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IF you love the sounds of reggae, UB40's hit songs and you love a good open-air concert but haven't bought your tickets for the much-anticipated upcoming show, then you'd better do so quickly as the tickets are selling fast.
One of most popular international bands yet to perform in Namibia, the UB40 for Hope concert is
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Comedian-cum-singer Freddy "Kapfupi" Manjalima is one person who can safely smile as the year comes to an end.
For a man who started off as a farm boy, to a main street theatre actor and only recently to be a musician, his fortunes have been on a gradual rise, something which he says, he never imagined
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Eutykhia, the Greek goddess of good fortune and luck, recently smiled on President Yoweri Museveni. Whatever the politics of Museveni's accidental rap song, You Want Another Rap?, we must admit that it is just good and funny listening to. Coming at the start of the campaigns, the rap has seen a lot of unpaid-for publicity, and made more headlines
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Doubts about the fruition of the upcoming Ghana Movie Awards was laid to rest last Friday evening after G.P Limited, who is organizing the awards in collaboration with Image Consortium, released nominations to officially kick start the awards ceremony scheduled for December 25.
This was at a well attended Nominees party held at the Golden Tulip
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Who doesn't know Emeka Ike? The Nollywood lover boy/badboy is one of the stars you must have missed on your TV screen for quite a while due to the alleged lull in the industry. Morakinyo Olugbiji had a chat with the father of three in Lagos on Sallah Day.
It's been quite a while I saw
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Your UDR relentless gossip is bringing you more no holds bared tales from the just concluded SMVA’s at Expo Hall, Eko Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
The Mo’hits crew (Don Jazzy, Dbanj, Dr sid, D’prince) were on stage to do their thing and the crowd’s reception reaffirmed the fact that they own the country’s biggest hits of the
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 25th Nov, 2010 at 12:31PM in Entertainment Source:starafrica.com
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Muthoni the Drummer Queen arrived in Amsterdam for one week on Sunday the 7th of November by invitation of the organization of “Ondernemen zonder Grenzen” where she performed live on stage for the crowd made up of people in the Dutch business scene and soon to be entrepreneurs who were wowed by her on stage performance.
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 24th Nov, 2010 at 09:03AM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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The fastest rapper in Ghana Sarkodie who led the nominees from Ghana with three nominations alongside Becca, Samini, Jon Germain and Jayso is the only Ghanaian artiste who carried home an award for the “Best Collaboration of The Year” award with the video of his song “Lay Away” which features Sway from UK.
The award ceremony
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 22nd Nov, 2010 at 02:08PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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On Wednesday November 17, multiple award-winning rapper Naeto C graduated with a Master’s of Science in Energy Economics from the University Of Dundee, Scotland, one of the leading energy schools in the world.
Over the last few months, the emcee had been shuffling between his academic work, touring the globe and recording new material for his
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 19th Nov, 2010 at 08:04PM in Entertainment Source:nigeriafilms.com 0
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In what can be described as her most in-depth interview ever, Nigerian actress and Face of MUD cosmetics Genevieve Nnaji sat down with Ovation’s Patience Ikpe and chatted about love, life, charity, family and so much more.
•Genevieve started her acting career at the age of eight with Ripples.
•She is hoping to
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 19th Nov, 2010 at 01:57PM in Entertainment Source:Nigeriafilms.com 0
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Son of a Hunter and Fida tigi (masters of plants /healer) father, Mamady Keita was born in 1950 in Wassolon Village, Guinea.
His mother wished to know what plans life had for the son that she was carrying and therefore decided to consult a fortune teller which told here that he would be their last son.
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 18th Nov, 2010 at 05:02PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 1
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Juba — "I sing for Separation," declares a South Sudanese musician, Mary Boyoi, as she refuted allegation that she was supporting unity of Sudan.
Mary told Sudan Tribune that a story carried by Khartoum-based newspapers that she was supporter of unity between North and South was not true, threatening to sue the paper in court for
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Women’s Development Fund (AWDF), the first Africa-wide grant-making foundation recently celebrated its 10th Anniversary in grand style to recognize and celebrate its status as a leading feminist philanthropic institution on the continent.
Hundreds of women from across converged in Accra to partake in forums and activities to herald a decade of inspiration and empowerment for women
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 18th Nov, 2010 at 10:03AM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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THE music of some great legends is on the verge of losing its appeal and lustre owing to the remixes being done by some artistes.
While there is nothing wrong in remixes, some of these renditions however, end up detracting from the original versions to the extent that they lose value and appeal.
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The Penga sound is set to consolidate its place in local Sungura circles following the release of an album by former Pengaudzoke bassist Patrick Jevason.
Listening to the album for the first time, one would be forgiven that it's the music of the original Pengaudzoke featuring brothers Daiton and Josphat Somanje.
But this
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 16th Nov, 2010 at 07:17PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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American gospel icon and queen of praise, Cece Winans touched down Tuesday afternoon at the Kotoka International Airport, all ready for the 2010 edition of Adom Praiz 2010.
Accompanied by her husband Alvin Love, son Alvin III and a nine-member band that will lead the line-up of accomplished local stars including Kwaku Gyasi, Ernest Opoku, Florence Obinim, Soul
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The new African Super group ONE8 released their track: "Hands across the world" produced and written by superstar R.Kelly. The supergroup consisting of top artists from different countries in the continent. The impressive list is made up of : 2face - Nigeria , Amani - Kenya, Fally Ipupa - DRC Congo, Movaizhaleine - Gabon, 4x4 - Ghana, Navio -
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 15th Nov, 2010 at 03:36PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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The multi-talented Sauti Sol is nothing you have ever experienced before. The African acoustic band consists of 4 members; Bien-Aime Baraza, Willis Chimano, Delvin Mudigi and Polycarp Otieno who met in high school and originally started as an accapella group. When they cleared their O-levels in the year 2005 they decided to take up music professionally.
The band
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 13th Nov, 2010 at 06:03PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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During my series of notes in the run up to Nigeria's fiftieth independence anniversary...,
...I expressed a desire to grow Nigeria's entertainment industry into a world class one where we would see Nollywood movies being played in theaters and grossing hundreds of millions of Naira as well as have recording artists like Tuface Idibia, Dbanj,
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In her previous lifes, the girl currently known as Muthoni Ndonga was among other things the head of shaka zulu’s harem , a cunning street urchin who converted into a renown mystic healer in current day Armenia, a polar bear, a Chinese dumpling maker, a fierce general under Napoleon. Her adventures run concurrently with 300 wars, the invention of
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 11th Nov, 2010 at 07:36PM in Entertainment Source:Starafrica.com 0
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When
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Virtuoso and genius of the Kora, he is better known under the pseudo El Hadji CISSOKO and is issued from a famous family of griots (outstanding musicians and singers).
He was very young when he amazed and surprised all his circle by his vocal qualities.
Through times, he meets and shares the stage and studio
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Hip life musician, