Showing posts with label GIST. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GIST. Show all posts
Saturday, November 25, 2017
EZEOMOH the CEO at NEW MONUMENT CREATION Welcomes New Baby #CHIZARAM #ZARABABE #QueenEsther @st_ezeugotunes #Ezeugomoh
Imo state well known Singer, EZEOMOH the CEO at NEW MONUMENT CREATION gave his first Daughter name today, he says her name is "CHIZARAM" while the Mum "Queen Esther" call her "ZARA BABE" what a pet name.
Monday, November 20, 2017
WATCH OUT FOR THE 2ND EDITION OF THE MISS AFRICA 2017 BEAUTY PAGEANT HOLDING 27TH DECEMBER, EVE OF CARNIVAL CALABAR 2017 WITH THE THEME #MIGRATION
Introducing
the 2nd Edition of #MissAfrica2017 beauty pageant hosted in the
beautiful city of Calabar Cross River State, holding at The prestigious
Calabar International Convention Center(CICC) on December 27th 2017 Eve
to Carnival Calabar, Africa’s biggest street party with the theme
#MIGRATION
30 participants across Africa will compete for the prestigious crown, 50,000 US dollars and a brand new SUV by combining beauty and brains to propose new ways to reduce the effect of climate change and migration on the environment.
30 participants across Africa will compete for the prestigious crown, 50,000 US dollars and a brand new SUV by combining beauty and brains to propose new ways to reduce the effect of climate change and migration on the environment.
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
GETTING PMAN TO WORK FOR ARTISTES
PRETTY OKAFOR
Pretty Okafor, President, Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigerian (PMAN), says he is on the verge of unlocking a gold mine of wealth for Nigerian musicians; and indeed anyone in the creative industry, through a scheme that ensures automatic payment when their work is used. He spoke with Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Yinka Olatunbosun
Most people think he goes by his stage name everywhere. Unknown to them, Pretty is actually his real name. It was not easy to find an English equivalent of the Igbo version, Mmachukwu (the beauty of God). Beauty would have sufficed, but his mother thought it would point to a woman. She opted for Pretty, which she considered modest and not capable of raising wrong insinuations. Pretty Okafor and his music partner, Junior who were known as Junior and Pretty would go on to make modest achievements on the Nigerian entertainment scene, becoming one of the pioneer rap artistes in Nigeria with the era-shaping album, ‘Monica’. They set the pace in comical rap artistry but the laughter seemed to have ended for their numerous fans when Junior passed on. Although, Junior’s demise set Pretty back emotionally, a great deal, he pulled himself back from the brink to pursue a full and engaging life.
Growing up with Junior, his untimely exit left a vacuum that is yet to be filled. Pretty became uncomfortable with the people they were working with and the society at large. He couldn’t bring himself to drop an album.
Being an introvert, every time he tried to sing in a studio, he felt something was not right. Somehow, he knew he had to go out to meet people. He could not remain a recluse forever. He has since resolved to go back to the studio and do a lot of remixes of the older songs and bar code them. He plans to get some younger artistes to jump on some songs, in order to breathe fresh air into them.
Meanwhile, Pretty went on to a very exhilarating period in the corporate event promotion world. Following his partner’s death, he resigned his appointment from the company where he was the operations manager. He was not married at the time, but he felt he had to take care of his late friend’s wife and three children. He set up shop and launched himself into business. Today, he runs three successful companies under the name, Pretty Boy Entertainment, including one of the biggest sound system procurement and leasing companies, an events company and a logistics company. From producing shows and concerts, his colleagues sort him out and persuaded him to assume leadership of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN).
That may seem ironical as he hadn’t physically performed on stage since Junior died. His performance only took a geographical turn-backstage, making behind- the- scenes impacts.
Since he came on board as PMAN President, Pretty pursued a single agendum. To him, nothing else matters if a musician is not able to create sustainable wealth from his works. In the past few years, he has devoted himself to a campaign to create structures that will transform the living condition of Nigerian artistes. From a study that he commissioned a consortium of Nigerian companies, it was discovered that Nigerian music is number one in Africa and number three in the world. Nigerian entertainment industry is worth about N9 billion.
That mouth-watering revelation was received when we met Pretty, tucked in a corner of a fast food outlet along the well-lit aisle inside the Ikeja City Mall.
“I travelled to Barbados as well as Trinidad and Tobago and I found out that they buy Nigerian music a lot. Their government collects taxes on the Nigerian music that the citizens buy. But in Nigeria, our government does not collect tax or royalty because they don’t know how to go about it.”
A widely travelled person, Pretty has witnessed first-hand, how the economy of certain countries abroad are sustained through the entertainment industry. Today, many free download sites are forced to shut down or redirect their culprits to another site where viruses accompany illegal downloads. In the end, it is more economical to purchase the creative works than to steal them.
It set him thinking this can be replicated in Nigeria. As soon as the opportunity came through his elevation as President of PMAN, he began to engage relevant corporate bodies with several convincing presentations loaded with facts and figures. It took repeated knocking on their doors. And Pretty preaches it as a gospel. Thankfully, a lot of them have started paying attention to the industry. “The statistics and the research we did are accurate.
