Showing posts with label Genevieve Nnaji. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genevieve Nnaji. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2013

Complete Interview On What Between D'banj And Genevieve Nnaji


Well... like you all know, the relationship between Genevieve Nnaji  and  D'ban has long been over, but the gist and gossip about the much talked about relationship lingers on.
You know...Genevieve and D'banj actually dated on and off between 2009 and early 2012, but only recently D'banj spilled all the KOKO before Toolz on the Juice about his relationship with Nigeria's Julia Robert  when he said:
“Genevieve was a friend…(but now) I haven’t seen her…I don’t know who dumped who.
So, you can watch and catch up with the full gist in Part 1 and Part 2 of the much anticipated interview after the cut...


Part 1

Part 2

Friday, November 30, 2012

Tonto Dike – “If I keep waiting for an Igbo man, I will just end up like Genevieve Nnaji who is eternally single”


This piece was culled from an interview Tonto Dike had recently with a reporter from Punch. Excerpt from the interview:
Interviewer: We just learnt that you will be getting married soon to your new boyfriend who happens to come from Benin, Edo state. Why are so many Nollywood female starts getting snapped up by Benin or men from Edo state?
Tonto Dike: First of all, it is nobody’s business where my fiance is from. That out of the way, yes Benin men are great and very understanding. They are not sitting and judging you unlike an Igbo man that will want to be poke-nosing in everything you do. You make your money and the Edo man is not interested in your personal affairs . “If I keep waiting for an Igbo man, I will just end up like Genevieve Nnaji who is eternally single.”
Tonto dike Debunked the statement above…
In a reaction to the alleged interview, which has spread like harmmatan fire, Tonto reacted this way, “I have never and will never say anything against Genevieve. I will not even interfere in her personal issues. I did not grant such interview.”
Her publicist also denied any such statement from Tonto dike. The publicist said, “after her interview with you (NFC) last year December, Tonto dike has only granted an interview with a soft-sell magazine, which was done about three months ago.
So, I don’t know where that purported interview came from or when such was granted.”

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Nollywood’s Musical Failures


Nollywood actors discover that conquering the music scene requires a different skills set
Tonto Dikeh was and is still admired as an actress. But when she strayed into music, releasing two singles, fans did not transfer the admiration for her acting to singing. In reality, the actress can take some positives from the rejection of her singing efforts. Itz Ova and Hi, the two singles, were lynched by critics.
“Whoever produced her knew she has a bad voice for singing and masked our listening torture with the Autotune effect. But even the Autotune rejected any attempt to make a bad voice worse and Tonto came out sounding like she was in mid-stream orgasm instead of singing,” said Charles Novia, famous movie producer.  On the social media, the two songs, which yielded numerous gags, were savaged.
The positives? All through October, the two songs had more downloads than any other Nigerian song on music websites and attracted more attention as well.  The 27-year-old remains undaunted by the hostility to her musical debut and is expected to release videos of her singles soon.
Before Tonto, others had had misadventures in music. It did not take so long for actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde to realise that a pretty face and generous curves cannot compensate for dire singing. The star of Last Flight To Abuja was roundly criticised for her debut album, Gba. Naija Lowa, a track on the album, attracted derision aplenty. The star actress, however, told this magazine in an interview that her album was well received. By who or where remains unclear.
Her second attempt, Me, Myself and Eyes, released in 2010, also bombed. The 12-track album, which featured cuts like Feel Alright and Missing You, neither made many feel alright nor suggested that she has been missed on the music scene. Despite two unsuccessful attempts, Novia reckons that Omotola deserves to be cut some slack because she is an A-list actress.
She began her singing career in 2005 when the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria banned some actors for one year on account of exploiting their A-list status to make excessive monetary demands from producers. Those affected were Genevieve Nnaji, Stella Damasus, Nkem Owoh, Ramsey Nouah, Pete Edochie and Richard Mofe-Damijo. Along with Omotola, Nnaji, Damasus, Owoh and Nouah all took music as a second career.
Damasus had been a performing musician before becoming an actress. She sang in a group, Synergy, with her late husband, Jaiye Aboderin, and produced a hit single, Love Song. She had also been a studio singer with Kingsley Ogoro’s Klink Studio. Stella believes that fans who think she recently began singing must be infants. “Those who think I joined the bandwagon of movie stars trying to play music must be new in the industry. I started singing in Jazzville and have done duets with Segun Arinze, Mr. Cool and back-ups for Sammy Okposo, collabo with Blakky and OGD All Stars,” she said.
Stella’s new offering, Love Me Quick, was released last month and the video, shot in USA, Cameroun and Nigeria, is due for release soon. Damasus claims that if she was not a genuine talent, she would not have performed at corporate shows organised by MTN, Airtel, Worldspace, Peugeot and the American Embassy among others.
Her colleagues do not have that type of resume. All have slipped on the music circuit. Genevieve’s One Logologo Line, released after signing with Ghana’s EKB record label in 2004, faded a few weeks after release.
Nkem Owoh’s single, I Go Chop Your Dollar, similarly flat-lined and had the misfortune of being banned by the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, which saw it as a homage to Advance Fee Fraud. Owoh, star of the hugely successful two-part Osuofia In London, remains a screen giant, but a musical cretin just like Saheed Balogun, Desmond Elliot, Ramsey Nouah and Bobby Michaels.
Jim Iyke’s singles Who Am I featuring 2Face and  another track, Born To Do This with Puffy T are evidence that the controversial actor is a musical minnow.
Music producer, Fliptyce, argues that the singing actors failed because they think their success in acting would readily translate to success in singing. He said some others have joined music because the industry is thriving and they just want to cash in on it. “I do not think they have the talent to sing at all. They just want more stardom from singing but many of them find out that there is more to music than they think,” he said.
Fliptyce, popular for producing P-Square’s Chop My Money, said the rate at which Nigerian music has travelled across the world is another reason some actors want to try singing.
Solomon Oyeniyi popularly known as K-Solo’s submission isn’t far off. Having produced hits for Timaya, he reckons that many actors do not go through the right channel to achieve their music dreams. He believes that just because you are a successful actor does not mean you will be a successful musician. “There are prerequisite to becoming a successful musician. We have rules that must be observed irrespective of who you are,” he explained.
He added that upcoming artistes sometimes learn the ropes for many years from more established musicians, who help to develop their skills or talent. “Musicians must be groomed. There are lessons to learn and trainings to undergo like voice training, notes and other basic elements of music,” he argued.
Klever Jay, a successful recording musician, believes that everyone has the liberty to express themselves via music but the acceptability of their song will be the judge. “It is not for musicians to criticise actors who try singing, I think the fans will judge their performances,” he explained.
The Koni Koni Luv and Igborotidaru star submits that it is not easy for a musician to compile lyrics and record an album. “To be successful musician you need more than zeal and determination. You need to know the rudimentary steps and follow them,” he said.
—Seun Bisuga/TheNEWS magazine

