2 FACE, ELDEE, others converge for TOP 10 MIC

2 Face, Eldee, others converge for TOP 10 MIC

By Samod Biobaku

Sixthsense34@yahoo.com

Come December, 2011, Award-winning singer, 2 Face, elDee Tha Don, Femi Kuti, Obesere. Sir Shina Peters and other artistes will team up with Koga Entertainment for the ‘Top 10 Mic’ show scheduled to unfold at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos. To ensure that the event lives up to expectations, KOGA Entertainment will play host to the event and the show will be graced by Nigeria’s top ten artistes – who are expected to cut across all genres of music. “Our aim is to do a show that is ‘truly Nigerian’. It is not Hip Hop; it is not Afro beat, Fuji, Dancehall or Apala. It will be everything Nigerian,”.read a statement from the concert PR agency, Bigsam Media. Speaking on the preparation of the entertainment company, Elsie Oluko, Head of Operations, says “KOGA is providing a platform that will unite the young and the old. In time past we used to have the Lekki Sun Splash which more than one million people used to look forward to yearly, but now we have no such concerts anymore. What we are trying to do is bring back the memories of time past, and create new ones. Our selection of artiste shows that we are fair to all ages and not settling for anything less than the best”. Meanwhile six out of the 10 entertainers that are expected to perform on that night have been announced. In a statement by Bigsam Media, iconic Nigerian superstar 2face Idibia will lead the new generation singers such as M.I and Eldee to TBS on the 23rd of December 2011, while tested veterans will be led by two-time Grammy award nominee, Femi Kuti, while Afro Juju creator Sir Shina Peters and Paramount King of Fuji, Abass Akande Obesere will represent the Juju and Fuji genre respectively. KOGA in the mean time is keeping the identities of the remaining four entertainers to its chest as it plans for it to be a joker.