"The Voice Nigeria”: M-Net entertainment holds audition in Abuja

 

The M-Net African Magic, a TV entertainment channel on Saturday began its Abuja auditioning for its reality television singing show, “The Voice Nigeria.”

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that, "The Voice Of Nigeria’’ is a reality television singing competition.

The two-day auditioning which began on Jan. 16 at the Bolingo Hotels and Towers Abuja will see the emergence of the best talent voice in the FCT.

Mr Efosa Aiyevbomwom, the Head of Public Relations, M-Net African Magic Entertainment told NAN that the essence of the audition was to support, promote, and encourage young talents.

"The M-Net and African Magic believe in giving opportunities to young talents in the society and availing them the opportunity to showcase their talents to the whole world. It is our responsibility to always support talents in Africa, provide entertainment by Africans as well as giving talented Africans opportunity to shine behind and in front of the camera. This is just an extension of one of the things we have been doing over the years which is channeling our investment into the entertainment industry", he said.

Mr. Aiyevbomwom explained that winners would not be selected immediately.

According to him, the audition is to enable them select the best talents, who will eventually make it to the show. 

"We will get across to them after the final list has been concluded. Auditioning phase is more or less selection phase; in total, once we have the final cut and number, we will announce", he said.

One of the participants, Mr Vincent Anthony, said it was his first time to participate in an audition and that he was targeting to emerge as one of the best. Another participant, Mr Nissi Phillips said he was happy to attend “The Voice Nigeria” audition. He said it would be a dream comes through if he was eventually selected.

Miss Mariam Kama, an Economics graduate of University of Abuja, who also participated in the programme, told NAN that she was optimistic of been among the selected ones. She said: "this is my dream and I know that I will go far".

NAN reports that, “The Voice” is a popular singing competition franchise across the world.

The auditioning kicked off in different part of the country simultaneously has other model – "The Voice USA,” “The Voice Australia,” “The Voice UK,” “The Voice South Africa, among others.

The auditioning also took place in Port Harcourt and Calabar on Jan. 9 and Jan. 10, while Abuja and Lagos holds from Jan. 16 to Jan. 17.

Leonardo DiCaprio: Veteran actor reacts to 5th Oscar nomination

The 41-yr-old actor has made it clear that winning the Oscar award would be an "icing on the cake" as he has worked as hard as he possibly could.




Hollywood actor, Leonardo DiCaprio, has spoken up on his 5th Oscar nomination following the role in the new hit movie, Revenant.

he 41-yr-old actor has made it clear that winning the Oscar award would be an "icing on the cake" as he has worked as hard as he possibly could.

Speaking on the role he played in the movie with This Morning, DiCaprio revealed that:

"I do know that it’s completely beyond my control at this point. It’s interesting, because that’s not why you do the work, you know? You do the work because you love making movies and you want to look back and have a filmography that you’re proud of.

"When you’re on set you have to give everything that you possibly can while you’re there but of course being recognised by your peers and all that other stuff that happens is kind of the cherry on the cake so to speak.

"But all the work from me has been done, I’ve done everything I could possibly do, so it’s all up to you to decide whether it's worthy of being seen or talked about or awarded."