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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