Emotions
ran high over the weekend when Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria’s legendary music diva
and one of the judges in Glo X Factor, the music reality TV show, wept openly
during the judges’ audition in Kumasi, Ghana.
Immediately
12-year-old Emmanuel Mensah ended his superlative performance, singing Whitney
Houstin’s “I look to you”, Onyeka, with her eyes welled up in tears, sprang to
her feet, applauding and simultaneously beckoning on Emmanuel to come over to
her.
Compassionately
and adoringly, Onyeka embraced the boy and kissed him on the forehead. “You did
something to me that made me cry and they were tears of gratitude to God for
someone like you. You will go places when you come of age. God bless you”, said
the diva.
Speaking
in the same vein, Reggie Rockstone, Ghanaian grandmaster of Hiplife and another
judge on the show brought to Africa for the first time by Globacom, said, “My
heart is still thumping. We thank God for people like you”.
Mr.
Incredible, MI, also adulated Emmanuel’s performance, describing it as one of
the best voices he had heard during the auditions.
The three
judges lamented that Emmanuel unfortunately fell below the age limit for the
show but all voted yes for him; symbolically to show a great future awaits him
in music.
Other
outstanding contestants like Mr. Unknown, who came to perform with a group but
was singled out for progression because of his amazing capacity to rap and
Philipa Attah, made it to the Boot Camp in Lagos. MI and Onyeka commended
Philipa, who rendered “Someone like you” by Adele, for being focused and
committed.
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