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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Celebrities Rock Yomi Casual 2013 Collections
What do Ebube Nwagbo and Don Jazzy have in Common? What do Desmond Elliot and Susan Peters have in Common? Zack Orji and Okey Bakassi; Jimmy Jatt and Iyanya what do they have in common?
Answer: they all rock Yomi Casuals.
Just as do Chinedu Ikedieze, Uti Nwachukwu, and Julius Elenu, the Dynamix All Youth Comedian of the Year 2012.
Yomi Casual (himself a Dynamix All-Youth Awardee in the Fashion Category) just unveiled his 2013 Collections, and all Personalities above feature admiringly in them.
The last time Desmond Elliot was at Yomi Casual's Luxury Showroom on 8 Bode Thomas, Surulere Lagos, guess what he said about the Hottest Fashion Designer in Nigeria (as conferred on Yomi Casual by City People):
“I have supreme confidence in you that you would definitely be an achiever because of your strategic focus, your unerring sense of quality and your superb collection of Smart, Dressy and Business Casuals. Congratulations, Yomi, I am so proud of you.” Desmond encouraged.
That’s not the end of the story.
Yomi Casuals can bring out the Celebrity in You, as well. He is just a call away at +234 803 777 0128, or a tweet away @YOMICASUALS
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Ebube[/caption][caption id="attachment_572" align="aligncenter" width="2104"]
Susan Peters[/caption][caption id="attachment_609" align="aligncenter" width="1476"]
Desmond Elliot[/caption]- Desmond Elliot
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Uti Nwachukwu[/caption]- Uti Nwachukwu
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Chinedu Ikedieze[/caption][caption id="attachment_644" align="aligncenter" width="1090"]
Efe Tommy[/caption][caption id="attachment_591" align="aligncenter" width="976"]
Zack Orji[/caption][caption id="attachment_604" align="aligncenter" width="1008"]
Yomi Casual and Don Jazzy[/caption][caption id="attachment_619" align="aligncenter" width="987"]
Cool DJ Jimmy Jatt[/caption][caption id="attachment_589" align="aligncenter" width="923"]
Elenu[/caption]
- Okey Bakassi
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Susan Peters[/caption][caption id="attachment_595" align="aligncenter" width="1154"]
Uti Nwachukwu[/caption][caption id="attachment_568" align="aligncenter" width="1964"]
Ebube[/caption][caption id="attachment_579" align="aligncenter" width="2460"]
Desmond Elliot[/caption][caption id="attachment_632" align="aligncenter" width="2240"]
Chinedu Ikedieze[/caption][caption id="attachment_639" align="aligncenter" width="1838"]
Uti Nwachuwkwu[/caption]
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By Yomi Casuals[/caption]Naija FM’s Sabina drops Jesus, today
Sabina Umoren, Author, Motivational Speaker, Gospel Artiste, Naija FM On-Air-Personality, and SOCOM 2012 Broadcaster of The Year is set to drop the new video of Jesus Le, one of the good quality Tracks from her BEAUTIFUL Album.
Directed by Mahmoud Olympio, Jesus Le Video is full of captivating Drama and energy. Which is a true representation of the one called Najia Pastor of Naija FM. Sabina is well-known for her energetic Stage Performance, Supernatural flow On-Air, and a delightful sense humour.
Sabina Umoren co-presents the Morning Runs with Ushbebe and Godwin , weekdays on Naija 102.7FM from 6am – 11am. Her voice is the anointed voice you hear on Sunday Best from 6am – 112pm on the same Station.
Her music is Afro-Contemporary Gospel, a genre effortlessly produces with a 15-man Band called, Perfect Realm.
AY’s BLOG would upload Jesus Le Video for your viewing and worship pleasure, as soon as it’s official premiered.
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Sabina released 'Gidipa' Video June 2011[/caption]
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SABINA UMOREN is an Author, a Gospel Artiste, a Motivational Speaker, and OAP with Jaija 102.7FM[/caption]
Directed by Mahmoud Olympio, Jesus Le Video is full of captivating Drama and energy. Which is a true representation of the one called Najia Pastor of Naija FM. Sabina is well-known for her energetic Stage Performance, Supernatural flow On-Air, and a delightful sense humour.
