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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