Centage Superstar Debuts

The biggest music talent show to ever hit Nigerian television ‘Centage Superstar’ is here!!!

The reality television show which is themed around the search for a fresh Nigerian music superstar who will represent the Nigerian music scene and Nigeria as a whole inside and outside the country is being put together by Centage Savings and Loans Limited (Mortgage bankers) with Kennis music, Nigeria’s foremost music label.

The finance bank whose strong point includes a dynamic board comprising some Ex- Directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria has teamed up with Kennis music to discover the best artiste in the country through a chain of nation- wide auditions. The eventual winner is expected to go home with a brand new Toyota Prado Jeep worth 7 million Naira, 2 million naira cash and a 10 million naira deal with Nigeria’s leading and most influential record label.

The basic objective of the Centage superstar is to discover and promote young music Nigerian superstars. Every winner that emerges from each region goes back home with One million Naira, and an opportunity to represent his/her region in the grand finale in March 2010.

The second prize is a Toyota Corolla and One Million Naira, while the third position goes home with Five hundred thousand Naira and a yet-to-be announced consolation prize. ‘It is the first time in the history of Nigeria that this will be happening’ the organizers told news men in Lagos on Friday.

Also at stake for the contestants and member of the public is a house located in Abuja.

Meanwhile, the official launch for the show held on Friday, June 12, 2008 at the Civic centre, and the forms have started selling at all UBA, Intercontental and Centage branches across the country for three thousand five hundred naira.

Check out pictures from the launch...