How to go high on audience approval

A lively, responsive audience can elicit remarkable feats from performers and that was what happened at the final show of the third edition of the Stars of the Future talent contest at the National Theatre last Saturday.

Aside of the four official competitors, there were also better known acts in the persons of Tinny, Becca and Asem on the bill. They were there to give the audience doses of more familiar stuff and they rode well on the waves of audience enthusiasm.

Becca interacted with the audience in a way almost not seen of her before. It was as if she meant to tell all present that she had been learning and that her confidence level has been consistently rising.

“In my view, it was Becca that turned the place upside down with her performance,” said a young lady who simply described herself as a Becca fan. “I see her perform whenever I can but she showed me she was an artiste on a well-defined mission last Saturday.”

Becca’s manager, Kiki Banson, said he was highly pleased with her output at the show. “She likes to raise the bar for herself all the time and always wants to prove that she is getting better all the time. She did a lot of spontaneous things on stage and I felt really proud of her on the night.”

Tinny, also known as Aletse Kankpe, is relatively a more experienced performer than Becca, having started making an impact on the scene five years ago with Makola Kwakwe. He opted to offer snippets from his well-known songs.

That trick worked well for him because the audience already know the tracks and they delightedly helped him to deliver them. He also displayed some appreciable dance skills.

“I wonder how he is able to keep all those ‘wicked’ Ga expressions in his head,” said a young lady at the show, referring to Tinny’s peculiar fast rhymes in Ga.

Branded as one of hiplife’s latest sensations, Nana Wiafe Asante Mensah aka Asem has managed to turn attention to himself with just one song: Give Me Blow. The latest hiplife kid on the block received a very, very warm welcome to the stage and he was helped along at some points by other artistes including Irene Logan, Bradez, Tinny and Richie.

He obviously has a lot of potential but seems he can learn more about some of the little tricks that do magic for performers on stage including how to establish effectual eye contact with the audience. He is undoubtedly, a star of the future.