Ranked the 3rd largest entertainment company in Africa, Silverbird Group has indeed contributed to the growth of Nigerian entertainment industry over the past 30 years.
The company’s achievements are numerous. In the early 1980s, Silverbird promoted concerts which featured groups like Kool & The Gang, Whispers, Shalamar, Lakeside, and Nigerian artistes like Dizzy K, and Bambelly, among others. Silverbird also blazed the trail with Fantasy Night Club which hosted the live talent hunt show tagged, The Gong Show where artistes like Majek Fashek, Ras Kimono and others were discovered.
Among the achievements of Silverbird is the Rhythm FM with stations in Abuja, Port Harcourt, Awka, Benin and Jos. Also, Silverbird Television, which transmits from Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin and Jos, belongs to the group, and they have used these stations to promote and popularize Nigerian music. It was due to these laudable achievements that the Federal Government recently deemed it fit to grant the group network licences for radio and television.
Talking about shopping malls of international standard, Silverbird has blazed the trail by building the 1st family mall with the 1st Cineplex in West Africa in Lagos. The group has also just opened another family mall with the 3rd largest Cineplex in Africa with 12 screens.
At the moment, Silverbird group is building a mall in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State for the state government and a family entertainment centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State comprising a mall with a cinplex, 250-bedroom hotel, a convention centre and wet and dry parks. The group has also secured land in Abuja to build the Silverbird Stratosphere, a 60-storey building, which will be the tallest building in Africa when completed.
Now, Silverbird is celebrating all these achievements come on Saturday, November 6, 2010 at the prestigious New Convention Centre of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event will commence by 4pm.
At a media parley to announce the event, Ben Bruce says: “To mark this epoch event, we shall be featuring the international band Party on the Moon that performed at President Obama’s inauguration party and other high profile events in the United States.
They will be joined by several top Nigerian artistes and the very versatile Sharp Band. It will be an evening to remember as we chronicle hit songs in the last 30 years in Nigeria and on the international scene. There will be special tributes to our departed Nigerian artistes in the last 30 years, and also for international departed artistes including Michael Jackson, James Brown and Luther Vandross.”..
President Goodluck Johnathan will be the Special Guest of Honour while the host is Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola. Top government, business, media and entertainment personalities will grace the special event which admission is strictly by invitation. But then Nigerians at large will not miss out of the fun as the show will be transmitted live from 4pm on STV, NTA, AIT, and Channels TV.
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