Top music acts from across the African continent are billed to perform at the forth-coming 2014 Glo-CAF Awards scheduled to hold in Lagos on January 8, 2015.
The houshold names that will perform alongside a host of Nigerian Glo ambassadors include Congo DRC’s multiple award-winning song writer, singer and guitarist, Fally Ipupa; global Jazz icon, Hugh Masekela from South Africa and Egyptian folk singer and the first person from an Arab country to perform at a Nobel Prize ceremony, Hakim. Other acts billed to perform at the show, which will be watched live all over the world, include the Soweto Gospel Choir from South Africa, sensational singing group, Uhuru; pan African group, Cirque D’Afrique and Tanzania’s prominent multiple award-winning singer, Diamond.
Flavour; Hip hop sensations, P-Square and Wande Coal; Afrobeat icon, Lagbaja and one of Nigeria’s most prominent female singers Omawumi will also perform.
“It is a careful selection of music stars and highly decorated performers, whose songs are currently ruling the airwaves across the continent” said Mr. Ashok Israni, Globacom’s Regional Marketing Director, West Africa. According to him, the stars are expected to take turns performing at different stages of the awards.