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Monday, September 2, 2013

Wizkid, KCEE, Tiwa Savage Light Up MTN Project Fame as Ghanaian Girl is fired


Five Nigerian hip-hop music superstars took out time to visit the MTN Project Fame’s academy recently. This was in a bid to encourage the contestants who are gradually moving into the final phases of their stay, on the life-transforming musical reality show. The hip-hop artistes that visited the academy were fan-favourite, Wizkid, KCEE of ‘Limpopo’, Iyanya, Tiwa Savage and Chidinma. The artistes set aside time, to instruct and model all the contestants, as competition for top position, on the musical talent-hunt show, gets intensified

Whereas the artistes made the choice of which contestant to model, through blind selections, after listening to each of them sing behind doors, none of the of the contestants was, however, left unattended to. The contestants on parade were Immaculate, Simon, Niniola, Olawale, Johnny, Jimoh, David, Margaret, Nancy, Blessing, Rowland and Omolayo.

Asked about their opinions of the show and the contestants, the artistes were specifically full of admiration for the contestants. Wizkid was thrilled, he said ‘these contestants are truly gifted and they will go places’. Asked to comment about the show, KCEE praised MTN: ‘It’s a good thing MTN is giving these talented youths an opportunity to learn and get better, such that they can fulfill their dreams for music-superstardom’.

Subsequently, the show witnessed a twist after the five Nigerian mega-stars visited the academy. At the Nomination show that followed, all the 12 contestants, in the academy, were placed on probation. The judges comprising Bibie Brew, Ade Bantu and music producer extraordinaire, TY-Mix, noted that all the contestants performed below expectation. According to them,’ the stage is high at this level of the competition and all contestants are expected to raise their performances’.

However, last weekend, after collating viewers’ votes, for all the contestants, the five contestants with the least number of votes were placed on probation. These five contestants were Johnny, Blessing, Jimoh, Nancy and David.

Knowing two contestants would have to leave the show, that evening, the contestants gave their best when allowed to re-do the songs that brought got them into probation, the previous week.

They were all most thrilling and enchanting. But Blessing who sang ‘Irreplaceable’, originally sang by Beyonce, and Jimoh who rendered Elton John’s ‘Sacrifice’, in addition to the Ghanaian David who did ‘Close to You’ were outstanding. Therefore, the Faculty, led by ‘Mum’ Joke Silva, the principal, saved Jimoh and David was saved from elimination by the panel of judges. Blessing left it late to get back into the academy. She was preferred by the contestants who were not on probation.

Consequently, Nancy and Johnny were evicted from the MTN Project Fame West Africa season 6 music academy. Nancy, who hails from Ghana, only had a brief stay in the academy. She showed a glimmer of talents, though, but had a limited time to make an impression, after beating her fellow youtube entrants, to make a Wild-Card entry into the academy. Johnny had had the good luck of being saved from eviction twice by his fellow contestants. This time, the gifted pianist, couldn’t get the needed votes from his co-contestants. It was, of course, the end of the road for the two great singers. They later shared a memorable evening with their fans and family at Road Runners Nite Club, in Akoka.

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