We can actually raise between N1516 billion every year. There will be a lot of tax coming to the federal and state governments. The banks got excited; the corporate organizations got excited and the research organizations too got involved and they realized that there hasn’t been any monitoring scheme in place. I will give you an example. In 2015, I said it on Channels Television that Nigeria has already gone into recession. It was in the last quarter of 2016 that government admitted that we are in recession. The only way that the country can get out of recession is when we put in place and operate a credible structure that promotes and sustains a creative economy. I am referring to all the royalties earned from intellectual property.”
Though we were tucked into a corner with Pretty, that was not the reason we were not overwhelmed by excited fans. Pretty may be the arrowhead of the musicians’ body in Nigeria, but his face is likely to be lost in a crowd. To be sure, he enjoys the obscurity. Often, he uses himself as an example in his homily as he goes around the country, canvassing support from musicians for the wealth creation cum welfare scheme that would not only take them out of the woods, but ensure they live a modest live till they pass. “The active live of a musician when he is famous and much sort after is about four years. After that, society is hungry and ready for the next star who will create a new round of excitement.
This is what I have been telling my colleagues. Remember that PMAN had been moribund for over 15 years before we became executives. I had to do a lot of work, a lot of mass mobilization, campaign and communication to redirect the association, corporate bodies and individual musicians. You are working with artistes who are spread across the country in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, there is a lot of funding needed to reach five million members. We have talked about how to use the biometrics card to get loan. Not up to one thousand artistes have the biometrics card because we are yet to launch it. It was released last year, in the first quarter. All PMAN executives have the card. We had it before the last PMAN elections. It was because of this work that I was voted to remain as PMAN president. I wasn’t going to come back. I wanted to face my business.
I own a marketing communications firm, events technology firm and an event leasing firm. I am doing a whole lot in entertainment. We are working with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Interbank Settlement
System, Heritage Bank, Union Bank, Airtel and Hogg Robinson. If any artiste is critically ill, he can be airborne within 12 hours to any part of the world. The family of the ailing artist also gets N5million
from Hogg Robinson. We started this in 2014. We don’t have to go begging for anyone to contribute for an artiste who is ill.”
“Luckily for us, the younger generation of artistes have bought into the concept and it has become a lifestyle. We made the structure look like the normal day-to-day activity. It is something that can be done using a smart-phone. It is nothing extraordinary. You can do the registration using your smart-phone. You can go to the bank to make your payment and you can also pay through your phone. You will automatically get all your benefits. Around the world, we have the same structure running. It includes a pension plan, welfare, life insurance, bar coding and encoding of IP. As persons in the creative industry, we are known as the informal sector by the banks.
Because of this, we don’t have access to funding. But the card we have introduced is connected to your BVN, that is all your accounts, it is your collateral to have access to bank funding. A lot of people say this is Nigeria, it is never going to work. I don’t believe that. It is working. Some artistes have been getting their royalty. What we have done is to globalize the creative industry in Nigeria. If you go to South Africa, all their CDs are bar coded. But you can never see any CD that is bar coded in Nigeria.”
Much of what he is doing as President of PMAN comes from his ability to stay the course in the music industry. “I am active. I have been a producer of concerts. I have been producing road shows. I have not been on stage since Junior died 12 years ago. I have been interested in the welfare of artistes long before I stopped performing. When Junior was alive, we talked about getting our career back on track.
When we released ‘Monica’, our first album, we didn’t get our royalties from Premier Music. That was when Junior and I would go on the streets and chase pirates. We would take our works from them. We would go to Alaba Market. We were frustrating them. We made money from concerts and events management. We performed in South Africa and UK with the help of Red14. They were the ones managing the Benson and Hedges Golden Tones Concert.”
Pretty is not at all perturbed by the naivety of artistes who voluntarily release their music for free download. “Once your songs are automatically bar coded and encoded, it goes viral. There’s a key on it so every time it is downloaded, you will get paid. Some pirates don’t want the structure that can reorganize the industry to work.”
Such retrogressive attitudes are not to be found only among pirates only. Unfortunately, some of his colleagues are hell bent on throwing cogs in the wheel of progress. This explains why PMAN is permanently at war with itself. “I think as musicians, we are stubborn in nature; coupled with poverty, because no PMAN member had received royalties in the past 35 years of PMAN’s existence. They don’t have any other means of survival. PMAN was like a means to an end. Whatever they got were not proper royalties. That is not what can make an artiste become a billionaire. We are talking about getting money from sale of creative works; the number of times the album is sold and the copies sold worldwide. The older ones don’t understand what we are trying to do.
You can put a call to Charly Boy and Daniel Wilson, they will understand because they are enlightened. But the much older ones don’t understand. They want a union that can move from table-to-table, begging for them. That is not the kind of association I want to run. I want to run the kind of standard where musicians can afford a house on Banana Island.”
Pretty does not share the view that the exit of international recording companies from Nigeria in the 90s is the reason for mainstream piracy. “They left because they couldn’t make return on investment and the structure had become so porous. They left because Nigerians started buying on the streets instead of buying from the shops. Pirates chased them away since they couldn’t recoup the money invested in the musicians. They were not making sales anymore. This same structure that we are talking about is the only thing that can bring them back. You can track and collate sales with this new system of bar coding. We are one of the biggest entertainment industry in the world because our brand of music is played around the world.”
