Banky W, Wizkid, Others for ‘Shuga’ Soundtrack

 

Banky, Wizkid and L-Tido

Nigerian acts Banky W and Wizkid are set to work with South African rapper L-Tido and Kenya’s Bonie from P-Unit as they write and perform the title track for the TV drama Shuga: Love, Sex, Money – the second series of the sex and relationships drama set in Kenya.

Popular Nigerian music video Clarence Peters along with the acts will fly over to Kenya next week to shoot the video.

As reported earlier, EME label mates Banky W and Wizkid are also making cameo appearances in the TV drama series alongside Nairobi-based Nigerian Ikubese Emmanuel (a.k.a. 9con) and Kenyan singer Avril.

Other artists to feature in the atmospheric soundtrack to Shuga: Love, Sex, Money include Camp Mulla, Flavour, Psquare, Wyre, STL, Madtraxx, J Martins, Sasha, Stella Mwangi and many others.

The song will debut on MTV Base (DStv Channel 322) on Tuesday, 14 February, 2012.

Shuuga Love, Sex, money was filmed on location in Nairobi and Malindi during August – September 2011.  Living with HIV, stigma, rape, high-risk sexual behaviours and multiple concurrent partners are just some of the important topics covered in Shuga.

The red carpet premiere of Shuga: Love, Sex & Money will take place in Nairobi on February  10, 2012.

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Source: thenetng.com

I AM A LOW-KEY KIND OF PERSON -- SAYS.....BEAUTY QUEEN MUNACHI ABII

After her reign in 2007 as Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, most people expected less from her. But Munachi Abii was quick to shake cynics off when she started appearing on shows and singles as a rap artiste. Munachi, who put up a stellar performance at the last Headies (Hip hop World Awards) talks about her life, career, and other issues in this chat with MERCY MICHAEL. Excerpt…

WHAT’s your background?

I think people already know about me but for those who don't know, I am from Imo State. I had my primary education in Port Harcourt and I went to Federal Government Girls College, Abuloma in Port Harcourt, same school as Agbani Darego. The school is a breeding ground for a lot of people. I went to Benson Idahosa University where I studied International Relations and Diplomacy. I did my Youth Service in Rivers State as well. I think my journey of life just revolves round Rivers State.

Having studied International Relations, why did you choose to do music?

I chose music because I like it. I like music generally, not just rap alone. Music is very personal to me.

How well did your family accept your choice of music?

I have the most amazing family. They support me in everything that I do. I like the fact that I have people who love me, care about me and want to see me succeed. I feel like the sky is just my stepping stone because my family is behind me. It's ok to do it on your own but once your family is behind you that is the best thing you can ever ask for.

From Munachi the beauty queen to Munachi the rap artiste; what is it like?

I am just going back to who I used to be before I became the queen without losing the queenly attitude, poise and glamour. I am combining everything into one person.

There is this story that you used to be a member of the group called the Ijaw Boys; how true is that?

No, it is not true. I don't know who put that information on Wikipedia. I wasn't a member of Ijaw Boys. They were just my friends and we used to rap together. The first group I actually did a song with were from Port Harcourt. A friend of mine found out that I could rap and introduced me to them and that was how I did the first thing I can call rap.

You were already rapping before you became a beauty queen. How much of rap were you doing then?

I was rapping before I wore the crown but nobody knew my name. They were already playing the song I did with Specimen A in Port Harcourt and a song I did with Terry D'Rapman just before I became queen in 2007. Just a few people knew I was the same person that was on those songs with the artistes.

Most female rappers are known to possess the attitude of a tomboy; how do you intend to blend your elegance with the rap swag?
As long as I still bear my feminine features, I think you can tell I am a female. Being a rapper doesn't mean that you have to be a gangster. You can still be nice and feminine and do what you do. I think Nicki Minaj is doing that so everybody can relate with that. I don't have to change anything about myself. People see female rappers as tomboys but not all are like that. Sometimes, we have this persona that is kind of confrontational which is why people think that we are like that. I think it does help sometimes, because of the way the music goes. You cannot rap in a ball gown.

Is your single entitled I feel Real a song about you?

It's just a feel good song. It doesn't necessarily have to be about somebody in particular.

I understand that you also write songs for other people, so I could call you Muna the rapper, the song writer and what else?

Muna the artist because I sketch; Muna the song writer; Muna the rapper; Muna can sing and act; Muna the entrepreneur as well. I am a business woman; I am a rapper, a singer, an entertainer, and a brand.

Does it bother you that for artistes to break even, to a large extent, they must show some flesh?

No, you don't have to do all those things to sell. It also depends on what you are singing about. You cannot be singing Touch My Body and you're wearing a gown. It depends on what you want to do and how you want to go about it. I have no problem with how people want to sell their music as long as they are true to themselves and they are happy with what they are doing.

