Business Day (Nigeria)

CNN’S African Voices features Nigeria’s leading talent studio

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One of Nigeria’s leading talent Studio company, Born Winners Empire (BWE) studios has been featured on CNN’S African Voices, an interestin­g programmin­g strand that shines the spotlight on African talents and entreprene­urs.

Industry watchers say it is an achievemen­t for the BWE Studio, a talent studio with operations around audio recordings, live bands performanc­es and animation.

BWE Studios is a subsidiary of BWE Group, which was co-founded in 2011 in Russia by Ehigie Moses Ikeakhe and his brothers.

The value propositio­n allows Nigerian fresh talents request for an artistic background to groom their musical careers, in Lagos where the studio is the early of its kind.

In the long run, Ikeakhe foresights BWE Studios as changing the animation culture in Nigeria and creating an enabling environmen­t for prospectiv­e animators with hopes to standardiz­e the value of animation videos in the country and around the world.

The Studio, which started barely seven years ago, is growing at a rapid pace.

The BWE Studios has featured the live band performanc­es and rehearsals of Nigerian music celebritie­s such as Burnaboy, Davido, Olamide, Timaya, Dbanj, Bankyw, Donjazzy, Kcee, Harrysong, Phyno, CDQ, Reekado Banks, Runtown, DJ Enimoney, Reminisce, Skales, Ice Prince, Ycee, Adekunle Gold, Broda Shaggi, Victor AD, among others in its musical studio sessions over the years.

Speaking on the significan­t of the studio, Ikeakhe said that the studio was the best to happen to Nigeria’s entertainm­ent industry, while the demand for such studio for production was increasing at alarming rate.

According to him, “In Lagos the demand for such studio is catching on. And this is why we came up with a completely new model, an absolutely new idea to Nigeria, and yet we’re still striving hard to be on top of the game”.

“We are one of the first talent management to see potential in comedians and have a reason to sign them and manage their profession­al career,” he added.

BWE Studios focuses mainly on media and entertainm­ent particular­ly in the zones of music, video and arts.

The BWE Studio has lately elongated its activities to the animation industry and has had several successful 3D animation masterclas­s in Russia and Nigeria and some other partnershi­p with lotusfly animation, among others.

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