One gridlock that Pretty has to deal with is the general apathy of artistes to this new structure. Groomed under the regime of piracy, many artistes still believe that the system will fail. For Pretty, it is never-say- never for a system that will save artistes from being eternally oblivious to their album sales and end the shame of perpetual begging for huge medical expenses from the general public. When you read about well-accomplished musicians in other climes, their album sales and ratings are essential part of their history. In Nigeria, not even the top flying artistes have proper documentation of their album sales. But with this technologically-enabled tracking system, it is goodbye to the era of poor musicians and family.
With Pretty’s wealth creation and welfare campaign, even a dead artiste is assured his due.
Pretty Okafor, President, Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigerian (PMAN), says he is on the verge of unlocking a gold mine of wealth for Nigerian musicians; and indeed anyone in the creative industry, through a scheme that ensures automatic payment when their work is used. He spoke with Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Yinka Olatunbosun
Most people think he goes by his stage name everywhere. Unknown to them, Pretty is actually his real name. It was not easy to find an English equivalent of the Igbo version, Mmachukwu (the beauty of God). Beauty would have sufficed, but his mother thought it would point to a woman. She opted for Pretty, which she considered modest and not capable of raising wrong insinuations. Pretty Okafor and his music partner, Junior who were known as Junior and Pretty would go on to make modest achievements on the Nigerian entertainment scene, becoming one of the pioneer rap artistes in Nigeria with the era-shaping album, ‘Monica’. They set the pace in comical rap artistry but the laughter seemed to have ended for their numerous fans when Junior passed on. Although, Junior’s demise set Pretty back emotionally, a great deal, he pulled himself back from the brink to pursue a full and engaging life.
Growing up with Junior, his untimely exit left a vacuum that is yet to be filled. Pretty became uncomfortable with the people they were working with and the society at large. He couldn’t bring himself to drop an album.
Being an introvert, every time he tried to sing in a studio, he felt something was not right. Somehow, he knew he had to go out to meet people. He could not remain a recluse forever. He has since resolved to go back to the studio and do a lot of remixes of the older songs and bar code them. He plans to get some younger artistes to jump on some songs, in order to breathe fresh air into them.
Meanwhile, Pretty went on to a very exhilarating period in the corporate event promotion world. Following his partner’s death, he resigned his appointment from the company where he was the operations manager. He was not married at the time, but he felt he had to take care of his late friend’s wife and three children. He set up shop and launched himself into business. Today, he runs three successful companies under the name, Pretty Boy Entertainment, including one of the biggest sound system procurement and leasing companies, an events company and a logistics company. From producing shows and concerts, his colleagues sort him out and persuaded him to assume leadership of the Performing Musicians Employers Association of Nigeria (PMAN).
That may seem ironical as he hadn’t physically performed on stage since Junior died. His performance only took a geographical turn-backstage, making behind- the- scenes impacts.
Since he came on board as PMAN President, Pretty pursued a single agendum. To him, nothing else matters if a musician is not able to create sustainable wealth from his works. In the past few years, he has devoted himself to a campaign to create structures that will transform the living condition of Nigerian artistes. From a study that he commissioned a consortium of Nigerian companies, it was discovered that Nigerian music is number one in Africa and number three in the world. Nigerian entertainment industry is worth about N9 billion.
That mouth-watering revelation was received when we met Pretty, tucked in a corner of a fast food outlet along the well-lit aisle inside the Ikeja City Mall.
“I travelled to Barbados as well as Trinidad and Tobago and I found out that they buy Nigerian music a lot. Their government collects taxes on the Nigerian music that the citizens buy. But in Nigeria, our government does not collect tax or royalty because they don’t know how to go about it.”
A widely travelled person, Pretty has witnessed first-hand, how the economy of certain countries abroad are sustained through the entertainment industry. Today, many free download sites are forced to shut down or redirect their culprits to another site where viruses accompany illegal downloads. In the end, it is more economical to purchase the creative works than to steal them.
It set him thinking this can be replicated in Nigeria. As soon as the opportunity came through his elevation as President of PMAN, he began to engage relevant corporate bodies with several convincing presentations loaded with facts and figures. It took repeated knocking on their doors. And Pretty preaches it as a gospel. Thankfully, a lot of them have started paying attention to the industry. “The statistics and the research we did are accurate.
We can actually raise between N1516 billion every year. There will be a lot of tax coming to the federal and state governments. The banks got excited; the corporate organizations got excited and the research organizations too got involved and they realized that there hasn’t been any monitoring scheme in place. I will give you an example. In 2015, I said it on Channels Television that Nigeria has already gone into recession. It was in the last quarter of 2016 that government admitted that we are in recession. The only way that the country can get out of recession is when we put in place and operate a credible structure that promotes and sustains a creative economy. I am referring to all the royalties earned from intellectual property.”
