FlyChica Productions, a costume jewelry manufacturing company, was recently able to present funk
legends, Galt MacDermot, the composer best known for the revolutionary Broadway musical, “Hair”, drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie and bassist Wilbur “Bad” Bascomb with Nameplate Rosaries at Ultimate Breaks and Beats 2, which was held at 328 Performance Hall in Nashville, Tennessee on April 8th, 2000.
MacDermont, Purdie and Bascomb were both suprised and happy to receive the rosaries that sported themes related to their long standing careers. Not only did these three funk legends receive Nameplate Rosaries but so did several other famous music artists. These included DJ ShortKut, of the world famous Invislbl Skratch Piklz, Peanut Butter Wolf of Stones Throw Records, Mr. Dibbs of the 1200 Hobos Crew, DJ Signify, Breakestra, John Doe, Count Bass
D and DJ Egon.
Over the past 3 years, Nameplate Rosaries have been presented to several famous music artists including
the world famous Beatnuts, Hip Hop Producer Vic Padilla (Terror Squad/Ghetto Professionals), 1999 DMC Scribble Jam Champion DJ Precyse, Atlanta’s finest Mitchell Street Crew, Mass Influence, Esoteric, Virtuoso, MadLb, Xzibit, MC Wildchild and the Bay Area’s up and coming rap artists, the Lootpack. Besides rap music artists, nameplate rosaries are also being represented by 88HipHop.com,Todos.com, Chicago-Fashion.com and soon Hoodz and Headz Softwearz.
What is a Nameplate Rosary? These one of a kind creations are made exactly as traditional Roman
Catholic rosaries except they come with a twist. Custom slogans such as “Only God Knows Why”, “Peace In The Hood” and “Be True To Your Style” are spelled out and placed in the center. Nicknames have become very popular and these are spelled out on the back.
Christy Lee, founder of FlyChica Productions, originally started making these rosaries as gifts. With so many people asking where to purchase these unique pieces of jewelry, she put a price on them and went after stores for distribution. She sells her creations at hip hop events, to regular customers on an established vending route and
through her website at http://fly.to/flychica.
The company is also proud to announce the grand opening of a new store at the Farmers Market. Nameplate Rosaries may also be purchased at New Life
Records, The College Crib, Be
True To Your Style Barber Shop and Down South Lowriders, all locations in Nashville, Tennessee. They
will also soon be available at TheScenes.com, an off-line urban store in Miami, Forida.
Recently FlyChica Productions has been featured in The Arizona Republic and Fashion Chicago. More interviews and articles are in the agenda.
Over the past 3 years, more than 5,000 custom names, nicknames and themes went on to Nameplate Rosaries.
What once was an underground fashion trend is growing and expanding into an urban fashion explosion.
With it’s headquarters located in Nashville, Tennessee, FlyChica Productions goal remains to seek more distribution in stores and malls, both national and international.