Friday, May 18, 2012

Behind the Scenes Photos of Stephanie Okereke, Genevieve Nnaji, Isaiah Washington, Vivica .A. Fox, Hakeem Rahman, Jimmy Jean Louis & More at the Set of Tony Abulu’s Movie “Doctor Bello”

Since the announcement of Tony Abulu’s Hollywood-meets-Nollywood movie Doctor Bello, movie lovers have anxiously been waiting for an official release date to see the end product of the flick that has been tagged by some as one of the year’s must watch blockbuster.
Starring in this movie which its synopsis is “The Cure for Cancer has been found in the sky mountains of Africa and an American Oncologist will risk everything to get it”, are Stephanie Okereke-Idahosa, Genevieve Nnaji, Olumide Bakare, Hakeem Rahman, Jide Kosoko, Isaiah Washington, Vivica .A. Fox, Jimmy Jean Louis, Bern Cohen, Ebbe Bassey, Victor Browne and a host of others.
As we all wait for the movie, here are the exclusive behind the scenes photos!
Nigerian Shoot
Genevieve Nnaji
Tony Abulu (R)
Stephanie Okereke-Idahosa
Isaiah Washington & Jide Kosoko
Hakeem Rahman, Genevieve Nnaji & Isaiah Washington

Genevieve Nnaji, Isaiah Washington & Olumide Bakare
US Shoot
Vivica .A. Fox (L)
Jimmy Jean Louis & Tony Abulu

Evan Brinkman & Isaiah Washington
Bern Cohen, Vivica .A. Fox, Tony Abulu & Ebbe Bassey
If you missed the feature, here is the movie’s story line
Brilliant cancer specialist Dr. Michael Durant is emotionally troubled, wrestling with the traumatic loss of his 10 year old daughter from cancer. Immersing himself in his work from the hospital, away from his wife who blames him for their child’s death, he forms an unlikely bond with a sick, loving, but rambunctious seven year old boy Sam, the son of a rich Jewish couple who are major contributors to the hospital’s cancer research fund.
Unfortunately, Sam’s health deteriorates drastically, and soon, he slips into a coma, with only a few days to live. Dr. Durant becomes desperate, willing to risk anything to save the child’s life. A surreptitious Nigerian Nurse convinces him to seek the help of Dr. Bello, an uncertified Nigerian Doctor, known in Brooklyn-African underground as a miracle worker.
Dr. Bello, an introvert with a controversial past, secretly visits the child at night and administers a strange African potion, replete with incantations and by the next morning, miraculously, the child begins to recover, the cancer speeding into remission.
The hospital medical board immediately orders an investigation and soon the secret is revealed and Dr. Durant is suspended. Dr. Bello is arrested and charged with medical malpractices. Dr. Durant soon falls into depression after his wife leaves him. Meanwhile, Dr. Bello has fallen critically ill in jail and can only be saved by the ingestion of that same potion that can only be found in the mysterious “garden of life” nestled on the peak of Nigeria”s sky mountains.

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