CAMPARI X MTV BASE
QUENCHING THE THIRST OF AFRICAN CREATIVITY Campari, MTV Base and the godfather 2Baba join forces to put Africa’s new wave of culture creators and their fans on the big stage. This is Campari x MTV Base Passion Project! Writer: Phoebe Harper
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frica is a cultural mega-force inspiring global trends with its unique flavours of music, fashion, film, art, and design. It’s also one of the biggest and most important growth markets in the world for Campari, an iconic global brand born from passion and the pursuit of celebrating and inspiring creativity, and with a long history of championing the arts. To continue to grow a loyal following for their unique red spirit with a new generation across Africa, Campari is dedicated to playing a meaningful role in investing in, supporting and promoting a new wave of African creative talent. In a collaboration with MTV Base and Afrobeats icon, 2Baba, Campari have launched “Passion Project” – a platform that enables artists to turn
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their passion all the way up by putting a spotlight on the rising stars of music, film, and style through the medium of music videos. Music videos are an essential tool for new artists to break in, and are hugely powerful for seeding new creative ideas, trends and voices in Africa for an audience that spends so much of their time streaming content online. The first Passion Project campaign launches in Nigeria, featuring worldclass African talent including Oxlade,
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T-Classic and Goodgirl LA. Each artist will produce a music video for their next big single in collaboration with a film maker and stylist that they feel are pushing the boundaries of their own craft. The talent involved in the creation of each video will also sit down in conversation with 2Baba to discuss what drives their passion and creativity in an interview series that gets under the skin of what makes these artists tick, which will be aired across West Africa on MTV Base West and online. “I’ve had a long relationship with Campari, and this is the most exciting project I have collaborated with them on. They are going in deep on this one. It’s not just about using artists to endorse their brand but really working with them and investing in their talent. We are using this project to support rising stars in taking their passion and turning it into their life’s work, into a career and at the same time putting African creativity in the spotlight,” says 2Baba.
