AFTER SUCCESSFULLY hosting ‘Ghana’s Most Beautiful’, TV3 and Onetouch
are at it again with yet another out-of-the-ordinary reality show
dubbed ‘Gangstarz’.

Expected to capture the most attention, Gangstarz would search for Ghana’s next super vocal group. The programme is designed to get creative youth in their 20s to use their talents to come out with rhythms which would keep viewers glued to their seats.

Participants should be between the ages of 18 and 25, energetic, fashionable, smart and eloquent. They must also have unique stagecraft and vocal capabilities. With 12 different groups in all, the show rolls out in 13 episodes.

Each episode would allow the groups to exhibit their teamwork on stage. A specific genre of music would be performed each week where the groups would be given the chance to perform their own composition to battle to reach the grand finale.

Eviction would commence in the third week of the show.

Judges and the public would have 40 percent-60 percent voting power respectively but this time, the eviction would be by the power of a jury, whose members would be picked from among myTV3 fan club, people conversant with music and performances, as well as fashionable young people.

The Gangstarz eviction parties would always be held at the Boomerang Night Club.

Judges for this project would include Jackie Ankrah, Ben Brako and B.B. Menson (the virus from Radio Gold), with guest judges such as Reggie Rockstone, Last 2 among others making appearances. Presenters would be Vashti and Blackboy.

The show got underway some three weeks ago with the auditioning of various groups which came from all over the country, at the premises of TV3. After grueling sessions in the three-day long audition, 12 groups were selected.

They are: FLAMES, LS3, NATIVES, XSIVE, PIPPERS, 2HOT, 1 ACCORD, SP ARX, DA SOUL, BLAZE, AFRO, and SHADES. The show would hit the screens from Sunday August 17 to November 16, 2008. The final show is expected to be staged at the Accra International Conference Center or the National Theatre.

The team which would come out as the winner through SMS voting and by the verdict of the jury would walk home with GH¢15,000.

The first and second runners-up would get GH¢5,000 and GH¢4,000 respectively with the third runner-up getting GH¢3,000. There would also be other prizes.