Published: Friday, 2nd October, 2009 8:00am

Hip-hop night to honour Andreia

by Rose Harland

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AN ASPIRING music video director who was killed while training for a charity bike ride will be remembered at a competition for up-and-coming musicians.

Andreia Alves Pinto, pictured, was training for the Palace to Palace sponsored cycle ride when she was involved in a collision with a car in Windsor Great Park on Thursday, September 10.

Prior to her death the 25-year-old from Ascot had been filming young musicians taking part in the King of the Mic 2009 contest and Andreia's friends and family will honour her memory at the competition's showdown on Friday, October 16.

Andreia's friend, and King of the Mic organiser, Sanjay Limbachya said: "Andreia was a really fun, out-going person, that might sound like a cliche but in her case it was so true.

"We still have to keep on with the competition, she was so involved with King of the Mic and she was really looking forward to it. She wouldn't have wanted us to stop and this will be a very positive way to remember her."

Videos created by and featuring Andreia will be shown at King of the Mic, a search for Berkshire and Surrey's brightest new hip hop star, and all proceeds from the evening will be donated to a charity chosen by her mum Elizete.

Andreia had been eager to carve out a career in the music industry and was behind the camera for music collective Raw Linx's video Back to 99, which featured in the News in January. She was also due to start work on the music video for singer-songwriter Hamish Meaney.

Sanjay said: "She always worked so hard and she did a brilliant job with Back to 99, we were all so pleased with it.

"She'd been filming the Street Team footage for King of the Mic the weekend before she died and she actually gave me the footage on the day she passed away, she left it on the table when she went for her bike ride."

Following Andreia's funeral at Easthampstead Park Cemetery and Crematorium on Friday, family and friends attended a wake at Jagz in Ascot - where the King of the Mic final will take place.

Sanjay, who first met Andreia when they were both pupils at Charters School, said: "Although we were all so sad it was actually a really good day, Hamish played at the wake and we all ended up doing the conga. Andreia would have loved it and it was a very fitting way to say goodbye."

* For more details about the King of the Mic contest go to www.rawlinx.co.uk