Sabina Umoren co-presents the Morning Runs with Ushbebe and Godwin , weekdays on Naija 102.7FM from 6am – 11am. Her voice is the anointed voice you hear on Sunday Best from 6am – 112pm on the same Station.
Her music is Afro-Contemporary Gospel, a genre effortlessly produces with a 15-man Band called, Perfect Realm.
AY’s BLOG would upload Jesus Le Video for your viewing and worship pleasure, as soon as it’s official premiered.
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Sabina released 'Gidipa' Video June 2011[/caption][caption id="attachment_559" align="aligncenter" width="675"]
SABINA UMOREN is an Author, a Gospel Artiste, a Motivational Speaker, and OAP with Jaija 102.7FM[/caption]Wednesday, February 27, 2013
As Successful as Iyanya
An Iyanya wanna-be watches Kukere Video on a Satellite Cable TV, and big dreams strolled into his prospective imagination. For a moment he closed his eyes, joined his palms together and said a simple prayer: Dear Lord, please make 'blow' like Iyanaya…
His short prayer inspired this story. It elicit the question, if he got his wish, would he have enough strength to go through all Iyanya passed through? And in the event the young dude doesn't know, this is Iyanya's BIG STORY.
Few weeks before MTN Project Fame (West Africa), Iyanya was to go to the United Kingdom to study an Engineering course. The plan was to work with some Shell or Chevron companies on his return but one thing stood between him and his UK Trip.
Visa Issues? No!
Ticket fare? Nope!
The thing was the first edition of Project Fame while his Uncles stood on the UK side of the divide, his destiny pushed him on the side of giving his talent a try. When they tried to let him see the benefits of going to the UK, Iyanya's reply was: “No let me just try this thing, I feel that it will work.”
His mind made up, Iyanya faced auditions and out of thousands of West African hopefuls, Iyanya and 17 others were confirmed good enough for Project Fame's Academy.
The first impression was that Iyanya must beat this 17 others to the Contest. Unknown to him, the greatest threat to his success wasn't in the 17 others, it was in a bad news Fate would schedule his way.
Two weeks to the end of Project Fame, the sad news filtered all the way from Calabar to Lagos 'Iyanya, your dad is dead.'
Painful! Unbearable! Heart-rending!
Life seem so unfair. Iyanya was running out of strength to continue the Contest but through the pains, through the misery, through the tears he came out GOLD. He became the first to win MTN Project Fame West Africa, smiling to the Bank with N2.8 million and riding on Lagos streets with a brand new Toyota RAV4.
Unknown to him, the Win was just the beginning of what would be his Showbiz Wilderness Experience. Ahead lay rejection, depression and gloom.
“People thought I became a big boy after Project Fame it's a lie,” Iyanya said in a Newspaper interview. “Project fame actually started my hustle. Yes, I won a Reality Show, and people expected me to sing love songs, which I did but it didn't take me anywhere.
In his harrowing wilderness, N2.8million was gone. RAV 4 wore out. And to make things more traumatic, 'Love Truly' and 'No Time' his singles just refused to 'blow.
“I felt depressed. The experience was quite trying. Do you know that it was so bad that I would beg for shows? I would say I want to perform for free and they won't let me perform because they would be like, 'what do you want to sing? Is it not that RnB?' Then they will ask me to peep at the crowd. When I peeped and the crowd will be on a frenzy when other artistes are performing.
“I've performed in places and the crowds will just look at me, like, what's wrong with this one? I would scream: 'make some noise!' And they would say: 'comot there!'
“Even at Corporate Events, you will expect them to be the ones that want R&B Performances but no. They don't want it. So it was really trying because I was not making money. The highest performance fee I got back then as an RnB artiste in a month was about N250,000, and it was a Fashion Show. I would do Campus shows, and once I start singing the R & B Songs, the students would start shouting “Thank you, thank you…
“It was depressing. I felt the pains. And I couldn't live with all the rejectio
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Somewhere in his mental diary, Iyanya noted the date March 25, 2010, and in that diary with heavy a heart, and eyes fighting back tears, he wrote: “I'll remember him all my life.”[/caption]
No. It didn't come for Iyanya. It came for Iyanya's elder brother, and only sibling. It ceased his heart from beating. It ceased his lungs from breathing. Turned he body cold. Closed his eyes eternally. Forced him to bid this World, goodbye, and forced tears out of Iyanya's eyes once again.
