Firm flags off music talent hunt in South East

A promotional firm, Grounded Promotions Entertainment, has unveiled a music talent search aimed at discovering and sponsoring budding music talents that abound in the South East geo-political zone of Nigeria.
Unveiling the programme in Enugu last Sunday, the CEO of Grounded Promotions Entertainment, Mr. Ebigbo Emeka Stanley, also known as Bond, announced that the talent search will be for the three states of Anambra, Imo and Enugu, in the first instance while subsequent years would cover the entire states of the zone.
He said that he was motivated to embark on the project of discovering talents and providing platforms for them to excel because over the years, having grown up in Enugu before his foray outside the country, he discovered that the state and indeed, South East zone have a lot of talented young people who do not have opportunities and platforms to blossom.
Ebigbo enjoined the talented youths in the area to take advantage of the promotion to sell themselves and become the next music stars like Phino, Flavour, illbliss, J. Martins and Mr. Raw among others.
He said that expression of interest form goes for N5000 while auditions will take place at Awka, Owerri and Enugu with a grand finale where the final selection will be made at Enugu, adding that the winner will get N3.5 million (not cash), in a recording and management deal. The first runner up goes with N200, 000 and the second runner up with N100, 000.
“Whether you are a first runner up or a second runner up, if you enroll with us and when people start hearing the kind of sound that will be coming up from the runner up, they will know that these people are not joking because we have been on this for a long time. There are so many things to benefit from – the platform, the exposure, it is not going to end here. I’m sure Lagos and even outside Nigeria you are going to hear about who they are,” he said.
Other partners in the project, including; popular musician, illbliss (Oga Boss), the CEO Mr. Nigeria Entertainment, Nani Boi; and the CEO of Big and Small Entertainment, Jeff Ohaka, all pledged their commitment to making the project a success, saying that some judges, top level producers and directors would be brought from Lagos and they were going to be professional.