[ 2013-07-27 ]

K Bee

MTN outdoors 12 Hitmaker II contestants
The 12 contestants in the MTN Hitmaker reality
show will be housed for thirteen weeks during the
broadcast of the television series to determine
who emerges as winner in the second season of the
show.

This was made known to a gathering made up of
media personnel, bloggers, sponsors, the
contestants and their families during a short
event to outdoor the contestants last Thursday
evening at the poolside of the Oak Plaza Hotel in
Accra.

An official of MTN Ghana Mr. Guido Sopiimeh, who
unveiled the contestants, said while in the house
the contestants “will be assigned to
professional music production houses in Ghana who
will support them in making their songs
better.”

The producers of the show will also rely on season
judges Ofie Cudjoe, Zapp Mallet and Bessa Simon to
help groom the contestants into world class
artistes.

“The judges will also support by grooming the
contestants to becoming the great performers that
the MTN Hitmaker show wants them to be,” Mr.
Sopiimeh mentioned.

According to the producers of the show there were
over 2000 submission of demos across the country
by wannabe musicians willing to take part in the
season two of MTN Hitmaker. Mr. Sopiimeh told the
gathering that “the demos received were
subjected to rigorous scrutiny by our able panel
of judges after which the best ones were invited
to undergo an auditioning process.”

The twelve contestants who were unveiled to the
gathering by Mr. Sopiimeh and MC for the evening
Bola Ray include ABIGAIL ANTWI, ALBERT BUABENG,
STEPHEN KIM (KOFI KOREA), OLEVYA ABA, FIIFI SEY
ARMAH, PRIZINERS (George Kwasi Sarpong aka Abraham
and Christopher Boakye Yiadom aka Kojo Boakye),
JAMILATU MOHAMMED, MIGUEL ODURO DANIELS (Qwabyna),
NANA ADOBEA, HUSSEIN MUSAH, KOO NTAKARA and
GILBERT BOSSU (Cano-Z).

On their part judges for the season, who
incidentally were the judges for the first season,
were all happy for the choice they had made and
were confident that the twelve finalists would not
disappoint them when the reality show begins to
air on television and viewers see the potential of
the contestants.

It is planned by the producers that the 13 week
television series of the MTN Hitmaker 2 show would
commence from the first week of August and would
air on Metro TV, GTV, Skyy TV and Multi TV on
Sundays at 8:30pm.

The public can participate in the show by voting
to keep their favourite contestants in the
competition towards the weekly evictions.

The MTN Hitmaker season two has a prize package of
a recording and artiste management deal worth
GH¢100, 000.00 for the winner and GH¢50, 000.00
for the first runner-up. The third and
fourth-placed winners as well as all finalists
will also receive some handsome prizes.

MTN Hitmaker will also reward the sound engineer
with the Best Beat on the show and weekly prizes
for Best Performer, Best Appearance, Highest
‘Texters’ and more. Introduced last year, the
show aims at identifying, grooming and supporting
young aspiring artistes to record their own music
and turning them into stars.

The first season was a huge success and everyone
saw the wonderful, transformed talents on
television for several weeks before the final
showdown at the Accra International Conference
Centre where Shadrach Adjei alias Naterial beat
Miriam, Chiki and Atimbilla to claim the first
prize.

Miriam placed second. Naterial and her have since
recorded their debut albums titled Mamle and My
Testimony respectively.

The Hitmaker initiative is championed by MTN and
supported by the MTN Ghana Foundation under the
auspices of the Youth Empowerment Programme in
partnership with the Musicians Union of Ghana
(MUSIGA).

Source - Ghanamusic

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