Though we were tucked into a corner with Pretty, that was not the reason we were not overwhelmed by excited fans. Pretty may be the arrowhead of the musicians’ body in Nigeria, but his face is likely to be lost in a crowd. To be sure, he enjoys the obscurity. Often, he uses himself as an example in his homily as he goes around the country, canvassing support from musicians for the wealth creation cum welfare scheme that would not only take them out of the woods, but ensure they live a modest live till they pass. “The active live of a musician when he is famous and much sort after is about four years. After that, society is hungry and ready for the next star who will create a new round of excitement.
This is what I have been telling my colleagues. Remember that PMAN had been moribund for over 15 years before we became executives. I had to do a lot of work, a lot of mass mobilization, campaign and communication to redirect the association, corporate bodies and individual musicians. You are working with artistes who are spread across the country in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, there is a lot of funding needed to reach five million members. We have talked about how to use the biometrics card to get loan. Not up to one thousand artistes have the biometrics card because we are yet to launch it. It was released last year, in the first quarter. All PMAN executives have the card. We had it before the last PMAN elections. It was because of this work that I was voted to remain as PMAN president. I wasn’t going to come back. I wanted to face my business.
I own a marketing communications firm, events technology firm and an event leasing firm. I am doing a whole lot in entertainment. We are working with the Central Bank of Nigeria, Nigeria Interbank Settlement
System, Heritage Bank, Union Bank, Airtel and Hogg Robinson. If any artiste is critically ill, he can be airborne within 12 hours to any part of the world. The family of the ailing artist also gets N5million
from Hogg Robinson. We started this in 2014. We don’t have to go begging for anyone to contribute for an artiste who is ill.”
“Luckily for us, the younger generation of artistes have bought into the concept and it has become a lifestyle. We made the structure look like the normal day-to-day activity. It is something that can be done using a smart-phone. It is nothing extraordinary. You can do the registration using your smart-phone. You can go to the bank to make your payment and you can also pay through your phone. You will automatically get all your benefits. Around the world, we have the same structure running. It includes a pension plan, welfare, life insurance, bar coding and encoding of IP. As persons in the creative industry, we are known as the informal sector by the banks.
Because of this, we don’t have access to funding. But the card we have introduced is connected to your BVN, that is all your accounts, it is your collateral to have access to bank funding. A lot of people say this is Nigeria, it is never going to work. I don’t believe that. It is working. Some artistes have been getting their royalty. What we have done is to globalize the creative industry in Nigeria. If you go to South Africa, all their CDs are bar coded. But you can never see any CD that is bar coded in Nigeria.”
Much of what he is doing as President of PMAN comes from his ability to stay the course in the music industry. “I am active. I have been a producer of concerts. I have been producing road shows. I have not been on stage since Junior died 12 years ago. I have been interested in the welfare of artistes long before I stopped performing. When Junior was alive, we talked about getting our career back on track.
When we released ‘Monica’, our first album, we didn’t get our royalties from Premier Music. That was when Junior and I would go on the streets and chase pirates. We would take our works from them. We would go to Alaba Market. We were frustrating them. We made money from concerts and events management. We performed in South Africa and UK with the help of Red14. They were the ones managing the Benson and Hedges Golden Tones Concert.”
Pretty is not at all perturbed by the naivety of artistes who voluntarily release their music for free download. “Once your songs are automatically bar coded and encoded, it goes viral. There’s a key on it so every time it is downloaded, you will get paid. Some pirates don’t want the structure that can reorganize the industry to work.”
Such retrogressive attitudes are not to be found only among pirates only. Unfortunately, some of his colleagues are hell bent on throwing cogs in the wheel of progress. This explains why PMAN is permanently at war with itself. “I think as musicians, we are stubborn in nature; coupled with poverty, because no PMAN member had received royalties in the past 35 years of PMAN’s existence. They don’t have any other means of survival. PMAN was like a means to an end. Whatever they got were not proper royalties. That is not what can make an artiste become a billionaire. We are talking about getting money from sale of creative works; the number of times the album is sold and the copies sold worldwide. The older ones don’t understand what we are trying to do.
You can put a call to Charly Boy and Daniel Wilson, they will understand because they are enlightened. But the much older ones don’t understand. They want a union that can move from table-to-table, begging for them. That is not the kind of association I want to run. I want to run the kind of standard where musicians can afford a house on Banana Island.”
Pretty does not share the view that the exit of international recording companies from Nigeria in the 90s is the reason for mainstream piracy. “They left because they couldn’t make return on investment and the structure had become so porous. They left because Nigerians started buying on the streets instead of buying from the shops. Pirates chased them away since they couldn’t recoup the money invested in the musicians. They were not making sales anymore. This same structure that we are talking about is the only thing that can bring them back. You can track and collate sales with this new system of bar coding. We are one of the biggest entertainment industry in the world because our brand of music is played around the world.”
One gridlock that Pretty has to deal with is the general apathy of artistes to this new structure. Groomed under the regime of piracy, many artistes still believe that the system will fail. For Pretty, it is never-say- never for a system that will save artistes from being eternally oblivious to their album sales and end the shame of perpetual begging for huge medical expenses from the general public. When you read about well-accomplished musicians in other climes, their album sales and ratings are essential part of their history. In Nigeria, not even the top flying artistes have proper documentation of their album sales. But with this technologically-enabled tracking system, it is goodbye to the era of poor musicians and family.
