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| Klint..set for NEGA |
Afam Igwemba better known as Klint Da Drunk is no doubt one
of the A list comedians of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
This recognition follows his popularizing of the drunken
character and holding the audience spell bound for hours with it.
It is this talent that organisers of Nollywood Europe Golden Awards and its sister event Nollywood Film Festival Germany want to showcase for its diverse European and African audience when the event holds from 30 August to 1st September in the city of Frankfurt.
However unknown to many, Klint is an all round artiste who is not restricted to comedy as he sings, acts, dances, masters events and most of all is
a very talented fine artist and painter.
In the past, he has made an album, collaborated with others,
acted in films and still draws and paints all at same time as none of these
talents has taken the back seat for the other.
Klint had a first collaboration with Dat Nigger Raw and soon
appeared in Nite of Thousand Laughs and the rest is history.
In a chat with Newsmakers recently during one of his performances
in PH, Klint explained that his interest in the arts became noticeable while he
was a pupil in Primary school, developed further while he was in secondary
school before being greatly nurtured at Institute of Management and Technology
Enugu where he studied fine and applied arts.
“It was at IMT that comedy caught up with me when I
formulated a format to combine my gift of being able to make people laugh with
my so called drunkenness and my ability to sing into a show that fans applaud.
It was this that made fans start calling me de drunk. I thank God all the time
because that kind of madness has taken places”
Says Isaac Izoya, organiser of NEGA/NFFG, the show must go on. We have another star act Eboh Bomb set to crack ya ribs so keep the dates in your diaries".
By Fred Iwenjora
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