”We used to call him Don Alpacino”, Iyanya, inconsolably, told reporters after Onoyom Onoyom Mbuk, his brother drew his last breath in a Calabar Hospital. ”He had an accident when he was three years, and we've been believing God for a miracle all these while. He complained…he couldn't breathe, and we rushed him to the hospital where he gave up. ”It's just so sad to lose someone you love dearly.”
Somewhere in his mental diary, Iyanya noted the date March 25, 2010, and in that diary with heavy a heart, and eyes fighting back tears, he wrote: “I'll remember him all my life.”
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Iyanya performing on AY Live Stage in London[/caption]
Then, he called a meeting with himself to map out the way forward. In that meeting, he was very frank to himself and vent his bitterness at himself.
“I've spent four years of my life trying to get people to listen to my R & B,” he raged, “and all they want to do is dance. I am seemingly on my way to being forgotten. I am tired of just being a Show Starter. I craved for being a headliner. There should be an event, and there's a crowd waiting anxiously for one big act. I want that to be me. I'm tired of just going on stage with a guitarist and few girls scream and that's all. I wanted more than that.”
Before this self-discovery meeting ended, Iyanya had beat some 'Music Industry' sense into his own head.
“I became conscious of the fact that to be a successful artiste, your creativity has to fit into your environment. There are so many people out there doing music especially in Nigeria, you have to stand out, and standing-out takes a whole lot of hard work.
“Part of the hard work is giving the people what they want. That way you'll survive the difficult terrain of the Music Industry. You'll eat the fruit of the hard work you put into writing, singing, producing, and promoting the song. And You will stay long enough in the Industry.”
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Emma Nyra, Ubi Franklyn, and Iyanya at the Backstage of AY Live in London[/caption]
Enter Iyanya's Manager, Ubi.
Together, they decided to look for a Producer that can give a beat different from the R & B that never worked. And we wanted something first-rate, and danceable, too. Providence lead Iyanya and Ubi to DTunes. They began working. Somehow they couldn't come up with anything after 30days. But three months after their first day in the studio with DTunes, they came up with something Kukere!
The people didn't believe in Kukere in its first weeks outside the studio. The first were a set of internet surfers. They listened to Kukere online and made remarks like:
'Bulls**t!' 'Crap!' 'I'm disappointed in this guy, he has joined the band wagon.'
The other unbeliever is a guy called: Desire
Desire is actually the English translation of Iyanya. When Iyanya started music, he stage-named himself 'Desire' because he was into R & B and he wanted an English name that'll suit his performances.
On Project Fame, the name he wanted to be called was Desire but the Producers rejected Desire sticking with his native Iyanya. So, 'Desire' is the soul singer in Iyanya whose great voice delivers songs he takes time to write, whose delivery touches the soul, but who ironically wasn't accepted.
So, Desire had issues with Kukere because it was a departure from Iyanya's norm. In other words, Iyanya wasn't just comfortable with Kukere. He was so not proud of that song that he didn't put his name on the track.
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Iyanya: Trust me, i never believed in Kukere[/caption]
“Trust me, I never believed in that song. I didn't even like it. That was the first pop song I did, after doing RnB, so I was like “Man, this song is not going to work. I struggled in my thoughts about it: “I'm an R&B artiste, how will people see this?” So when I did the song I didn't even mention my name in it. I didn't want anybody to know I sang it.”
Unlike Iyanya, Ubi was one of the early believers in Kukure. In order to just get the track out, he pulled off some managerial stunt that could have cost him Iyanya's trust him. He told Iyanya some event organizers have booked him for N500,000 for a show and the only condition for attendance is if he completed the production of Kukere. Iyanya accepted the condition because there his eyes were on '500K'.