With Pretty’s wealth creation and welfare campaign, even a dead artiste is assured his due.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Bixbeat @BixBEAT Launches Online Platform For Artistes, DJs, Bloggers, Music Producers and Video Directors
Bixbeat Launches Online Platform For Artistes, DJs, Bloggers, Music Video Directors and Music Producers
The Nigerian Music and Entertainment industry which is reputed to be one of the country's topmost exports has been witnessing unprecedented attention and milestones lately. The latest entrant into this multi-billion naira industry is a newly launched online music distribution platform that is taking the industry by storm. Meet BixBeat.com.
BixBeat is the latest effort by the prolific Sigma Entertainment, a successful record label and entertainment company, which is responsible for chart-topping artistes like SPIZER, the popular 'Ewo ni Tie' crooner, amongst others.
BixBeat's mission in the industry is to be the one-stop and number one platform for everything music for Nigerians home and abroad, and African music fans worldwide. The platform also seeks to revolutionize the way Nigerians access the music of their favorite artistes as well as upcoming and future hit-makers via the most cutting edge music distribution experience obtainable to Nigerians and the World at large. But that's not all. On BixBeat.com, virtually every participant in the overall music value chain are not left out. And that includes Artistes, Producers, DJs, and Music Video Directors, who for the first time now have a platform tailored just for them to further express their craft and interact with their teeming fans.
On BixBeat.com, Artistes, Producers, DJs and Music Video Directors now have the chance to upload and distribute their music contents, including videos -- for FREE -- while music lovers and fans also will have unlimited access to stream and download thousands of chart-topping hits from their favorite artistes from all genres of Nigerian and foreign popular music.
What are you waiting for? Whether you're a music lover, established or upcoming Artiste, DJ, Producer, Music Video Director and Record Label, even Bloggers find it a useful tool to host there music and videos on BixBeat.com because of its profound "play counter and download counter" join in the fun today and experience the next level of Nigerian Music and Entertainment, served A La Carte, and brought to you by none other than Sigma Entertainment.
Connect with BixBeat:
Twitter: @BixBEAT
Instagram: @BixBeat
Web: www.BixBeat.com
The Nigerian Music and Entertainment industry which is reputed to be one of the country's topmost exports has been witnessing unprecedented attention and milestones lately. The latest entrant into this multi-billion naira industry is a newly launched online music distribution platform that is taking the industry by storm. Meet BixBeat.com.
BixBeat is the latest effort by the prolific Sigma Entertainment, a successful record label and entertainment company, which is responsible for chart-topping artistes like SPIZER, the popular 'Ewo ni Tie' crooner, amongst others.
BixBeat's mission in the industry is to be the one-stop and number one platform for everything music for Nigerians home and abroad, and African music fans worldwide. The platform also seeks to revolutionize the way Nigerians access the music of their favorite artistes as well as upcoming and future hit-makers via the most cutting edge music distribution experience obtainable to Nigerians and the World at large. But that's not all. On BixBeat.com, virtually every participant in the overall music value chain are not left out. And that includes Artistes, Producers, DJs, and Music Video Directors, who for the first time now have a platform tailored just for them to further express their craft and interact with their teeming fans.
On BixBeat.com, Artistes, Producers, DJs and Music Video Directors now have the chance to upload and distribute their music contents, including videos -- for FREE -- while music lovers and fans also will have unlimited access to stream and download thousands of chart-topping hits from their favorite artistes from all genres of Nigerian and foreign popular music.
What are you waiting for? Whether you're a music lover, established or upcoming Artiste, DJ, Producer, Music Video Director and Record Label, even Bloggers find it a useful tool to host there music and videos on BixBeat.com because of its profound "play counter and download counter" join in the fun today and experience the next level of Nigerian Music and Entertainment, served A La Carte, and brought to you by none other than Sigma Entertainment.
Connect with BixBeat:
Twitter: @BixBEAT
Instagram: @BixBeat
Web: www.BixBeat.com
Friday, August 12, 2016
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Thursday, August 4, 2016
Exclusive Interview » PROJECT FAME HERBALIST @KingPhillipiano FIRED BACK AT PROJECT FAME JUDGES!
Q: CAN WE MEET YOU?
A: My name is Awopeju Olaniyi Phillips the already famous herbalist musician on project fame @KingPhillipiano.
Q: WHAT MAKES YOU THINK YOU ARE FAMOUS ALREADY?
A: You can easily see the visibility of my brand whenever I sing or even walking on the street people wants to know who I am, and if you check every web on social media now #HERBALISTBATTLEFORFAME is really trending so it’s a success already and even, the battle for fame has been won.
Q: WE SAW THE AUDITION BUT WHY DID THE JUDGES DECIDED NOT TO SAY YES OR NO?
