Olatunji Oladotun Alade, an
undergraduate of the University of Lagos, has emerged winner of the Lagos
regional finals of Airtel One Mic, a music talent-hunt competition for tertiary
institutions driven by leading telecommunications service provider, Airtel
Nigeria.
The 200 Level student popularly known
as ‘Dotman’ held off very strong challenge from five other zonal finalists in
the keenly contested regional final held at the Beverly International Events
Centre, Bariga, Lagos, to win the star prize, a brand new KIA Picanto.
In addition
to the star prize, he was also rewarded with a full artiste makeover and
recording deal with ID Cabasa’s Coded Tunes.
The contestants for the
Lagos regional finals were drawn from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos State
University and the University of Lagos after an intra-school competition which produced two
representatives for each school to make up the six final contestants.
For over two hours, the six finalists
vied on the stage with their lyrics and
creativity under scrutiny of the trio of music producer, ID Cabasa; rapper and
musician, Reminisce and Vector Tha Viper who were the judges on the day.
As the finalist performed acapella,
freestyle and their individual studio songs, the judges assessed them on
appearance, stage performance, crowd connection, punch line, wordplay, and
creativity. The judges finally reached a unanimous decision in favour of
Unilag’sDotman whose skills outshone the others.
Congratulating the winner, Airtel’s
Regional Operations Director for Lagos, Mr. Femi Oshinlaja acknowledged the
performance of all participants and noted specially the performance of the
overall winner who he said is indeed deserving of the grand prize, as his
talent and ability particularly endeared him to the audience and judges.
He further reiterated Airtel’s
commitment to empowering talented young Nigerians with the right platform to
achieve their dreams and go on to become global stars. “With platforms like
Airtel One Mic, these youngsters can become the best they can and even possibly
go on to become great stars. Asides from Airtel One Mic, we also have the
Airtel TRACE Music show and some other
platforms we are rolling out to provide Nigerian youths the opportunity
to showcase their God-given talents,” he said.
The highly elated “Dotman” who could
not contain his emotions expressed his appreciation to Airtel Nigeria for
providing the youth a platform to achieve their dreams and most especially for
the One Mic project which has helped set him on the path towards achieving his
dreams through music. He thanked Airtel Nigeria for the reward and its constant
support for students in the tertiary institutions
“I am overwhelmed with joy today for
emerging winner of Airtel’s One Mic project. I thank Airtel Nigeria for this
initiative. It is an encouragement that will inspire me to the peak of my music
career. I am very much grateful to Airtel,” he said
The initiative whose objective is to
discover and promote musical talents from tertiary institutions in Nigeria fits
into Airtel’s overall commitment towards encouraging and empowering Nigerian
youths at achieving their dreams through various identified passion points.
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