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Neky Ngwe Season 3 Winner, The Mic: Africa
Nigeria’s Neky Becomes First Woman to Win Grand Prize
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, November 14, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Five-time Telly Award-winning music competitors and docu-series The Mic: Africa – the primary interactive TV format born on the Continent – has introduced its successful artists for Season 3. Nigerian singer Neky Ngwe has grow to be the primary girl ever to win the highest prize in The Mic: Africa contest. She emerged from a good competitors of followers voting in the Take Back the Mic (TBTM) app with three weighted finale votes from Country Captains, taking her mixed rating excessive. Neky wins the present’s prime money prize and a VIP journey for 2 to Dubai.
Also breaking floor this yr, 8 of out of 10 native filmmakers who shot the semifinalists’ video profiles had been ladies, highlighting the outstanding depth of feminine inventive expertise on the Continent.
The different winners embody Ethiopia’s Rumiii and Hiwot Admasu sharing the TBTM Honors Prize for finest Artist/Filmmaker duo, Morocco’s Drunk Panda with the Founder’s Prize, award-winning Nigerian filmmaker and media CEO Chichi Nwoko successful the Golden Reel Prize, and the Fan Favorite Prize going to rapper J93 of Tanzania.
Season 3 introduced the sequence’ complete media impressions to 1.1 Billion, with broadcast distribution on Premium Free Satellite TV in 20+ international locations throughout the entire of Sub-Saharan Africa with an viewers attain of 40 Million, and a worldwide viewers tuning in at tbtm.app. This yr’s present introduced stiff competitors between an array of expertise spanning the Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
Three Celebrity Mentors from throughout the diaspora helped information the expertise with each heartfelt encouragement and unvarnished suggestions: Hip Hop legend and trailblazing Death Row rapper, Lady of Rage; David Kau, South Africa’s main standup comedian, and famend Nigerian Music Executive, Bizzle Osikoya.
The Mic: Africa seeks to attach African music, arts and tradition with a brand new era of followers around the globe. Ghana-born Founder & CEO of TBTM Studios, Derrick N. Ashong (“DNA”), launched the TBTM app to reward customers for locating and amplifying the most popular new content material.
“With The Mic: Africa,” stated Ashong, “Our goal is to lift up the amazing artists and filmmakers we discover on the TBTM platform, while rewarding their fans with mobile data so they can stay online longer with local operators like MTN Nigeria.”
About TBTM Studios
TBTM (Take Back the Mic) Studios has constructed the world’s first blockchain-based Media Fintech, turning Culture into Currency by rewarding followers and compensating creators for constructing communities round nice content material. Their flagship program, the interactive expertise competitors and docu-series, “The Mic: Africa,” has earned 5 Telly Awards (2 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze), reverse Netflix, HBO and Disney+, a Murex D’Or Award, and a Monaco Streaming Award, in addition to greater than 1 Billion media impressions worldwide, and quite a few Times Square billboards in New York City. TBTM Studios has simply opened its Dubai workplace, including to its presence in Hollywood, Buenos Aires, and Mauritius, East Africa.
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