Nokia launches music tilt

MANILA, Philippines - Nokia with Myx and Star Records introduces Nokia Music Connection, a music competition that connects unsigned music artists to their dreams by giving them the chance of winning a recording contract and having their very own music video.

Nokia Music Connection is open to unsigned Filipino artists aged between 18 and 45, performing as a band with minimum of two and a maximum five members or as a solo artist of any genre (including those who sing covers).

Interested parties must submit a demo reel of their performance by uploading it to www.nokia.com.ph/musicconnection. Length of entry must be maximum three minutes in a popularly supported video format (.mpg, .avi, .wmv, .mov), and does not exceed 20MB in size. The performance must be original, not yet used as entry in any contest, and without inappropriate content.

Participants may also send a CD of their performance enclosed in an envelope with complete requirements to ABS-CBN Interactive Office at Ninth Floor of ELJCC Building, Mother Ignacia Ave. cor. Eugenio Lopez Drive, Diliman, Quezon City, 1103. Deadline of submission is Jan. 19, 2011.

A total of 45 participants will be chosen and notified to perform within January to March for evaluation. By batch, they will be assigned to specific areas/bars in the metro where they will perform live, two songs of their choice and will be judged by Star Records, MYX and Nokia representatives. A part of the participants’ scores will be taken from the audience’s vote via on-line or mobile.

To vote on-line, log in to www.nokia.com.ph/musicconnection, register and click on the “Vote” button. For mobile voting, key in VOTE (space) NOKIA (space) the designated keyword of the artist of your choice and send to 2331 for Globe, TM and Sun Cellular subscribers; and 231 for Smart and Talk ’N Text subscribers.

Users can vote only one artist per day between Jan. 20 and March 19, 2011. Those who voted at least once in the final phase (March 3 to 9, 2011) will be entitled to watch the grand finals.

From the area elimination, six finalists will be selected to compete in the finals. They will battle it out in a grand concert on March 19, performing one original Nokia song composed by Star Records and one performance piece.

Grand prize winner will get P200,000 cash and a record deal with Star Records, including production of their own music video.

The five runners-up will each receive P10,000 in cash and will have their own music videos to be produced by Myx. They will also win a Nokia X3 Touch and Type phone.