ZB Bank & CSBC Zimbabwe Launches Unlocked Gospel Music Competition

Leading financial institution, ZB Bank has been unveiled as the sponsors of the inaugural Unlocked Gospel Music Competition.

The competition is being run by CSBC Zimbabwe, a registered Christian based organisation.

Unlocked Gospel Music Competition is an interdenominational music competition that seeks to unify churches through praise and worship revival by putting church choirs, gospel music bands and artists on one platform.

The competition will go through five stages, over a period of six months, with results being published at the end of each round. Round one kicks off on Saturday 1 June 2019 at Harare Gardens, main stage where the event is scheduled to start at 1200hrs.

Speaking at the launch Tuesday morning, Nobert Mavunga, the Group Chief Executive Officer of CSBC Zimbabwe said the competition seeks to unite people through music.

“Unlocked Musical competition is an interdenominational gospel music competition, and this day, marks the launch to celebrate vocals and acoustics of Unlocked Musical 2019. This competition was mooted in response to the socio-economic situation prevailing in our country and the need to unite the body of Christ through music,” he said.

“Anyone who is talented in music is free to join on the understanding that this is a gospel music platform. Therefore, only gospel music performances are acceptable,” Mavunga said.

ZB Financial Holdings Acting Group CEO S K Chiganze said, “As ZB Financial Holdings, we have people at heart because we know fully well that we exist and continuously thrive because of people.

As such we love to be part and parcel of the communities that we serve. For that reason, ZB sponsors a lot of community activities, including competitions as a way of giving back to the communities.

We sponsor high school business innovation competitions; in particular Emergination Africa Business Case.

I am making particular reference to this because we believe in our own local talent and would like to assist our youth to be entrepreneurial and “Achieve financial freedom, hence our pay-off line; GO BIG – Achieve your financial freedom’ which we are fulfilling by sponsoring the Unlocked Gospel Competition.”

Here is how you can enter

Those interested in taking part in the competition can register on the Unlocked Gospel Music competition’s website: www.unlockedmusical.com or ZB Website www.zb.co.zw and complete the online registration form and upload their video performance.

Or visit the Unlocked Gospel Music Facebook page @Unlockedmusical or @ZBBank facebook page and complete the registration form and again, upload their video performance.

Registration is free and it starts on the 21st of May 2019 and closes at 12 pm on the 31st of May 2019. Registration forms are available on the Unlocked Music website or can be requested via WhatsApp on +263 772 150 777.

The first round of the Unlocked 2019 will kick-off at Harare Garden’s main stage on 1 June 2019 starting at 1200-1800 hours.

Gate tickets are RTGS$10.00 per person (standard) and RTGS$50.00 for VIPs. Each live performance will be captured on video and uploaded on the unlocked website (www.unlockedmusical.com) or www.zb.co.zw and the Unlocked social media handles that include our YouTube channel (Unlocked Musical), Facebook (@unlocked musical) and Instagram as well as the ZB Social media handles Youtube, Instagram, facebook @ZBBank.

Judging Process

With the exception of round one, where the judges get to decide which performances go through to the next round, in all the other subsequent stages, members of the public will decide who will go to the next round by voting on social media platforms and voting through text messages. 

To vote, members of the public will simply like the video performance of their choice. At the end of a voting period in each round, the video entry with the highest number of likes and votes, goes to the next round.

With SMS votes, members must text the entry number assigned to the preferred video performance to SMS shortcode that will be provided. The entry numbers will also be labelled on different social media platforms.

At the end of a voting period in each round, the video entry with the highest number of likes and votes gets to be the round’s winner.

Winners’ Prizes

There is over RTGS $15,000 cash prizes to be won at the various stages of the competition.  The winner of the first round will pocket RTGS $1000.

In the second and third round, winners will walk away with RTGS$2000 and RTGS$3000 each, respectively.

The fourth round will see the winner taking home RTGS $4000 while the grand finale winner will be awarded RTGS $5000 and a recording contract.  ZB Bank is the Master key Sponsor of Unlocked 2019 Gospel Music Competition.