A Review of Elvira Chioma Onyemegbulem’s Performance at the Annual Welsh Multicultural Christmas Concert 2025.

By Emmanuel Esomnofu

Elvira Chioma Onyemegbulem’s appearance on the stage of National Waterfront Museum’s Ocean Room brought a notable shift to the ambience of the arena. From her entry to composure, stage performance to how she engaged her audience; Elvira is certainly a Singer to anticipate. Her first notes rendered positions and maintains the vacation Concert atmosphere of the gathering. Little wonder everyone was paying attention. As characteristic of her, Elvira lit a warmth in the room where everyone focused on her.

The night, like every other previous nights of the event was comprehensively about celebrating the diversity of several musical backgrounds and yes, Elvira’s performance did a justice and appraisal to this purpose. She took control with a high and deep sense of musical arrangements. Notably was her pitch and how she delved through changing keys with innate ease. She seamlessly matched technical skills and emotion in every line.

In her version of John William’s classic, “Somewhere in My Memory” that might, she connected hearts on the set. She excelled in bringing the song’s reminiscent aura so adorably. Lines such as “Candles on the Window” as well as “Shadows painting the ceiling” from the original lyrics hit differently with a kind of soft and unambiguous clarity. She sang in such a way that she gave a pace for the image in each line to be imagined and sink. Whenever she sang that line, “Somewhere in my memory”, it gave a chorus-like call and even more like a shared feeling; something everyone in the arrangements of the room would sit with for a memorable moment.

Elvira did not sing the song to make a show off campaign of her voice, although she has got a good voice that compels. She rather took caution to stay connected to the music and flow. One could readily imagine she had successfully made the song hers. She was so intentional and deliberate in her singing that it was openly glaring she kept a conversation with the lyrics with a conveyance sense of being fully present in the music and real show off artistic maturity.

The audience gave an equal feeling to the performance. As long as Elvira Chioma Onyemegbulem held the microphone, the room remained quiet and quieter. People engagd so much that each person longged for the high notes to the extent that the gaps between the lines felt important, as though as everyone depended on it. Before Elvira could finish delivering her performance, the applause sounded thunderously, quick and would not stop so soon. That kind of applause was deserving for someone who sang to connect.

That this was not Elvira’s first time at the Annual concert confirmed her reputation. But beyond that she accompanied her perfornce with more confidence and calm. She controlled the stage physical presence with a richer voice sound. It goes without saying that Elvira there, was a show runner.
In a concert determined to celebrate human musical diversities and shared memories, Elvira’s performance did the magic. She did not unessarily fill the room with sound, she launched an atmosphere where the trio of music, memory and audience met for a moment. Elvira Chioma Onyemegbulem would not remain a Guest Singer in this event any longer, she is definitely becoming one of the defining voices in UK’S cultural scene.