Bruce Melodie (left) Jay Polly (centre) and the Dream Boys (right) will
battle it out for honours and cash award on August 30 when curtains fall
on the Primus Guma Guma Superstar Season 4. PHOTOS | FILE | NATION
MEDIA GROUP
By Edmund Kagire Rwanda Today
Three artistes will battle it out for honours
and cash award on August 30 when curtains fall on the Primus Guma Guma
Superstar Season 4.
Jay Polly, Dream Boys and Bruce Melodie will sing
their way to the grand prize of Rwf24 million and other spoils,
including sponsorship deal for a new album.
The grand finale which was slated for Saturday
August 9 was pushed to August 30 because of the ongoing Council of East
and Central Africa Football Association.
The three are using the opportunity to amass more
votes but what will count more will be their impression before the
judges and crowd come August 30.
After touring the country to perform on roadshows,
the 10 contestants of the annual musical show — Jay Polly, Jules
Sentore, Christopher, Young Grace, Diana Teta, Ama G the Black, Bruce
Melodie, Senderi International Hit and the two groups Dream Boys and
Active — came to learn of their fate last Saturday.
The last roadshow, which was live, took place in
the western town of Rubavu, where the top three were announced after
exhilarating performances.
All the contestants had tried to woo the judges and public but only three made the cut.
All the contestants had tried to woo the judges and public but only three made the cut.
It was difficult for some of the contestants to
accept their fate, with Christopher announcing that they unlikely to
take part in PGGSS again.
However, the seven are still in contention for fourth to 10th positions.
However, the seven are still in contention for fourth to 10th positions.
The grand prize is Rwf24 million while the
contestants who finish second and third will walk away with Rwf3.5
million and Rwf3 million respectively. The fourth-best contestant will
take home Rwf2 million while the fifth-placed will pocket Rwf2 million.
Jay Polly
Joshua Tuyishime aka Jay Polly is a hip hop star. He has tried his luck twice.
On the maiden PGGSS, which was won by Tom Close in
2011, Jay Polly had been billed among the possible winners only for him
to finish behind King James and the eventual winner Tom Close.
Being the public favourite, the decision did not
go down well with fans who pelted the stage with stones, prompting the
intervention of police during the grand finale.
In 2012, Jay Polly got to the final but faced
stiff competition from King James, who was equally popular. The rapper
emerged second.
However, that same year in the run up to the 2013
nominations, a frustrated Jay Polly was involved in a war of words with
showbiz journalists, who he described as “empty tins” and
“semi-illiterate.”
The highly publicised altercation meant that
showbiz journalists, who nominate the group of 20 from which the 10 are
picked, would deliberately punish Jay Polly by not nominating him. As a
result, he did not participate in last year’s show yet technically this
was his year
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