A: It is so unfortunate, and my fans were so disappointed because I have a big brand to project MTN, but the project fame judges, judged out of fear which makes them gave me an inconclusive judgment by not specifying Yes or No on my own audition. But am still expectant in receiving a call back from them, it could be for other advertising project because the top 24 contestant has already been chosen. I want to assure all my fans that they will surely get the best from me when it comes to meaningful music that will impact lives positively, It is not a new thing to me because people like to discriminate against traditionalist while we forgot our root as an African, for example how will you expect a gospel singer like shola Allison to shortlist a traditionalist and a self-proclaim herbalist? She will find one way or the other to protect her name, of which I am the greatest brand in this PROJECT FAME SEASON 9 if you watch that audition you will see the visibility of my Afrocentric hip-hop Fuji brand which is highly motivational and also represent the diversity of the unity in African music. The connection of the message in my music with the judges is so strong so I don’t deserve to be cheated or robbed like that because of my religion.
Q: IF YOU WERE IN THE ACADEMY WHAT WILL BE YOUR LOGIC TO EXCEL AMONG THOSE POWERFUL SINGERS?
A: I am a diversified artiste you can’t really predict what I can do, If I were in that academy, PROJECT FAME 9 would have gone viral internationally because of my brand. People love to watch controversial contents and want to see how the proclaimed herbalist wants to meet up at the academy but it’s all good I still get the fame because its project fame. Thumbs up to MTN, ULTIMA STUDIO, LINDA IKEJI, SSMG PROMOTIONS AND OTHER BLOGGERS for the publicity am a star already, the fame I was battling for has come.
Q: ARE YOU TRULY AN HERBALIST OR A MUSICIAN OR IS IT THE TWO YOU DO TOGETHER? OR IS IT THE PROJECT FAME THAT LABELS YOU AS AN HERBALIST?
A: Whatever you see me doing either in my video or live is real, I am a herbal doctor and spiritualist and no matter how many power i have in spite of herbalism and Spirituality i can’t live without my music, my music and me always. Also i want you guys to watch out for my music you can also Google my songs online. I am KING PHILLIPIANO OLOBAMETA A.K.A THE (ORACLE ) The already famous herbalist on PROJECT FAME am famous already.
Q: WE NOW UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE GOOD IN BOTH HERBAL RESEARCH AND MUSIC, BUT HOW WILL YOU MANAGE THE TWO TOGETHER IF ANY RECORD LABEL OR ORGANIZATION WANTS TO GIVE YOU A DEAL BECAUSE OF THIS YOUR PECULIAR AND INCOMPARABLE BRAND?
A: Everything is all about leveraging I have people running my herbal company as the C.E.O you can’t be everywhere like MTN both are going together smoothly even the music is projecting my herbal business, it helps a lot in my marketing strategy. I use my music to market my product and also to project my brand to the world.
Q: CAN WE KNOW ABOUT YOUR PRODUCTS AND THEIR EFFICACY?
A: Thank you very much for your question, I have a product line called GBOLA HERBAL DRINK which works for pile and sexually transmitted infections, In fact it’s a NATIVE ANTIBIOTIC,I also have BLACK RUDI which is a non-alcoholic herbal drink for pile and blood purification. I also treat diabetics, strokes, staphylococcus, spiritual attack etc. My fibroid therapy is 12 days with no SIDE EFFECT AND NO REGROW I have a vast experience in herbalism.
Q: FOR EXAMPLE IF MTN WANT TO BREAK THE RECORD OF BEEN THE FIRST ORGANIZATION TO SIGN A FAMOUS HERBALIST AND MUSICIAN LIKE YOU AS A BRAND AMBASSADOR ARE YOU WILLING TO DROP MUSIC FOR HERBAL RESEARCH OR DROP HERBAL RESEARCH FOR MUSIC?
A: Like I told you earlier both complement each other My herbal business does not disturb my entertaining activities, they complement each other, I will even urge co-operate organizations to come and bring the best out of this brand because it’s a big brand that calls attention everywhere he goes either on the street and social media people wants to know who I am.
Q: SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN PROJECTING YOUR SELF WITH THIS BRAND, WHAT BENEFITS HAS THE BRAND BROUGHT TO YOU AND WHAT ARE THE THINGS YOU HAVE ACHIEVED SO FAR?
A: A lot , a lot, I can’t even remember all, because if I say I remember all its like underrating what God has done in my life. During the time of HER EXCELLENCY CHIEF MRS OLUFUNKE AGAGU, the wife of the former governor of ondo state (GOVERNOR OLUSEGUN AGAGU) I was able to initiate a project call ABILITY RIGHT which I used to motivate, encourage and inform person with disabilities not to become a liability to the community and it was a success which the governor’s wife sponsor the whole project.
Also I was part of the people that God used to secure the second term of HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR OLUSEGUN MIMIKO, because I founded a platform called ARTIST FOR IROKO to mobilize for his election ,I have also done lots if jingles and campaign albums for politicians like Omisore, Hon segun oshinkolu the Olu Omo Of Ekiti North, Hon Olusegun Fanibe, Former Governor Segun Oni Of Ekiti State, Governor Ayo Fayose Of Ekiti States etc. The list of the benefit are endless, also I was part of the people that initiated (ASCEND) association for comprehensive empowerment of Nigerians with disabilities head by MR COSMOS OKOLI of M.A.R.R.D.E.C MOBILITY AID CENTER. right now am the c.e.o of STAR-GATE HERBAL CENTER , LYRICAL HIERARCHY MUSIC EMPIRE AND HIT-CITY MUSIC which I groom upcoming artistes and record most of them for free if I know you have a potential of becoming a star, any record label looking for great music producers and commercial artists can easily sought from us, there are rooms for partnership or outright signing on of any of our artistes or brand, the names of these our artistes are BIG DIDDO ,WAXY COOL,WALOMA,ILEKE PUMPING,LOCO, J BLOW,LORD PHYDO,SPIRIT FINGER ,VIP 72 AND DOCTOR FAME, we organize a mix tape album launch last year November 2015 so that record labels can notice them for pick up.
