Category: ENTERTAINMENT

Amidst the continuous spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic around the world, award-winning Ghanaian Hip-Hop/Afrobeat singer and rapper, M.anifest, postpones his London show. The show which was scheduled to take place at the XOYO club London on the 28th of May, 2020, with a host of talented musicians, has now been postponed for the safety and wellbeing of crew members and fans. Expressing regret on the postponement, M.anifest who recently released the visuals for the title track of his EP, ‘The Gamble’ says: “Due to Coronavirus, I am sad to announce I will…

The management of Duke Concept Entertainment, conveners of Davido’s “A Good Time Tour” scheduled to take place across North America and Canada in March/April 2020, has postponed the ongoing tour.  This is as a result of the US government’s instruction to restrict large gatherings at this time, due to the Covid-19 outbreak in New York City. In light of recent updates concerning the impact and continued spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19), we deeply regret to announce the postponement of all tour dates. Our team has tried everything in our ability to make…

Over the weekend, Grammy Award-nominated Afro-fusion pioneer, Burna Boy received a gold plaque for his 2018 released single, “On the Low” which went gold in France. During a dinner organized at Guise Trattoria restaurant, Paris, France, to celebrate this tremendous feat, the gold plaque was presented to the singer for the single which has garnered over 15 million streams as of February 2020 in France, which is equivalent to 100,000 pure sales. As they normally would, the plaque was prepared by his label, Atlantic Records. “On the Low” was released…

Nigerian multi-platinum selling recording artist, Asa brings the Lucid Album Tour home to Nigeria with “Asa Live In Lagos” scheduled to take place on April 11th, 2020, at the Eko Convention Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. Since its release in October 2019, the Lucid album which chronicles the 12-year journey from Asa’s critically acclaimed debut eponymous album to now, has enjoyed massive reception from her staunch fans and supporters. Kicking off late November 2019, the Lucid Album Tour has visited major cities in France. Germany and Switzerland, and is now coming…

After 13 years working on several projects with Chocolate City Music; M.I Abaga has moved on with his career as he reveals his own imprint ‘Incredible Music’. This was made known by M.I Abaga yesterday while he announced his new work ‘Judah The EP‘ which serves as his debut project under his new imprint. According to M.I Abaga on Instagram; There is a lot of truth in my new EP the “Judah EP”1. I had a dream that CBN would be the greatest group the world had ever seen.. it was on…

With the release of his enormous breakout album, African Giant, Nigerian-bred Burna Boy is staking a claim as one of the biggest stars on the global music scene—a crossover sensation who refuses to compromise. Instead, he’s letting the world cross over to him. New York monthly men’s magazine, GQ features Burna Boy in an exclusive interview takes us a little back in time to his appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s ‘The Tonight Show’, the events that ran up to the release of the African Giant album, his Grammy nomination and his momentous breakout…

Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola popularly known as DJ Cuppy officially announces the name of her anticipated Debut EP, Original Copy, a project set for release this year. The name “Original Copy” which was chosen by her fans is a strong oxymoron that portrays Cuppy herself. It accurately depicts the body of work that will showcase Cuppy’s immense talent as a music artist and her diverse knowledge of great sounds .

The first leg of the Midem African Tour 2020 recently took place at the Freeme Space, Nike Art Gallery Road, Lekki, Lagos on Tuesday, February 25th, 2020 Now in its third year, the Lagos forum, which was hosted by OAP Uche Agbai (Sensei Uche), was attended by music industry stakeholders, tech professionals, entertainment lawyers, talent managers and other members of the entertainment industry. Themed “The state of the Nigerian music industry today and its evolution from past years. How the industry copes with the main challenges it faces today and how to…

Following the success of the 2019 African Tour, which took place in Dakar, Lagos, and Douala, the much anticipated Midem African Forum returns to Africa for the third edition of this focus on the region’s music market. Midem’s 2020 African Forum is set to begin with a tour of two key African music cities – Lagos and Cape Town, slated to hold on the 25th and 28th of February, 2020 respectively and culminate during the annual Midem Music Forum scheduled to hold from the 2nd to 5th of June, 2020 at Palais…

Grammy-nominated Afro-fusion pioneer, Burna Boy, fondly called the African Giant, was recently at the 40th BRIT Awards ceremony held on Tuesday, February 18th, 2020 at the O2 Arena, London, where he received a Platinum plaque for taking part in UK rapper, Stormzy’s 2019 single, “Own It”, which also features Ed Sheeran. The single which has made over 600k sales since its release has officially become the number one song of the new decade