Iyanya quickly completed the song only for Ubi to tell him there was no Event anywhere. Nobody is pay no 500K. Ubi only saw the future. He foresaw Kukure being a monster hit, and the only way that could happen was if the song is completed and released for people to enjoy.
Ubi's stunt worked! His vision was spot on. Kukere, like MI said, became a Suicide Bomber it Blew up!
Quickly, Iyanya began taking more risky moves to promote the song.
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I sold my car because I had to do a tour to promote the same song when I saw that people started appreciating it.[/caption]
“I sold my car because I had to do a tour to promote the same song when I saw that people started appreciating it. I had to do a tour because I realized the song was big in most places, they didn't know who did it. So I had to do a tour to let people know I sang the song. So promoters won't pay some other artiste to perform the song.
“On that tour, few artistes supported me. And when they supported me we didn't have the best of times. I remember a tour where I and all the artiste that supported me had to stay out 6 hours before we could get Hotel rooms. A friend had to guarantee our stay with his car. He assured the hotel owners that if we don't end up paying for the rooms, they should keep his car.”
All the while, Iyanya and Ubi both lived in a room apartment. And Iyanya was carless for 12months. But gradually, Kukere was gradually rising to number one on Radio Countdowns, it started getting massive Dj plays in club houses, Iyanya began getting regular bookings for events, his phone was getting regular alert from banks, but sadly and every so often, he would miss his Mother who passed on to Glory August 5, 2010. This would have been a good time to reward his mother's care. Her absence notwithstanding, Iyanya can take solace in always looking up to the sky after every career success knowing his mother is up there proudly smiling him.
An average orphan, Iyanya's age would probably be living off charity from relatives. For Iyanya, Death shook his faith in life but Destiny scheduled Kukere his way. From the heart-break of losing his family, Iyanya broke Africa Ring Back Tunes record becoming the first of artiste in Africa to reach the 3 million mark (and counting) for number of RBT downloads.
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On charts it rose to number one. In upscale, Lekki, Lagos, it secured a home for Iyanya, and In 12months, Kukere replaced the car sold to promote it with FIVE better ones, including a N12m brand new Range Rover Sport SUV, and a N32.8m, 2012 Aston Martin DB9.[/caption]
Three million downloads alone, experts estimate could have fetched Iyanya N60million. And so Iyanya's Kukere success came quickly, without warning. On YouTube Kukere has over 5million views. On charts it rose to number one. In upscale, Lekki, Lagos, it secured a home for Iyanya, and In 12months, Kukere replaced the car sold to promote it with FIVE better ones, including a N12m brand new Range Rover Sport SUV, and a N32.8m, 2012 Aston Martin DB9.
“I will be honest with you, my life has changed. I now go to places I used to visit and people jostle to take millions of photographs with me, when in fact I actually used to go to these same places in the past and people failed to notice me. When I look at myself, I see some guy that God has so blessed.
“All those people I did shows for, who said they were not going to pay me, are the same people calling me back to headline their shows. All the people who looked down on me, all the people who 'rubbished' me I can tell you that all of them, completely, all of them have called me back. Not one left out. All of them.
“Look at me now, five years ago, the same people who would see me and wouldn't interview me; the same people that would see me and walk pass, are the same that notice me and want to get the story of my life.
'I've gone to Nite Clubs and bouncers would deny me access to the VIP section, and when someone says don't you know this guy, he won Project Fame now, and the bouncers will go, 'So what?' The same bouncers see me from afar now and 'hail'.”
Iyanya's success story is a template on how to study the music industry and re-launch a dying career. He has forgiven all those who either looked down on him or didn't believe him because they don't know that they pain they caused was a preparation for his destiny.
Now, If you have heard Kukere, you must have danced to 'Your Waist. If you have danced to 'Your Waist,' you must have rocked 'Flavour'…
These are all songs performed by a 26-year old Nigerian. His name, Iyanya Mbuk the guy who succeeded, failed, and turned his failure to a record-breaking SUCCESS!
His short prayer inspired this story. It elicit the question, if he got his wish, would he have enough strength to go through all Iyanya passed through? And in the event the young dude doesn't know, this is Iyanya's BIG STORY.
