Celebrated and popular Nigerian entertainers, Sound Sultan,
Phyno, Gordons, and a host of other entertainers took Lagos by storm with their
exceptionally superb performances at the Amstel Malta Showtime finale, which
held at the Unilag Indoor Sports Hall last week.
The stars featured in the Lagos edition of Amstel Malta Showtime
concert drama directed by Ice Nweke tagged “The Rush”, which was a fusion of
various artistic displays by ballerinas, singers, actors, fire eaters, jugglers, dancers, rappers,
instrumentalists, comedians e.t.c put together to tell the story of a young
man’s journey to success in a brilliant theatrical piece.
Also performing with these stars were 5 young talents selected
via auditions: Singing duo (male and female); Instrumentalist duo (a violinist
and a guitarist), a dance team of four, a comedian and a rapper.
Just as was seen in Enugu, a few other young talents who also
impressed the judges but didn’t make it to the top five slots, got the chance
to perform during the show.
According to renowned musician, Sound Sultan who also served as
a judge and mentor on this season of Showtime, “this experience has been worth
every single hype. I’m very glad to be a part of this and I can tell you
confidently that Nigeria is blessed with the most unique talents. We saw
variety at the auditions both in Enugu and Lagos. So much so that we had an
extremely tough time making our final pick and so had to give a number of
talents the opportunity to perform even though they didn’t make it to the final
5. Big thumbs up to Amstel Malta for putting this together”, he said.
Amstel Malta Brand Manager, Hannatu Ageni-Yusuf, expressed the
brand’s pleasure at the success of the 2014 edition of Showtime.’ This edition
of Amstel Malta Showtime has been the most explosive we’ve ever had and we are
very glad as a brand that we decided to do this. We thought of a way to give
young talents a better opportunity to showcase themselves, rather than just
compete and walk home with cash prizes. The mentorship sessions were intense
and we are confident that this experience will help launch these talents to the
right path in their careers”, she said.
Apart from the amazing opportunity given to them, these young
talents also took home cash prizes.
