The biggest music talent show to ever hit Nigerian television ‘Centage Superstar’ is here!!!
The reality television show which is themed around the search for a fresh Nigerian music superstar who will represent the Nigerian music scene and Nigeria as a whole inside and outside the country is being put together by Centage Savings and Loans Limited (Mortgage bankers) with Kennis music, Nigeria’s foremost music label.
The finance bank whose strong point includes a dynamic board comprising some Ex- Directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria has teamed up with Kennis music to discover the best artiste in the country through a chain of nation- wide auditions. The eventual winner is expected to go home with a brand new Toyota Prado Jeep worth 7 million Naira, 2 million naira cash and a 10 million naira deal with Nigeria’s leading and most influential record label.
This is not the first time Kennis music will be involved in nurturing emerging winners from talent hunts. Since Star quest debuted in 2002, the record label has consistently been involved one way or the other with the winners of the show. They have signed, released and promoted winners including KC Presh, Diamondz and The Pulse.
‘What can we say, our interest is making the Nigerian music industry boom, so when the responsibility is vested on us to see to it that we groom and nurture new acts, it actually means that we are recognized in and outside the industry as one a pathfinder and credible actor in the Nigerian music scene; Kenny Ogungbe says.
Kennis music founded by Kenny Ogungbe is Africa’s number one record label. The record label has since inception signed acts like The Remedies, KSB, Lagbaja, OJB, 2face, Marvelous Benjy, Azadus, Sound Sultan, Baba Dee to mention a few.
The basic objective of the Centage superstar is to discover and promote young music Nigerian superstars. Every winner that emerges from each region goes back home with One million Naira, and an opportunity to represent his/her region in the grand finale in March 2010.
The second prize is a Toyota Corolla and One Million Naira, while the third position goes home with Five hundred thousand Naira and a yet-to-be announced consolation prize. ‘It is the first time in the history of Nigeria that this will be happening’ the organizers told news men in Lagos on Friday.
Also at stake for the contestants and member of the public is a house located in Abuja.
Meanwhile, the official launch for the show held on Friday, June 12, 2008 at the Civic centre, and the forms have started selling at all UBA, Intercontental and Centage branches across the country for three thousand five hundred naira.
The launch event which was hosted by Basorge Tariah Junior was attended by the Crème-de-la- crème of Nigerian Entertainment industry including Stephanie Okereke, Susan Peters, Nneka Obi, Moji Dopesi, Kenny St. Brown and Weird MC. Others include; rapper Kel, DJ Zeez, Sound Sultan, D banj, Jesse Jags, Wande Coal and many others
Artistes like DJ Zeez, Weird MC, Diamondz, The Pulse, Yemi Sax and Dbanj thrilled fans with their various hits. The highest point of the show was the unveiling of the Centage Superstar after which Entertainer D banj mounted the stage and serenaded fans with hit songs from ‘Tongolo’ all the way to ‘Igwe’. He was not alone as new kid on the block Wande Coal also dished out hit singles from his debut album ‘M2M’.
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