{"id":1231171,"date":"2022-10-21T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/epixode-defends-abiana-on-mentor-audition-incident\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T20:13:07","slug":"epixode-defends-abiana-on-mentor-audition-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/epixode-defends-abiana-on-mentor-audition-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Epixode defends Abiana on &#8216;Mentor&#8217; audition incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/epixode-1024x576.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Multi-faceted musician, Epixode. Credit: @flynimaboy \u2014 Twitter<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Ghanaian Dancehall musician and co-judge for TV3 Mentor auditions, has come to the defence of his fellow judge Abiana, who has come under a lot of criticism for how she treated a contestant on the show.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong>Doreen Avio<\/strong> on <strong>Daybreak Hitz<\/strong>, he explained that the critics are not aware of the number of hours they had to sit to select their final list of contestants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople didn\u2019t look at it from the point of view that we had to sit down the whole day, and the people who came for the audition were over 500, and we had to pick only 35.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"rv68EBdwHUY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Epixode speaks on Abiana being bashed for being &quot;rude&quot; to auditionee at Mentor | Daybreak Hitz\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rv68EBdwHUY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The \u2018Atia\u2019 hitmaker added that there were other memorable moments that weren\u2019t shared \u2014and that does not help his colleague judge Abiana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would have been nice if the media house posted a sweet side of it, just to balance it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dancehall artiste also mentioned, \u201cThere was this man who should be in his sixties, I told him that if he doesn\u2019t make it through I and my team will sponsor him, record and shoot videos for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning Ghanaian female vocalist, Abiana, topped trends with a video that captured her going hard on a young singer who auditioned for this year\u2019s music reality show, Mentor.<\/p>\n<p>Abiana, a co-judge with dancehall musician, Epixode, cut short the performance of the male singer who was exhibiting his talent in hopes of making it through the auditions stage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/epixode-defends-abiana-on-mentor-audition-incident\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-faceted musician, Epixode. Credit: @flynimaboy \u2014 Twitter Ghanaian Dancehall musician and co-judge for TV3 Mentor auditions, has come to the defence of his fellow judge Abiana, who has come under a lot of criticism for how she treated a contestant on the show. In an interview with Doreen Avio on Daybreak Hitz, he explained that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1231173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21798,27702,747,17855,3111,13607],"class_list":["post-1231171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-abiana","tag-audition","tag-defends","tag-epixode","tag-incident","tag-mentor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}