Project Fame set to roll
The heat is already on as three representatives from Ghana join contestants from other audition centres across West Africa this weekend in Lagos, Nigeria, for the final selection of contestants for this year’s Project Fame competition.
The Ghanaian contestants are Becky Oki and Clement Okuako who were selected from auditions held in Accra and Rahel Halindu Yakubu from Kumasi.
They would be competing with other 33 selected participants from Nigeria, Liberia and Sierra Leone for the first stage of selection.
If the Ghanaian participants put up a good show for the first stage, they would be part of the 24 participants that would be selected for the next stage. However, the final number of contestants that will be selected to be at the MTN PF Academy house will be at the discretion of the judges.
The first show is expected to be held on Saturday, July 9.
The contestants will battle it out for 10 weeks with eviction at the end of each week’s show.
This year’s winner will take home a prize package of a 2014 SUV, a recording contract and a $25, 000 cash prize.
In its seventh year, the music talent hunt has proved to be one of the most successful music talent discovery show in West Africa bringing to the world of music great artistes like Iyanya and Chidinma from Nigeria and Ghana’s Kesse.
Inyanya has won many awards including Artiste of the Year at the Headies, Nigeria’s biggest entertainment event in 2013.
Chidinma won a KORA Award in 2012 and Kesse won the Best Male Vocalist Award at the 2011 Ghana Music Awards.
Since its inception, the MTN Project Fame has been a close race between Ghana and Nigeria. In 2008 when the first show was held, Nii Ankara aka Nii Soul from Ghana placed second in a closely contested game with Iyanya who emerged the show’s maiden winner.
Two years later in 2010, the show would provide another rivalry between Ghana and Nigeria when Nigeria’s Chidinma beat Ghana’s Kesse to win the title.