Few weeks before MTN Project Fame (West Africa), Iyanya was to go to the United Kingdom to study an Engineering course. The plan was to work with some Shell or Chevron companies on his return but one thing stood between him and his UK Trip.
Visa Issues? No!
Ticket fare? Nope!
The thing was the first edition of Project Fame while his Uncles stood on the UK side of the divide, his destiny pushed him on the side of giving his talent a try. When they tried to let him see the benefits of going to the UK, Iyanya's reply was: “No let me just try this thing, I feel that it will work.”
His mind made up, Iyanya faced auditions and out of thousands of West African hopefuls, Iyanya and 17 others were confirmed good enough for Project Fame's Academy.
The first impression was that Iyanya must beat this 17 others to the Contest. Unknown to him, the greatest threat to his success wasn't in the 17 others, it was in a bad news Fate would schedule his way.
Two weeks to the end of Project Fame, the sad news filtered all the way from Calabar to Lagos 'Iyanya, your dad is dead.'
Painful! Unbearable! Heart-rending!
Life seem so unfair. Iyanya was running out of strength to continue the Contest but through the pains, through the misery, through the tears he came out GOLD. He became the first to win MTN Project Fame West Africa, smiling to the Bank with N2.8 million and riding on Lagos streets with a brand new Toyota RAV4.
Unknown to him, the Win was just the beginning of what would be his Showbiz Wilderness Experience. Ahead lay rejection, depression and gloom.
“People thought I became a big boy after Project Fame it's a lie,” Iyanya said in a Newspaper interview. “Project fame actually started my hustle. Yes, I won a Reality Show, and people expected me to sing love songs, which I did but it didn't take me anywhere.
In his harrowing wilderness, N2.8million was gone. RAV 4 wore out. And to make things more traumatic, 'Love Truly' and 'No Time' his singles just refused to 'blow.
“I felt depressed. The experience was quite trying. Do you know that it was so bad that I would beg for shows? I would say I want to perform for free and they won't let me perform because they would be like, 'what do you want to sing? Is it not that RnB?' Then they will ask me to peep at the crowd. When I peeped and the crowd will be on a frenzy when other artistes are performing.
“I've performed in places and the crowds will just look at me, like, what's wrong with this one? I would scream: 'make some noise!' And they would say: 'comot there!'
“Even at Corporate Events, you will expect them to be the ones that want R&B Performances but no. They don't want it. So it was really trying because I was not making money. The highest performance fee I got back then as an RnB artiste in a month was about N250,000, and it was a Fashion Show. I would do Campus shows, and once I start singing the R & B Songs, the students would start shouting “Thank you, thank you…
“It was depressing. I felt the pains. And I couldn't live with all the rejectio
[caption id="attachment_518" align="aligncenter" width="480"]
Somewhere in his mental diary, Iyanya noted the date March 25, 2010, and in that diary with heavy a heart, and eyes fighting back tears, he wrote: “I'll remember him all my life.”[/caption]While still wondering why life is becoming so unbearable, that ugly and mean thing came calling with deadly stings.
No. It didn't come for Iyanya. It came for Iyanya's elder brother, and only sibling. It ceased his heart from beating. It ceased his lungs from breathing. Turned he body cold. Closed his eyes eternally. Forced him to bid this World, goodbye, and forced tears out of Iyanya's eyes once again.
”We used to call him Don Alpacino”, Iyanya, inconsolably, told reporters after Onoyom Onoyom Mbuk, his brother drew his last breath in a Calabar Hospital. ”He had an accident when he was three years, and we've been believing God for a miracle all these while. He complained…he couldn't breathe, and we rushed him to the hospital where he gave up. ”It's just so sad to lose someone you love dearly.”
Somewhere in his mental diary, Iyanya noted the date March 25, 2010, and in that diary with heavy a heart, and eyes fighting back tears, he wrote: “I'll remember him all my life.”
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Iyanya performing on AY Live Stage in London[/caption]Iyanya soon managed to wipe the tears off his eyes so he could see clearly the future of a career he never expected would shine so bright. If he did, he never knew it would come so soon.
