MTN Project Fame West Africa Kicks Off

MTN Project Fame, a music talent competition which creates the opportunity of a lifetime for 18 naturally gifted individuals to end up becoming music superstars now in its season 3 has begun.
This time, 18 lucky youngsters were chosen from a round of auditions and were taken to the Performance Academy where they will reside throughout the duration of the competition.
They will be trained and coached into becoming music professionals by members of the Faculty, which is a group of music professionals whose main responsibility is to teach and train the contestants.
While in the Fame Academy, contestants will be filmed 24/7, a daily thirty minute show will air on several TV stations all over the country from Monday to Friday. Each Sunday the contestants will all perform. After their individual performances, the judges and members of the faculty will comment and afterwards members of the public get to vote for the contestant who they think had the best performance.
Voting starts from Sunday 8pm and ends by 4pm on Saturday.
 Four contestants with the lowest public votes will be up for elimination AT the elimination Show and are however given a chance to redeem themselves by performing again. Afterwards, the judges, the contestants and the faculty save one contestant each. The contestant who isn’t saved at all is automatically eliminated. This is the same format the show will go with until a winner emerges in three months time.
This year’s Project Fame winner will go home with a fantastic recording contract of N2.5m and a brand new Toyota RAV4. The first runner up gets N1.5m and a Toyota Corolla while the second runner up gets N1m and a Toyota Yaris. In addition the top 6 contestants get to work with Nigeria’s leading producer on their own compositions and release a group song.
The first winner of MTN Project Fame was Iyanya Mbuk who has gone on to release his successful debut album, My Story. The winner of PFWA Season 2 was Mike Anyasodo whose ‘Fine Fine Lady’ single is now a radio and a regular on TV Channels across the country.