MTV Networks Africa (MTVNA) and Bharti Airtel have confirmed that they will be holding the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) in Lagos, Nigeria. MTV’s celebration of contemporary African music and creativity will be held at the EKO EXPO Hall, Lagos on 11 December 2010.
The 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel will take the form of a stunning live music event and global television spectacular, featuring performances from contemporary African and international music giants and hosted by a major music celebrity. Artists from around the continent will battle to win a coveted MAMA trophy in one of twelve award categories including: Best Male, Best Female, Best Video, Best Group, Artist of the Year, Best Lusophone Act, Best Anglophone Act, Best Francophone Act, Song of the Year, Brand: New Act, Best International Act and MAMA Legend.
Telecommunications giant Airtel comes on board as the headline sponsor of the MTV Africa Music Awards 2010, signalling the telco’s profound commitment to African music and youth culture following its purchase of Zain Africa’s business operations earlier this year. The sponsorship was announced by Andre Beyers, Chief Marketing Officer, Airtel Africa and Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa.
Commented Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa, “We are thrilled to be partnering with Airtel to bring the MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel to Lagos for the first time and look forward to delivering the most exciting MAMA yet on 11 December.”
Conceived in 2008 as the ultimate celebration of African contemporary music talent, the MTV Africa Music Awards with Airtel provides a major promotional platform for the African music industry, championing, supporting and empowering African talent by broadcasting their music around the world via MTV’s global multimedia network.
The inaugural MAMA was held at the Velodrome, Abuja in 2008, while October 2009 saw the awards move to Nairobi, Kenya.
Short Preview of Mtv Africa Music Awards 2009
STL, D'BANJ and MO HITS ALL STARS - Mtv Africa Music Awards 2009
GENEVIEVE has recently become a prop for Nigerian Artists. Previously featured by Dbanj, she is now featured again to repeat stardom safeguard of one of Nigeria's long running comedian (AY). Well i can say these moves are seriously working for her too.
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Catch a host of fantastic actors in...Ita Hozaife's classic play 'To Love A Ghost'...on Saturday, September 4th 2010 @TerraKulture. It's a full Theatre Experience!...you can watch the martinee performance @3pm for N2,500 or join Celebrities for cocktail & live music on the red-carpet performance @6pm for N5,000. Tickets available @The Hub, The Palms lekki and at @CafeLicious, 30a Opebi road, Ikeja.
The Play is a journey through the life of a young Nigerian girl child. It aims at dealing with the animal of female abuse with a comic outlook to it. The play typifies three Institutions (Political, Religious and Educational) and the part they play in the age long discussion of abuse.
It is a full Theatre Experience!...ranging from words, dance, music, drama and comedyu cannot afford to miss it.
The list of nominees of the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards has been released and there aren’t many surprises on the list. Nigerian stars MI, Sasha, D’Banj, Wande Coal, Banky W, Da Grin, 2Face, Djinee, P-Square and Naeto C picked up nominations while Newcomers such as Mo’Cheddah, Tolumide and General Pype were also recognized. Kenny St Brown received her first ever Channel O award nomination for her video with Da Grin ‘Turn Me Around’. Outside the shores of Nigeria, African stars including Nameless, Dama Do Bling, HHP, Becca, Samini and Lizha James were also nominated.
According to Yolisa Phahle, Channel Director of M-Net’s Special Interest Channels, “What’s especially pleasing this year is the reach of the nominees… It’s great to see a country like Angola make its presence felt and there is a strong showing by artists from Ghana and Kenya as well. It’s now up to the artists and fans to mobilise in order to secure votes for the music videos that they believe deserve the honour of a Channel O Music Video Award. In the end, it’s the fans who decide who walks away with the statuette.” In total, the 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards are spread across 14 categories – with five nominees in each category, except Most Gifted Video of the Year which features six nominees.