Then, he called a meeting with himself to map out the way forward. In that meeting, he was very frank to himself and vent his bitterness at himself.
“I've spent four years of my life trying to get people to listen to my R & B,” he raged, “and all they want to do is dance. I am seemingly on my way to being forgotten. I am tired of just being a Show Starter. I craved for being a headliner. There should be an event, and there's a crowd waiting anxiously for one big act. I want that to be me. I'm tired of just going on stage with a guitarist and few girls scream and that's all. I wanted more than that.”
Before this self-discovery meeting ended, Iyanya had beat some 'Music Industry' sense into his own head.
“I became conscious of the fact that to be a successful artiste, your creativity has to fit into your environment. There are so many people out there doing music especially in Nigeria, you have to stand out, and standing-out takes a whole lot of hard work.
“Part of the hard work is giving the people what they want. That way you'll survive the difficult terrain of the Music Industry. You'll eat the fruit of the hard work you put into writing, singing, producing, and promoting the song. And You will stay long enough in the Industry.”
[caption id="attachment_521" align="aligncenter" width="700"]
Emma Nyra, Ubi Franklyn, and Iyanya at the Backstage of AY Live in London[/caption]Enter Iyanya's Manager, Ubi.
Together, they decided to look for a Producer that can give a beat different from the R & B that never worked. And we wanted something first-rate, and danceable, too. Providence lead Iyanya and Ubi to DTunes. They began working. Somehow they couldn't come up with anything after 30days. But three months after their first day in the studio with DTunes, they came up with something Kukere!
The people didn't believe in Kukere in its first weeks outside the studio. The first were a set of internet surfers. They listened to Kukere online and made remarks like:
'Bulls**t!' 'Crap!' 'I'm disappointed in this guy, he has joined the band wagon.'
The other unbeliever is a guy called: Desire
Desire is actually the English translation of Iyanya. When Iyanya started music, he stage-named himself 'Desire' because he was into R & B and he wanted an English name that'll suit his performances.
On Project Fame, the name he wanted to be called was Desire but the Producers rejected Desire sticking with his native Iyanya. So, 'Desire' is the soul singer in Iyanya whose great voice delivers songs he takes time to write, whose delivery touches the soul, but who ironically wasn't accepted.
So, Desire had issues with Kukere because it was a departure from Iyanya's norm. In other words, Iyanya wasn't just comfortable with Kukere. He was so not proud of that song that he didn't put his name on the track.
[caption id="attachment_519" align="aligncenter" width="480"]
Iyanya: Trust me, i never believed in Kukere[/caption]“Trust me, I never believed in that song. I didn't even like it. That was the first pop song I did, after doing RnB, so I was like “Man, this song is not going to work. I struggled in my thoughts about it: “I'm an R&B artiste, how will people see this?” So when I did the song I didn't even mention my name in it. I didn't want anybody to know I sang it.”
Unlike Iyanya, Ubi was one of the early believers in Kukure. In order to just get the track out, he pulled off some managerial stunt that could have cost him Iyanya's trust him. He told Iyanya some event organizers have booked him for N500,000 for a show and the only condition for attendance is if he completed the production of Kukere. Iyanya accepted the condition because there his eyes were on '500K'.
Iyanya quickly completed the song only for Ubi to tell him there was no Event anywhere. Nobody is pay no 500K. Ubi only saw the future. He foresaw Kukure being a monster hit, and the only way that could happen was if the song is completed and released for people to enjoy.
Ubi's stunt worked! His vision was spot on. Kukere, like MI said, became a Suicide Bomber it Blew up!
Quickly, Iyanya began taking more risky moves to promote the song.
[caption id="attachment_523" align="aligncenter" width="480"]
I sold my car because I had to do a tour to promote the same song when I saw that people started appreciating it.[/caption]“I sold my car because I had to do a tour to promote the same song when I saw that people started appreciating it. I had to do a tour because I realized the song was big in most places, they didn't know who did it. So I had to do a tour to let people know I sang the song. So promoters won't pay some other artiste to perform the song.
