{"id":326489,"date":"2017-06-08T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326489"},"modified":"2017-06-08T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:20:16","slug":"m-anifest-performs-at-cannes-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=326489","title":{"rendered":"M.anifest performs at Cannes Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rap giant, Kwame Ametepe Tsikata known in showbiz as M.anifest, put up a sparkling performance at the 2017 Cannes International Music Festival in France, <strong>Citi Showbiz<\/strong> has gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Being the only African representative in the festival which spans June 6-9, 2017, he made it to the Midem Artist Accelerator.<\/p>\n<p>The Midem Artist Accelerator is an exclusive programme for artists and their entourages.<\/p>\n<p>It is designed to support managers, agents, labels and publishers as they look to grow their artists\u2019 profiles globally, as an opportunity to promote 11 International talents selected by an Artistic Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Midem Artist Accelerator 360 programme features a range of curated networking opportunities, as well as learning and coaching sessions with leaders of the international music industry.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 VGMA best rapper award winner unanimously had the nod following two fiercely contested phases of balloting; Panel selection and public voting.<\/p>\n<p>The finalists had the opportunity to play a live set at Midem and would have their song featured on Midem\u2019s communication outlets.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, he shared a video of him performing to the Midem audience:<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\" class=\" fb_reset\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-video fb_iframe_widget fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manifestations\/videos\/10155382915060789\/\" data-width=\"620\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.3\/plugins\/video.php?app_id=&amp;channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2F0F7S7QWJ0Ac.js%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df2a93c07527bc3%26domain%3Dshowbiz.citifmonline.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fshowbiz.citifmonline.com%252Ff26222dbfa20aa8%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=620&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmanifestations%2Fvideos%2F10155382915060789%2F&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey&amp;width=620\" name=\"f24b94231f18bac\" width=\"620px\" height=\"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Kwame Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian rap giant, Kwame Ametepe Tsikata known in showbiz as M.anifest, put up a sparkling performance at the 2017 Cannes International Music Festival in France, Citi Showbiz has gathered. Being the only African representative in the festival which spans June 6-9, 2017, he made it to the Midem Artist Accelerator. The Midem Artist Accelerator is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[7524,3,7984],"class_list":["post-326489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-ghana-news","tag-m-anifest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}