Q: WHAT ADVICE OR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENTS DID YOU HAVE FOR OTHER UPCOMING ARTISTE LOOKING UP TO YOU?
A: I will advise every artist to stand out and do common things in an uncommon ways, also set up a positive vision for yourself because it’s the foresight base on the insight for the benefit of mankind, life without vision leads to frustration and regret, for you to live a meaningful life you must have a vision, hold on to your vision if you don’t have one get one, set up your vision to accomplish your mission, it’s a conceptive idea that exist in the realm of imagination.
Monday, July 25, 2016
#GIST » BEST FEMALE OAP at CITY PEOPLE AWARDS 2016 - "LOLO1" | @officiallolo1 @BLACKLINKS »
Congrats
to the Queen of Radio "LOLO1 of Wazobia FM" as she won the best female
OAP award at the just concluded CITY PEOPLE AWARDS 2016. LOLO1 posted on
her Social media last night and stated "Wooooow i won best female Oap
city people awards God i owe it to you onlyyyyy.. ......
#myGodisfaithful"..
We can see its been a beautiful and successful year for the Queen of Radio. Congrats to LOLO1 of Wazobia FM
Connect with LOLO1: @Officiallolo1 [IG and Twitter]
We can see its been a beautiful and successful year for the Queen of Radio. Congrats to LOLO1 of Wazobia FM
Connect with LOLO1: @Officiallolo1 [IG and Twitter]
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Panic as herbalist challenged the judges at MTN Project Fame #MTNProjectFameHerbalist
There
was panic at the Lagos audition of MTN Project Fame West Africa season 9
as the famous herbalist whos name is Awopeju Olaniyi Philips a.k.a King
Phillipiano, stormed the Ultima Studio in his full traditional regalia
to slug it out with other music enthusiasts, He was adorned in beads,
robes, animal skin and a horsetail to match, the chap claims his costume
represents the cultural diversity and the unity of the African
continent through music.
As other participant at Ultima Studio hope to rise to fame at the end of the competition, he had already gotten his fame on the spot of MTN Project Fame platform.
However, King Phillipiano believed his costume would prove his seriousness to the judges but unfortunately his costume gave a negative impression as the judges were scared of giving him a "Yes or No" as they gave others, which makes his audition inconclusive.
He became the spotlight as his presence attracted paparazzi on the yellow carpet, and his fame has spread across the nations as all media giants now has his story published on there platforms.
However, the fame King Phillipiano sought seems to have come on the spot while the panel of judges comprising Gloria Rhodes, CobhamsAsuquo, and Shola Allyson are now the one battling with confusion in their mind as they don't know if they should give the famous herbalist "Yes or No" and it's as a result of the evil and bad image the Nigerian Nollywood Industry have labelled herbalist in Nigeria.
We hope to soon hear the herbalist own side of the story has MTN has projected his story in the best way they know.
As other participant at Ultima Studio hope to rise to fame at the end of the competition, he had already gotten his fame on the spot of MTN Project Fame platform.
However, King Phillipiano believed his costume would prove his seriousness to the judges but unfortunately his costume gave a negative impression as the judges were scared of giving him a "Yes or No" as they gave others, which makes his audition inconclusive.
He became the spotlight as his presence attracted paparazzi on the yellow carpet, and his fame has spread across the nations as all media giants now has his story published on there platforms.
However, the fame King Phillipiano sought seems to have come on the spot while the panel of judges comprising Gloria Rhodes, CobhamsAsuquo, and Shola Allyson are now the one battling with confusion in their mind as they don't know if they should give the famous herbalist "Yes or No" and it's as a result of the evil and bad image the Nigerian Nollywood Industry have labelled herbalist in Nigeria.
We hope to soon hear the herbalist own side of the story has MTN has projected his story in the best way they know.
Monday, July 18, 2016
#VIDEO » GBANGUCCI x Olamide – Baby Boo Nwayo [Reloaded] #Teaser @GBANGUCCI @Olamide_YBNL »
“Baby Boo Nwayo [Reloaded] by GBANGUCCI featuring Olamide.”
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
#GIST » Seunwhyte {@seunwhyte} a young talented video director who is taking the music industry by storm »
Seunwhyte is a young talented video director who is taking the music industry by storm with creative videos. Seunwhyte whose real name are Awopeju Oluwaseun started handing the camera since 2012 and he later proceed to Pefti film institute where he studied video directing & cinematographer to acquire more knowledge. After graduating from Pefti. He worked with wale adenuga television, Hit City record, Urban View to mention a few and he has feature in several project being televised on local and cable TV channel. He just shot a new video called "Go Slow" by King NoNoh.
