King Calie is the Magnum Top Performa

The inaugural Magnum Top Performa is King Calie. The online performance contest came to a close after more than three months of intense lyrical battles and creative performances. Voting for the competition closed on December 14 at midnight, after which King Calie was crowned the winner during the live show broadcasted on TVJ on December 18, said a media release. Second place went to Prince Raj.

Regional marketing manager for Magnum, Kamal Powell said the Magnum Top Performa series far exceeded everyone’s expectations, “We knew what we wanted to achieve with this competition - we wanted to unearth and hone talent and introduce them to the music and entertainment, but we never anticipated the impact it would have on the contestants or the support the brand would get. The debut of this competition has been nothing short of remarkable.”

King Calie said, “The competition was great! All the contestants did really well and I am just so happy to have come out on top. I am so overwhelmed and just grateful to Magnum Tonic Wine and Romeich for this opportunity. It was a lot of work, but it paid off in the end.”

The release said King Calie walked away with a million dollars and will have the opportunity to create a music video and a song, to be produced by Romeich Entertainment. Price Saj, received $300,000 and a feature on a compilation rhythm from Romeich Entertainment, while the other runners-up will receive $100,000 each.

Davandrey Whyte was the lucky winner of the prediction game. He received $50,000 for using the MagnumHub.tv platform to correctly guess who would reign supreme during the competition.

Music producer and artiste manager as well as partner in Magnum Top Performa, Romeich Major had nothing but well wishes for the winner, and fellow participants.

“Congratulations to King Calie our overall winner. Also hats off to all the contestants, you all showed true professionalism, creativity and lyrical skills, keep going, every one of you has what it takes to make it,” he said.

Magnum Top Performa is a lyrical face-off competition where initially 16 artistes clashed against each other every Thursday over 15 weeks, freestyling to "6 bars" on rhythms played by a host DJ.

The show had three rounds: the preliminaries, semi-finals and the finals - where the Top Performa was crowned.

Viewers can catch rebroadcasts exclusively on the brand’s website at magnumhub.tv