Dreams to Fame winners crowned

to Fame.
In the music category Tholakele Ndlovu was crowned the most promising female artiste beating 24 other contestants while the best costume went to last year’s most promising artiste Mthulisi Moyo. Young Stanilus Mpofu was crowned the most promising male artiste.
Amapopcorn dance group clinched the top prize in the junior category outclassing the group Naledi which won last year. Amapopcorn is made up of Alibaba Munamo and Michael Ndlovu who did justice on the stage with their footwork.
In the senior dance category Explosion came first. The four-member group wowed the audience making it obvious they were going to clinch the title.
Expose dance group got away with both the most promising and the best costume for dance.
The awards, as per tradition, will be presented on 25 February during the awards season.
The highly contested finals were judged by the celebrity panel of Sandra Ndebele, Albert Nyathi and Precious Makhulumo.
The judges were amazed by the talent exhibited by the youngsters.
Songbird Ndebele said: “This is amazing we are coming here to engage fresh talent.”
Nyathi said Bulawayo has a great future as evidenced by the tight contest.
Makhulumo said: “Where do you unearth such talent Amakhosi? Amapopcorn blessed my day, they are hot.”
This year’s Dreams To Fame was bigger and better in terms of quality of entries and audience size than last year. A total of 1 200 youngsters went on stage to showcase their talent before a cumulative record audience of 17 000 over 20 weeks.
However, the winners did not have time to celebrate as they were on the road to building their names when they performed on Saturday at the National Aids Commemorations that were held at MacDonald Hall.
Dreams to Fame organises bookings for the winners as a way of developing their presentation skills and exposing them to the industry.
It is an Amakhosi brand that aims to provide a free platform to aspiring artistes to showcase what they would have created to the public for 20 weeks in summer, running from August to December each year.
The aspiring artistes use the platform to take constructive criticism to work on their creations week after week to grow themselves. It is also an audience building programme for the arts that encourages the consumption and enjoyment of arts and cultural products by the young generation while developing a strong sense of confidence, freedom of choice and expression in young people.
Amakhosi Cultural Centre’s mission is to discover and polish the talent in every individual.