Africa’s biggest youth event, The Future Awards
Africa 2014 has announced the performers for its
2014 edition, and from Paris, one of Africa’s
biggest exports to the world, Asa is leading the
pack.
Paris-based, Nigeria’s most successful music
export of this decade, ASA and arguably the
foremost breakout artiste of the year, Yemi
Alade.
The event will be broadcast live, primetime, on
Channels TV - from 7.30 - 9.30pm. The event will
hold this Sunday, 7 Dec. at the Intercontinental
Hotels in Lagos, Nigeria. It is strictly by
invitation.
Described by CNN as ‘an African pop legend in
the making’, Asa recently released her third
album, ‘BED OF STONE’, which has arnered rave
reviews across the world, will be performing songs
from it exclusively at TFAA 2014. She will be joined
by multi-award winning singer, Iyanya and 2014’s
breakout artiste, Yemi Alade, who debuted
her album.
‘KING OF QUEENS’ this year, with her music
crossing borders through collaborations with the
likes of Tanzania’s most successful artiste,Diamond
Platnumz.
“Also on the stage at the awards will be pop
culture icons including Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde,
Genevieve Nnaji, Banky W and Lanre Da Silva
Ajayi,” said designer Ohimai Atafo, who is Chair of
the Central Working Committee for the awards.
“They will be driving the content of the awards
through calls to action and award presentations.”
It will be recalled that, last week, the organisers
announced the four anchors for the event:
Nigeria’s Ice Prince, Iyanya and Osas Ighodaro
alongside Ugandan Channel O VJ, Flavia Tuminise.
HOSTING THE RED CARPET WILL BE AFRICA’S IT
GIRLS ON TELEVISION, BOLANLE OLUKANNI and
ZAINAB BALOGUN of EbonyLife TV.
They will be
joined by fashion bloggers, Denola Adepetun and
Zina Anumudu of StyleVitae who have defined the
culture for fashion over the past year.
The Future Awards Africa 2014 will be broadcast
live, primetime, on perennially award-winning TV
station, Channels Television - from 7.30 - 9.30pm.
The black-tie event holds on Sunday, 7 December
at the Intercontinental Hotels in Lagos, Nigeria.
It is strictly by invitation.
The Future Awards Africa 2014 is headlined by
Vitafoam and presented in partnership with
Microsoft, the Lagos Internal Revenue Service and
the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
Official Media Partners are EbonyLife TV,
AfricaMagic, Ventures Africa, and Y! Africa.
Official Online Partners are MemeBurn, BellaNaija
and 360nobs.
Country
partners are RedBox Africa, The Trent,
Information Nigeria, News Wire Nigeria, SabiNews
and Pulse.ng. Buzz Partners are Style Vitae,
StyleMeAfrica, Fashpa.com & FAP.
Cool FM is the host radio station. Channels
Television is the host TV station.
For more information, visit @TFAAfrica on
Twitter/Instagram or the website
www.thefutureafrica.com/awards
[2] The official
hashtags for the 2014 awards is
#TheFutureAwards2014.
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