "Under Pressure".
 MIKE CHIEN Soloist Tesz Millan gives an
exciting performance of her song "Catch Me if You Can".
 MIKE CHIEN Chris Cheng and Julie
DeLiema receive their award from SAA Executive Director
Albert Gonzalez.
 RAYLEEN HSU Members from Alpha Phi and Theta Chi dress as
USC students in their production, titled "MI:3".
 MIKE CHIEN Spectators and performers meet on stage after
the performance.