Twenty five singers have been picked from the Kumasi audition for the next stage of Glo X-Factor competition.
The
next stage of the competition is the boot camp stage, which would be held in
Lagos, Nigeria.
Glo
X-Factor Line Producer, Abigail Clark announced this and expressed delight with
the performance of contestants in the Kumasi audition, saying that 70% of the
contestants had raw talents that could be molded into brilliance.
She
noted that they had auditioned singers from different age groups and cultural
background who performed a variety of genres like reggae, rap, gospel and
rhythm and blues.
Clark
said the contestants who made it to the Boot Camp would be worked on by
choreographers, music producers and voice trainers who would combine to bring
out the best in them for the judges to pick those who would qualify for the
Judges' Home Visit stage.
The
Line Producer disclosed that nine contestants would be picked from the Judges
Home Visit Stage for the Live Performance Stage which would involve people
phoning in to vote for their favourites.
She
urged viewers across the world to start watching the singing reality television
show live from Saturday, May 18, 2013 to Saturday, September 14, 2013 when the
winner of the $150,000 and Sony Music recording contract star prize would
emerge.
Clark
thanked Globacom for giving the team the opportunity to cast its net wide
through auditioning exercises conducted across Nigeria and Ghana, adding that
they were also on the look-out for singers with interesting true life
experiences.
The
Music Director, Carl Raccah also stressed that from his experience over the
years, 'there is no African who cannot sing'.
'We
only need to prepare them psychologically to be less nervous for the latent
talent to become manifest in line with the X-Factor franchise,' he said.
A
total number of 75 singers have now been selected from audition in Port
Harcourt and Abuja in Nigeria, as well as Kumasi in Ghana.
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