It was a great night of music, dance and fun last Saturday at the Star Music Trek concert held at Calabar Municipal Gardens, as top acts like Sound Sultan, M.I, Burna Boy, Cynthia Morgan, Chidinma and Phyno thrilled guests to no end.
Hosted by comedian LaffUp, the show kicked off at 7pm with the discovery of new talents in an open mic contest. The talents sang their versions of Star Music The Trek 2016 theme song, My City Rocks. After this, DJs Big N and Neptune gave the Calabar crowd a strong feel of the hottest songs ruling the airwaves. Dancers dressed in colourful Efik-Ibibio traditional attires presented a choreographed medley of Sunny Nneji’s Idemnobno, Face Me remix and Iyanya’s Kurukere. It was indeed an amazing way to start a show.
Chidinma, popularly known as Miss Kedike formally opened the concert with a spin on homeboy, Sunny Nneji’s Oruka, before switching to her song, Olulufe. She was accompanied to the stage by a Flavour lookalike and this got the crowd cheering. Burna Boy got the audience super charged during his performance. Bursting to the stage with Wada Mo, the artiste sang a number of his hit tracks including Soke, as the crowd chorused word for word.
The acclaimed ‘god-mother’ of dance hall music in Nigeria, Cynthia Morgan, gave the Calabar audience a show stopping performance. She thrilled them with hits like I’m Taken, Don’t Break My Heart, and Lead Me On. Sound Sultan’s performance was remarkable as the Ninja squad was also represented on stage. Speaking after his performance, Sultan said: “Calabar felt like home and the love I got from the hundreds of fans was unprecedented.”
M.I later brought his A-game to the Calabar concert, coming off the success of his performance at Star Music The Trek Abuja. He invited a couple of his fans to the stage and ended the performance with his hit song, Bullion Van.
Headliner for the Calabar gig, Phyno then took the excited audience to another height. Once he stepped on stage, Phyno did not hold back as he kept dropping hit songs that were suggested by the mesmerized crowd. And when Phyno performed Fada Fada, it was a total shutdown at the Municipal Gardens.
On Saturday November 12, the music train will berth in Owerri while the grand finale holds in Lagos on November 26.