The 2010 Channel O Music Video Awards is set to take place on Thursday 4 November at the Sandton Convention Center. Voters can have their say by voting via SMS [SMS the artist code to the number [+27 83 920 8406], on the web (www.mva.channelo.tv) or on their mobile phones [channelo.tv or on MXiT].
In spite of the mysterious fire that ravaged Ultima Studios on Sunday August 22, 2010, the company has stated that their two currently running productions WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? and MTN PROJECT FAME WEST AFRICA season 3 would continue as scheduled.
A recording for WWTBAM had just ended, when crew members noticed a minor fire, late Sunday. But what started as a little ball soon turned into huge flames as extinguishers failed to contain the fire.
Staff and contestants who were housed in the Academy were promptly evacuated. There were no injuries nor lives lost. However, both the studios for WWTBAM and MTN Project Fame West Africa were badly hit and invaluable equipment lost to the inferno.
Ultima CEO, Femi Ayeni, told reporters on the site, Sunday, “although the incident is catastrophic and the loss shattering, we’re grateful to God that no lives were lost. The contestants are safe and we are confident that the show will go on, and in no time at all we will be back on air so keep watching.”
Early visitors to the site included MTN’s GM Consumer Marketing, Kola Oyeyemi. MTN, Nigeria’s largest telecoms company, is the sole sponsor for WWTBAM and the title sponsors for Project Fame. “This is a monumental disaster. We can’t even begin to comprehend the personal, emotional and material loss. But in all we thank God that no lives were lost. MTN is committed to enriching lives through our different
services, properties and initiatives and we are already discussing with our partners at Ultima on how to make sure this tragedy does not distract us”.
Ultima is determined to take this incident in its stride and plans are on to return to full and enhanced production of WWTBAM and PFWA.
Culled from olamildentertainment
First before I talk about the controversy going on about the Gambian Movie (The Mirror Boy) Shot By Nollywood, lets have a little peep into the movie itself.
“The Mirror Boy” is an enthralling journey through the picturesque terrains of The Gambia, as seen through the eyes of a London-born 12 year old boy, TIJANI. On the 13th of June and wholly out of character, TIJANI gets involved in a street fight in which a boy is hurt. Convinced that TIJANI needs discipline, TEEMA, his mum decides to take him to the Gambia to live with her sister.
On their arrival in Banjul, TIJANI encounters what he considers to be a simple apparition- a boy smiling at him in a mirror and vanishing afterwards. However, seeing the same boy in a crowded street market the next day sets in motion a chain of events that culminates in him getting lost. While the panic-stricken TEEMA struggles with the Police Force to find her son in an intriguing game of survival brinkmanship, TIJANI is left alone in the company of the enigmatic MIRROR BOY who is only visible to him. As a bruising spiritual rite of passage, the MIRROR BOY takes TIJANI on a magical journey through the dark belly of the forest. After a series of edge-of-the-seat adventures in the forest, TIJANI emerges the next day, a bewildered boy; for whom the lines between reality and fantasy; between the physical and the spiritual have been forever blurred.
His arrival at a time of mourning for a small kingdom upsets the evil machinations of a desperate Queen who; threatened by his innocent presence; is not afraid wield her mysterious powers. A cathartic climax helps TIJANI to unravel the mystery of the MIRROR BOY. It also provides him with a rather mystical explanation for the way his life has cascaded from the 13th of June towards this inter-twined fate with a father he has never met
The Controversy
The irritating controversy about this movie therefore is that the Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, Sinks 300,000 Pounds in Nollywood.
It was reported by Peace FM online that President Yahya Jammeh announced last year that he’s a big fan of Nigeria movies. They also accused him that his subject who he rules over in Gambia know that the amiable and fun-loving head of state has secretly reached the final stage with some Nollywood practitioners to sink about 300,000 pounds sterling into a movie, all thanks to a highly connected London based Gambian, Fatimah Jabbie, who broker the deal between then president and the Nollywood. They also said that they had reports in the grapevine to even suggest that Jammeh could not hide his love for the lady, as he unequivocally warned against any kissing to be extended to Ms. Jabbie, who was featured in the movie as one of the actresses.