As an ex-beauty queen, it is believed that everything about you must be expensive. Is that always so with you?

I am not particular about acquiring material things; I am not a vain person. I am a low-key kind of person. I don't know what people perceive beauty queens to be. We are human beings; it's just the crown and it is not as if the crown is made of real diamonds. I am not different from anybody else. I have problems too. There are days I don't have money too and there days I have.

Have you ever thought about practicing what you studied in school?

Being in show-business or being an entertainer, one way or the other is a kind of International Relations. It depends on how you approach showbiz. If you are just there to entertain, that is fine. If you are also using that to pursue other causes, better. So, either way, my course comes into play.

Who is the man in your life?

I can't tell you that.

Do you get disturbed by the fact that a lot of musicians in Nigeria do so much but get so little that they practically have to depend on shows to make something out of their music careers?

It does because I am in the industry too. I really don't want to depend on shows to make ends meet. It is a terrible thing because these past years, there were no shows that much and it is quite depressing. It is sad. I pray that more avenues will open up for us to make more money other than shows. I wish more companies will come and invest in Nigeria so we can have more endorsement deals. I pray that things will change.

What was it like growing up in Port Harcourt?

I grew up in Port Harcourt and my grandmother used to live in Imo State. So, I used to go to Imo State to stay with her. My mom used to work in a bank so she did not really have time. Most holidays like Christmas, I would go to the village or Imo State to stay with my grandmother and that was how I learnt to speak Igbo.

How do you handle the fact that people link you romantically with different guys?

To be honest with you, whatever they do in their spare time does not bother me. Everybody will always have their different opinions about you. 

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Source: Nigeriafilms.com

KEFEE'S EX HUSBAND ALEC GODWIN REMARRIES

Years back, Alec Godwin and wife,Kefee , parted ways on the ground of irreconcilable differences.

Recall it was in the news then that Alec was a wife batterer and pretty Kefee had to leave her matrimonial home to avoid being disfigured.

Their marriage lasted for three years: from 2005 to 2008.

The union had no offspring.

The latest gist now is that, Alec Godwin has got his groove back after the messy divorce and remarried.

He got married on Saturday January 28th,2012 to a beautiful damsel.

In an interview Alex Godwin granted in February 2009,he spoke about how Kefee broke his heart.

God was behind the break up. It may sound funny to people. When we heard issues, we felt it was the Devil fighting us not to get married. I guess our folks could see better than us. Our folks didn’t want the marriage to go on. We had so many challenges, even during courtship.

During and after the marriage, there were still many challenges. It was a battle all the way. We had concoctions wrapped as gifts during our wedding. It was that bad. A lot of people made it known they weren’t in support of the marriage.

I met Kefee a virgin. That was what made me loved her the more. I never saw her as an indecent girl. If I had seen her as a wayward girl, I don't think I would have married her.

She told me that the fact that she was circumcised made her not to enjoy sex. I believed her. She would cry each time we made love. She would just lie on the bed and tell me to do whatever I wanted. I couldn't be an animal, so I didn't do anything with her most of the time. It was terrible. I told her we should see the pastor or a psychologist, but she said we shouldn?t tell anybody about such things.

I tolerated this thing for a long time.

Kefee was even the one that suggested that I should indulge in extra marital affairs. I thought she was silly, but she would encourage me and tell me to go ahead and come back and give her the details.

The situation worsen on March 16, 2008, on a Sunday morning. There was a programme in Abuja and she was supposed to go and minister in church. She said there was no need for me to join her and that I should just drop her at the airport and come and pick her up when she came back. I agreed. But when she came back from Abuja, I started noticing some changes.

Kefee never liked staying at home alone. But since she came back, Kefee could afford to stay alone and she was always with her phone. It was strange. For the first time, Kefee would walk away while we are recording.

She would be away for at least an hour and nobody would know where she was. She was always telling me she was playing games on
her phone or that she was holding family meeting with her mom on the phone. I never really bought those excuses. After about two or three weeks, I had to investigate her phone. It was all about her phone. As she slept one night, I went through her inbox and the first message I saw was sent to her by a man called Uche. It reads, How can you continue to stay with a man you say you don't love?? She replied with, I have to take this step by step. We can't rush this. I promise I will get out. I love you I read a lot of things about babies in the text messages. It was obvious that she had told him we didn?t have a child. He kept telling her how he was going to give her twins from their first intercourse.