Follow seunwhyte on facebook: awopeju oluwaseun whyte or you can reach him on 08061518901 or 07012846429 for your dope videos.
Connect with him on Twitter: @seunwhyte
https://twitter.com/seunwhyte
Follow seunwhyte on facebook: awopeju oluwaseun whyte or you can reach him on 08061518901 or 07012846429 for your dope videos.
Connect with him on Twitter: @seunwhyte
https://twitter.com/seunwhyte
Friday, March 11, 2016
GIST » #GET_POPULAR_AND_PARTY_WITH_THINKBIGAFRIKA_STUDIOZ {@thinkbigafrika @tbastudioz} + DURELLA, SMALL DOCTOR, DRESAN »
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago...the second best time is now.....why waste it?
Get ahead, get involve, be known.....
And save the date march 28 Ideals......
#GET_POPULAR_AND_PARTY_WITH_THINKBIGAFRIKA_STUDIOZ
+ DURELLA, SMALL DOCTOR, DRESAN, FAMOUS, TUTI BOYZ
GUEST SPEAKER: MUYIWA AFOLABI
Also ft mascot and oryzo, GB sky, T man chin chin,Yung kellyjay,ice boy, 2lawfu, skill boy,sound note, and many more.....
date: March 28 Easter monday.
Promo! Promo!! Promo!!!
produce a song for with THINKBIGAFRIKA studioz for N5,000 and get free online promotion and social
Media hype,
Produce 2 songs and get 1 free plus online promotion free.
The 1st 10 artist to Produce 5 songs will compete for the highest download download online, the winner will get a chance to obtain a year record deal.
Promo last from March 29 to April 20.
venue:City hotel: 169-171, Iyana orile bus-stop, ipaja road Agege lagos
studio address: 4 toyin balogun close, down bolaji street agbotikuyoh agege
HOST: mc,papa nkechi,
mc koded laff,
mc pawee,
eboh bomb,
mc Xtra kool (edo story teller),
mc Gboski,
mc ba head,
mcCoy.
Tickets: regular : N 500
VIP: N1,500,
Table: N3000
Powered by city hotel, city records, sound note records, supernova dream empire, the great mind initiative, slot ng, k father studio, Don perfect studio, TBA laff cafe,toppers video temple,hypeafrobeatz promotions,THINKBIGAFRIKAgroup international.
MEDIA PARTNERS: gbeduloaded.com, naijastarz.com, hiptv, kobznation, gbedutv, galaxy TV, waptv ,naija360gbedu, SSMG promotions, Hypeafrobeatz promotions, buzzingafrica and many more,
FOR PARTICIPATION, SPONSORSHIP AND BOOKINGS: contact: 08106097266, 09054647325,09083326499.
Bb pin: 5EF93113, 2B061C00.
@thinkbigafrika
@tbastudioz
Email us on: thinkbigafrikatv@gmail.com, THINKBIGAFRIKAgroup@yahoo.com
For more info visit: www.THINKBIGAFRIKA.com
Get ahead, get involve, be known.....
And save the date march 28 Ideals......
#GET_POPULAR_AND_PARTY_WITH_THINKBIGAFRIKA_STUDIOZ
+ DURELLA, SMALL DOCTOR, DRESAN, FAMOUS, TUTI BOYZ
GUEST SPEAKER: MUYIWA AFOLABI
Also ft mascot and oryzo, GB sky, T man chin chin,Yung kellyjay,ice boy, 2lawfu, skill boy,sound note, and many more.....
date: March 28 Easter monday.
Promo! Promo!! Promo!!!
produce a song for with THINKBIGAFRIKA studioz for N5,000 and get free online promotion and social
Media hype,
Produce 2 songs and get 1 free plus online promotion free.
The 1st 10 artist to Produce 5 songs will compete for the highest download download online, the winner will get a chance to obtain a year record deal.
Promo last from March 29 to April 20.
venue:City hotel: 169-171, Iyana orile bus-stop, ipaja road Agege lagos
studio address: 4 toyin balogun close, down bolaji street agbotikuyoh agege
HOST: mc,papa nkechi,
mc koded laff,
mc pawee,
eboh bomb,
mc Xtra kool (edo story teller),
mc Gboski,
mc ba head,
mcCoy.
Tickets: regular : N 500
VIP: N1,500,
Table: N3000
Powered by city hotel, city records, sound note records, supernova dream empire, the great mind initiative, slot ng, k father studio, Don perfect studio, TBA laff cafe,toppers video temple,hypeafrobeatz promotions,THINKBIGAFRIKAgroup international.
MEDIA PARTNERS: gbeduloaded.com, naijastarz.com, hiptv, kobznation, gbedutv, galaxy TV, waptv ,naija360gbedu, SSMG promotions, Hypeafrobeatz promotions, buzzingafrica and many more,
FOR PARTICIPATION, SPONSORSHIP AND BOOKINGS: contact: 08106097266, 09054647325,09083326499.
Bb pin: 5EF93113, 2B061C00.
@thinkbigafrika
@tbastudioz
Email us on: thinkbigafrikatv@gmail.com, THINKBIGAFRIKAgroup@yahoo.com
For more info visit: www.THINKBIGAFRIKA.com
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