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Contestants are expected to select their preferred audition location on your profile page. Simply login and click on edit profile where you can select your audition location - Lagos, Abuja or Owerri. This must be done on or before 17th April...

voting still continues as contestants can still upload their videos and solicit votes from friends and family to visit and vote for their video by filling the voting form attached to the video with your name, email and phone number and submit vote. The voting system has been made faster and better...

voting still continues as contestants can still upload their videos and solicit votes from friends and family to visit and vote for their video by filling the voting form attached to the video with your name, email and phone number and submit vote. The voting system has been made faster and better...

As contestants begin to upload their videos for auditions, we welcome GMA friends and family to visit and vote for a video of your choice by filling the voting form attached to the video with your name, email and phone number and submit vote...

Contestants are required to record and upload a 60 seconds video for their auditions. Also, view and share with your friends and family to gather votes as it will stand as your first level of auditions - The more votes you get qualifies you for the auditions...

The family is the bedrock of our society. Strong families build strong communities which in turn can build a strong nation...

Music is often overlooked as a therapeutic intervention: singing, listening, and creating music of any kind will provide an immediate biological and psychological benefit for everyone...

The definition of musical integrity could be very different depending on who is asked. One response may be that musical integrity is keeping a genre to a strict style, while another could be staying true to yourself with the music that you write...

If making music isn’t the most ancient of human activities, it’s got to be pretty close...

I love when I notice I’m smiling when I’m alone. The smile isn’t falsely constructed to please anyone else...

TO EVANGELIZE is the supreme mission of the church. It is the primary busi­ness of every disciple...

Praise and Worship - A Natural Desire Praise and worship seems to be universal. Have you ever heard of an explorer finding a new tribe or culture that doesn't worship?..

“If music be the food of love, play on!” With these opening words of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare captured an essential bond between two things without which no human being should have to do, but — at least in the case of the latter — many people regrettably often have to do without...

“If music be the food of love, play on!” With these opening words of Twelfth Night, Shakespeare captured an essential bond between two things without which no human being should have to do, but — at least in the case of the latter — many people regrettably often have to do without...

My friend, West, left a question on another post. He was asking about comments I’ve made to the effect that it isn’t a worship leader’s responsibility to lead people into God’s presence. Only Jesus can do that. West wrote:..

Music often seems to connote an emotion or a state of being..

Music is a powerful tool for cultivating community and a powerful drug that allows you to reach states of ecstasy without the come-down, writes Justin St. Vincent...

No matter what you do for a living, no matter how old you are, and regardless of where you grew up, we all share something in common—a desire to be successful...

I think that there is a dramatic link between music and morality (as a subject to explore and represent). To do so is an opportunity, not a necessity which Aristotle assumes. Morality here refers to intrinsic responsibilities in relations between people, aware of each other, and connects to values...

While music has long been recognized as an effective form of therapy to provide an outlet for emotions, the notion of using song, sound frequencies and rhythm to treat physical ailments is a relatively new domain, says psychologist Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, who studies the neuroscience of music at McGill University in Montreal...

At its core, music is sound, and sound is rooted in vibration. Led by Lee Bartel, PhD, a music professor at the University of Toronto, several researchers are exploring whether sound vibrations absorbed through the body can help ease the symptoms of Parkinson's disease, fibromyalgia and depression...

The beep of ventilators and infusion pumps, the hiss of oxygen, the whir of carts and the murmur of voices as physicians and nurses make rounds — these are the typical noises a premature infant hears spending the first days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)...

There would be a formal unveiling of the biggest gospel music reality TV competition in Africa on the 8th of July, 2016 in Lagos Nigeria. The competition, which is known as Gospel Music Africa (GMA) will target gifted young people across the continent that are pursuing a career in music...

Love means different things to different people. It provokes different feelings in different people. Some believe in it. Some think they believe in it and at least I’ve meant someone who does not believe in the idea of love. I think whom you direct your affections towards and yield your feelings to determines your experience and therefore your conclusions about love...

Being of Fulani descent, I have long slim limbs and so have always taken my hitherto long lean frame for granted. Child bearing and the countless nocturnal meals coupled with a lack of (adequate) exercise have taken their toll on my body...

In life, there are universal laws and principles that guide every aspect of life. This therefore means that very family that stands the storms of life when it comes are families that are established upon kingdom laws and principles, just like the ones we shall be looking at as we address HOME FRONT issues in this month of March...

You Prosper by Principles. This is the title of a rare financial book written by a Christian elderly man on the history of his journey from financial worries to wealth. He was a farmer as a teenager, a profession that was forced on him by the circumstance of his family. His father had stroke, so he dropped out of school to help his mother, his ailing father and his three other brothers and sister, financially. He became acting breadwinner by default. Things were very rough financially. He would cry every night. But eventually, he became very rich, though behind his contemporaries, at the age of 63years...