Well, personally I think this is all rubbish talk. In the first instance we are not sure if the President funded this movie through his personal pocket or through a structure put in place to develop the Gambian movie industry. This is what is been done even in Hollywood and in the United Kingdom. Also right now in Nollywood, Nigeria is currently collaborating with the United States to develop Nollywood, with a Nollywood film The film titled, 'Welcome to Shelbyville' which tells the story of a small town in America where old and new residents struggle to come to terms with the region's growing diversity and one another.
There are also many ways the Gambian movie industry can benefit from this.
Tourism (the movie will definitely increase the awareness about Gambia),
transferable skills (this is will increase the skills of Gambians that worked with them in the production of this movie - this is one of the main factors that also improved Nollywood),
returns on sale of the movie,
knowledge spill over
and if all this have to be done to improve the Gambian movie industry, the nearest and cheapest stop to import knowledge is Nollywood, because of better resources to shoot the movie than the Gambian Movie Industry.
Cars have a long history in music. To be bragged by an artist, a car had to tell a story or, at least, be an interesting automobile in and of itself, like the 1948 Delahaye once owned by Elton John.
Us Weekly magazine might tell you that stars are "just like us." But, in reality, they aren't. We find they tend to drive better cars — much better cars, ranging from the absurd to the eco-conscious to the practical-chic. But this is nothing new. The love affair between celebs and tasty automobiles is well-documented. And while piloting a million-dollar-plus Ferrari Enzo around town to pick up, say, an iced caffè mocha at the local Starbucks might seem like overkill to you, it's normal to these luminaries.
Not only artists, it has also been reported by Nuts magazine that Chelsea's players have the most expensive and fastest cars. The average cost of a Chelsea footballer's car is £104,835 and their vehicles' top speeds average 192mph. Arsenal players have the second-most expensive cars at £87,652, with Liverpool third (£86,297) and Manchester United fourth (£82,535).
Let me not bore you with the wealth of footballers, but i can conclude that even in Nigeria's music scene we are not lacking.
The pop twins (P-Square) and their brother-manager Jude, who have just returned from a performance tour of the US, have just taken delivery of a BMW X6, two Range Rover Sport, and a Jaguar. This is an addition to their existing fleet of cars which includes a Hummer, Toyota Avalon, Toyota Camry and Toyota Prado. Meanwhile, the multiple award-winning singers have reportedly moved into their ‘N300million mansion’ on Lola Holloway Street, Omole Estate Phase 1, in Lagos. (Culled from Nigerian Entertainment Today, www.thenetng.com)
This is also not leaving out the incredible Asa with a BMW Z4, making heads turn wherever she goes too. The Z4 which is a rear-wheel drive sports car produced by BMW to replace the Z3. (Culled from Nigerian Entertainment Today, www.thenetng.com)
There have been worries this past few weeks that the Nigerian entertainment scene have been short of news and and updates. Well, thats all stale news now as videos upon videos are been released now.
Although last week i posted the just released video from Bez's latest single, i was not expecting more flows from many other artists. out of all the very nice videos been released, i have spotted unique features to share to everyone.
Like we all know by now, Sesan's making of Dbanj's Mr endowed as really wowed everyone (me most especially). As i would have not expected such almost perfect quality mixed with (hilarious and entertaining) creativity form him.
Next is Sheyi's Yesterday featuring Sound sultan and Lambo. I really loved her hook and the bridge and also feel sound sultan nailed his verse.
Lastly, the plaintain anthem. The kid in this video really really wowed me. I personally think this kid would turn out to be a successful actor (with passion). Timaya really did justice to the song by featuring this kid's talent and giving him a chance to express it.
Kemi Adetiba the director of the 'Maga no need pay' video is out again, but this time to tell the story of Bez's - More You.
Few weeks ago I wrote about this new act under my 'friends in the scene page', as the artist who has been tagged as “the next big thing” by the Guardian and Thisday newspapers in 2008.
