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Jeffrey Daniels and the Triumph team<\/p>\nIn honor of Black History Month, sophomore Jeffrey Daniels, better known as Jet Just Landed, set out to create a concert that celebrates and elevates Black voices to honor Black excellence.\u00a0The show features a collection of songs that pay tribute to various musical legends, with four acts, each representing a different emotion, and is inspired by Kendrick Lamar\u2019s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy goal with this show is not to denounce or separate anybody,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cI want everybody to feel that they can identify with the show when they see it in whatever way they can. Whether you\u2019re black or not, you can identify with what\u2019s happening in this show. You can identify with what the message is, and that\u2019s the biggest goal. That\u2019s what Triumph stands for.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The whole production has taken over a year and a half to come together. The idea came to Daniels long ago when he first started to feel that he and other students like himself didn\u2019t have many spaces on campus.\u00a0Part of the delay and the main issue Triumph faced was the inability to secure rehearsal space, but in September of 2025, they decided to start dance rehearsals in parking garages around campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody is putting in work, like we\u2019ve been trying our hardest. I mean, working in 45-degree conditions in a parking garage because people wouldn\u2019t respond to emails for rehearsal space and refused to give us rehearsal space,\u201d said Daniels.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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After months of trying, the FGCU Sigma Lambda Beta Fraternity helped the Triumph team make this possible. The Betas have been supporting, advocating, advertising and investing in the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMarch of last year, after maybe six months, I was already through two different teams of people that I had worked with that just weren\u2019t willing to push the last straw. They just weren\u2019t interested,\u201d said Daniels. \u201cI met with Kevin, who is the president of the beta fraternity, and instantly they were very inclined to help. Even with the limited resources that his multicultural organization has, they pushed through.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniels attributes much gratitude to Kevin Roblejo, president of the Beta Fraternity, for advocating and believing in his mission. The Triumph team continues to persevere in spite of the barriers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Daniels and the Triumph team<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been to predominantly white institutions. I only went to one school that was primarily black. So I\u2019ve always had to position myself and make sure that I\u2019m still identifying with what I am and not trying to move like somebody else,\u201d said Daniels. <\/p>\n
The entire Triumph team is dedicated to creating a showstopping performance that informs the audience but also helps minorities on campus feel recognized. Some of the dancers in the show have felt that there wasn\u2019t a place for them to be creative on campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Freshman and performer, Faith- Victoria Justima, didn\u2019t feel that there was space on campus for her to perform before Triumph.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI personally did not see any other opportunities other than this cheerleading squad that would pop up every now and then. I know there are Eaglettes on campus, but there\u2019s not something that has as much diversity as Triumph,\u201d said Justima\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another dancer, sophomore Zoe Coecorderoramirez, also finds comfort in the inclusion and diversity that the Triumph group has created.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like our community specifically is very small, and Triumph is one step to bringing it closer together, especially with creatives. It shines a light. Like, \u2018hey, we\u2019re here,\u2019\u201d said Coecorderoramirez.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniels hopes Triumph will be the first of many black history events on campus, and that events like these will become recurring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy main goal for this event is to get it in wider spaces and bigger spaces, and make more noise with this so it attracts more diverse communities and minority groups to want to come to this school and be creative,\u201d said Daniels.<\/p>\n
The concert is on Feb. 13 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Veteran\u2019s Pavillion on Library Lawn. The event is free for all attending. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In honor of Black History Month, sophomore Jeffrey Daniels, better known as Jet Just Landed, set out to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-153222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}