Excitement is in the air at the federal
capital, Abuja and one of the nation’s historical and cultural kingdoms, Benin,
as the MTN Project Fame West Africa Season 6 holds its auditions in the two
cities today. Read more
The auditions which take place
simultaneously at the National Centre for Women Development, Abuja, and
Constantial Hotel in Benin, have been scheduled to discover the next set
of musical talents in Nigeria which
the MTN Project Fame West Africa is known for.
It is on record that in under just five
years, the musical reality show has produced musical stars, who not only
performed brilliantly at the Academy, but have gone ahead to become household
names in Africa and beyond. Notable among these big names are the Kukere
crooner, Iyanya, Chidinma, Praize, Kesse in Ghana, and Musulyn in Liberia.
These superstars have garnered personal accolades and awards in recognition of
their extraordinary musical performances. The awards include: Headies, West
Africa’s biggest music award and KORA, the continent’s biggest musical
recognition award, won by Iyanya and Chidinma, respectively.
Tunji Adebakin, the Director of the Musical
Academy, put the super-stardom of attained by these musical talents in proper
perspective. According to him, MTN Project Fame West Africa is not just about
the monetary rewards, it’s about the music lessons that the contestants
received, coupled with the exposure to highly-rated musical directors,
musicians and the extraordinary ‘can-do spirit’ of MTN to make sure each of its
project impacts lives’.
He noted that ‘all these account for the
rise of most of MTN Project Fame’s academy graduates, after the show’.
The MTN Project Fame is structured to
discover and nurture the sub-region’s youths who are talented in music. Kola
Oyeyemi, the General Manager, Consumer Marketing, MTN, affirms concerning the
youths: ‘Music correctly taps into their passion points, hence, the need to
provide them with world-class cutting edge music property that meets the needs
and aspirations of this dynamic segment’.
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