Bez is finally out with a stunning video that amass his different music styles which can be described as a hybrid of jazz, soul, and world music – a really eclectic sound he terms ‘alternative soul’. He has therefore been able to carve a niche for himself, which we all know is more than able to take him to greater heights.
Here is his new video More You, along side a Rehearsal video.
Enjoy...
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When a director reads a script he or she develops a personal vision for how that story should be told. Whether it is a dark tale, a story of triumph, or one of passion, the director's unique vision will be responsible for presenting it in a way that no other director would. Ishaya Bako has presented himself has a director that sees beyond the words on the page to a moving picture with specific shots, lighting, mood, nuance and emotion -- all visually created for the screen.
Braids on a Bald Head is one of those works that tells the creativity of Ishaya Bako. An alumni of London Film School, he came out with an artistic vision to guide the work of the film crew as they searched for suitable locations, hired cast, designed the sets and lighting, and finally edited and dub the finished recording.
Braids on a Bald Head is a short film about a Hausa hairdresser who during the course of her day is able to ask for better in her stagnant marriage after having an experience that questions her sexuality. Produced by Oliver Aleogena and shot by Clarence Peters, it is a film shot in Kaduna, Nigeria with a wholly Nigerian cast and crew.
This is the director's tale; "I touched down in Abuja on the 1st of April; it was balmy and strangely luminous, like everything and everyone had a light shimmer to them. From the dust covered fan that creaked while it rotated inconsistently due to the fluctuating current to the two immigration officers that checked my passport, wearing fake smiles and looking incredibly bored. I’ll attribute the glow to the excitement that flowed all through my body; and even while stuck in traffic at Lugbe going into the city, I smiled at the passengers jostling to get into buses and taxis; I smiled at the policeman who wasn’t quite sure what he was doing in the middle of the road; I smiled at two drivers arguing with each other while parts of their recently crashed cars lay on the road, oblivious to the horns of the other cars around them. I smiled at the sun rising and warming this beautifully flawed city, this beautifully flawed country.
I’m here to make a film about a poor, married hairdresser who through a brief homosexual encounter is able to muster up courage and stand up to her inattentive husband and ask for better. I have strange illusions of grandeur that are rooted in reality; I’m here for a project that addresses sensitive issues and themes. I’m hopeful, but I’m also aware of the difficulties that I will inevitably come across. My only wish is that this beautifully flawed land be kind to me- be more beautiful than flawed."
Slick Joe, whose style has being compared by many to Usher, by many more to R Kelly and still by some to Craig David considers himself as an R&B act. In his words: “Music is a part of me. Music is an avenue for me to express the various experiences that I have felt or feeling. The feelings could be love or heartbreak, joy or sorrow, loss or glory and of course fun!” .His song writing ability is so developed that he has learnt to capture emotion perfectly with words. Fuss this with his velvet voice and you can see a legend in the making!
Slick Joe, blessed with dashing looks and a GQ dress sense, is back stronger and ready to capture the music industry. He is currently working on his self titled solo album, I AM...SLICK JOE, and already has 2 singles, ADDICTED and TINGILY, rocking the airwaves around Nigeria. He recently featured on Mugun; suspect’s sold out single and is in the process of collaborating with more artists.
He continues to draw applauses from his stage performances because of his stage presence and charisma. He continues to work harder each day, striving to achieving perfection in all he does. Ladies and gentlemen, with no further ado, let me introduce to you, the magnificent.....
It's a highly competitive world out there. So what is the best and most cost-effective way to get your product, service or brand noticed by the consumer?
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Additionally, when a celebrity endorses your company, it tells the consumer that the company is reputable, has good products or good customer service and is a sound company to deal with. Remember, the celebrity’s own image and reputation are at stake.
Presently, a survey is being conducted on Celebrity Television Advertisement with objectives to finding out the impact it has on consumer purchasing behaviour in Nigeria.
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