Akon jets in for Airtel Music Star grand finale

Celebrated pop star AKON has arrived in the country for Airtel Trace Music Star Pan-African Grand Finale, the continent’s biggest music competition which will take place tomorrow, 28^th March 2015 at Enashipai Resort and Spa in Naivasha.

Akon has arrived with a team of 3 people that includes Devyne Stephens, a well-respected Music mogul that discovered Akon, Jay Z, P Diddy, Alicia Keys, Usher and Mariah Carey among other music heavy weights.

The winner of the first ever phone-song competition will be crowned in a spectacular Grand Finale, with Kenya being represented by Benjamin Webi who was crowned the country’s winner in January this year. Webi will battle it out for the grand prize with 12 other contestants from Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Gabon.