“On that tour, few artistes supported me. And when they supported me we didn't have the best of times. I remember a tour where I and all the artiste that supported me had to stay out 6 hours before we could get Hotel rooms. A friend had to guarantee our stay with his car. He assured the hotel owners that if we don't end up paying for the rooms, they should keep his car.”
All the while, Iyanya and Ubi both lived in a room apartment. And Iyanya was carless for 12months. But gradually, Kukere was gradually rising to number one on Radio Countdowns, it started getting massive Dj plays in club houses, Iyanya began getting regular bookings for events, his phone was getting regular alert from banks, but sadly and every so often, he would miss his Mother who passed on to Glory August 5, 2010. This would have been a good time to reward his mother's care. Her absence notwithstanding, Iyanya can take solace in always looking up to the sky after every career success knowing his mother is up there proudly smiling him.
An average orphan, Iyanya's age would probably be living off charity from relatives. For Iyanya, Death shook his faith in life but Destiny scheduled Kukere his way. From the heart-break of losing his family, Iyanya broke Africa Ring Back Tunes record becoming the first of artiste in Africa to reach the 3 million mark (and counting) for number of RBT downloads.
[caption id="attachment_524" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
On charts it rose to number one. In upscale, Lekki, Lagos, it secured a home for Iyanya, and In 12months, Kukere replaced the car sold to promote it with FIVE better ones, including a N12m brand new Range Rover Sport SUV, and a N32.8m, 2012 Aston Martin DB9.[/caption]Three million downloads alone, experts estimate could have fetched Iyanya N60million. And so Iyanya's Kukere success came quickly, without warning. On YouTube Kukere has over 5million views. On charts it rose to number one. In upscale, Lekki, Lagos, it secured a home for Iyanya, and In 12months, Kukere replaced the car sold to promote it with FIVE better ones, including a N12m brand new Range Rover Sport SUV, and a N32.8m, 2012 Aston Martin DB9.
“I will be honest with you, my life has changed. I now go to places I used to visit and people jostle to take millions of photographs with me, when in fact I actually used to go to these same places in the past and people failed to notice me. When I look at myself, I see some guy that God has so blessed.
“All those people I did shows for, who said they were not going to pay me, are the same people calling me back to headline their shows. All the people who looked down on me, all the people who 'rubbished' me I can tell you that all of them, completely, all of them have called me back. Not one left out. All of them.
“Look at me now, five years ago, the same people who would see me and wouldn't interview me; the same people that would see me and walk pass, are the same that notice me and want to get the story of my life.
'I've gone to Nite Clubs and bouncers would deny me access to the VIP section, and when someone says don't you know this guy, he won Project Fame now, and the bouncers will go, 'So what?' The same bouncers see me from afar now and 'hail'.”
Iyanya's success story is a template on how to study the music industry and re-launch a dying career. He has forgiven all those who either looked down on him or didn't believe him because they don't know that they pain they caused was a preparation for his destiny.
Now, If you have heard Kukere, you must have danced to 'Your Waist. If you have danced to 'Your Waist,' you must have rocked 'Flavour'…
These are all songs performed by a 26-year old Nigerian. His name, Iyanya Mbuk the guy who succeeded, failed, and turned his failure to a record-breaking SUCCESS!
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Nokia Sponsors AY Show on Cool FM
Barely a month after it debuted on Radio, The AY Show on Cool FM which airs live every Tuesday from 12:00pm – 2:00pm has gained the attention of telecommunication giant, Nokia.
This means listeners can now win FREE Nokia AHSA Phones by listening in on the Show and answering simple questions on the Show. Wanna-be comedians can also try their talents cracking clean jokes on the Open Mic Segment of the Show and they stand an opportunity to win a range of Nokia ASHA Phones.
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Click to listen to AY Show on CoonFM[/caption]
This means listeners can now win FREE Nokia AHSA Phones by listening in on the Show and answering simple questions on the Show. Wanna-be comedians can also try their talents cracking clean jokes on the Open Mic Segment of the Show and they stand an opportunity to win a range of Nokia ASHA Phones.
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Click to listen to AY Show on CoonFM[/caption]
Watch Banky W, Genevieve and Surprise Celebrity Choir sing to Omosexy
Please CLICK HERE to watch the video
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