I thought the fault was from me, that probably there were some things I wasn?t doing right. I had to buy her things, take her out and do all manner of things to rekindle my love. I didn't even raise the texts I read. I pretended as if I didn't know about it. I made her assure me of her love and she did. I checked her phone again the third day and the guy was telling her he was coming to Lagos and he would make her feel like a real woman. I knew that if I didn't speak out, she might sneak out to meet him. I called her and told her I already knew what was going on. I thought she would apologise, but she never said anything. By the time she said something after a long silence, she said we had to forget about it. I was shocked. She told me that for her to feel something for the guy meant that it couldn't have been love that we had. Honestly, I started begging her, but she said it was over. I told her to take her time before she took any decision. She was still communicating with the guy and there was nothing I could do about it. If I got really angry and shouted, she would tell me that if I wanted, she would leave the house immediately.

I have never laid my hands on Kefee. Probably she wanted me to, but I never did. The closest I got to doing so was on the day she turned me down with a lot of hurtful words like you are not a man. I came to the siting room and started playing a video game on my Play Station. She came into the sitting room, took the remote control and changed the channel, saying she wanted to watch something more serious. I took the remote control and changed the channel back. Then she too changed it and held unto the remote control. I had to get up to collect the remote control from her. In the process, I twisted her arm until she let go of the remote control. That was the closest I came to beating her.

There was a text the guy sent to her and he told her that they should forget about the relationship if she wasn't ready to see him. She replied that she was going to come and see him first thing the next morning. I tried stopping her from going but somehow, she went.

When she came back, I noticed she was always scratching her private part and all that, and she would go to the pharmacy to buy drugs. I checked her phone again and read that she was accusing the guy of giving her STD and he was denying it.

I told her I knew what was going on and that she should stop taking drugs that she knew nothing about and go to the hospital and treat herself. I was the one that took her to the hospital.

In Kefee's response then,she brought up the issue of Alex's infidelity, bed wetting and asking for anal sex which she refused

ALEC AND KEFEE

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Source: Nigeriafilms.com

OMOTOLA OPENS UP ON HOW SHE MANAGE SUCESSFUL CAREER + RIVALRY WITHIN THE INDUSTRY

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde a.k.a Omosexy is one person who is a go-getter.shes a fulfilled actress,musician, mother of four lovely children and wife to a man she fondly calls 'honeyboy'.

The outgone year was a very good one for the sexy actress as 2011 saw her busys taking part in 5 major movie projects-2 at the beginning of the year and 3 towards the last months.She also clinched a few deals,one of which is becoming an Ambassador for Amnesty International.

In a recent interview,the talented actress opens up on how she cope with success, her winning ways,and other issues.


 

The truth of the matter is that I really don’t make much of it.All I do is to live with it day-by-day.I am aware of it.And I am aware of the responsibility that comes with it.But nothing that I can’t handle.I have been quite lucky.I am careful with the responsibility that comes with it.

But personally as Omotola,I am not someone who is too inclined to pleasing people.

I live my own life.I believe in my convictions.And I believe in what I believe in.And in the long run they always vindicate me.I don’t live my life to please anybody,this is me.My favourite saying is that what you see is what you get.I will never say anything behind you that I cannot say in front of you.That is it for me,really.

Asked,from time to time,we get to read that Omotola and this actress don’t get along.How do you cope with all these rivalry within the industry; I find it very funny so much so that I laugh at it.I understand it.

Its never going to go away,people comparing one actress to another.The length to which people take it is what I find hilarious.It is natural.

In life,people have people they get along with.You may just not get along with your contemporaries.Its the fact of life.

Personally,I am not very close to so many people not because of work or rivalry,but because I am just removed from the every day life they live.

Number one,I live far away.Number two,I didn’t grow up making friends with everybody around me.You have to understand my upbringing for you to understand my life.

I am not that much of a social being.I am boring.I am not a girls girl.I am not a party party person.

I am not the kind of girl you will call and say oh,there is this new dress,there is this shoe.I usually don’t have those kinds of conversations,really I talk properties.So,when someone is talking about this new Channel Bag,I am thinking about this property I saw somewhere that I want to buy.

So how do we really want to relate,so,there are so many differences.Otherwise,when when we see we have a ball.

Omotola does not have the time to start beefing someone who is my colleague about whether she is better than me or I am better than her.I don’t engage in those issues.

I don’t have best friends.I just have people I like in the industry and who I can say I know.When I am on set I get along with everybody.I am a very chatty person.

Competition in the movie industry it’s a good thing.I love competition.But I only like it when its healthy,when it becomes unhealthy,then I really start to detest it,I loathe it and I run away from it.

I like competition because it allows you grow.Imagine if it was only Omotola that was acting,really,it will be boring.There is the need for a new blood here and there,a new person to jab you here and there.If its healthy,its actually wonderful and it helps everybody to be better.Anybody who does not like competition is evil.Competition when it is healthy creates better service.

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Source: Nigeriafilms.com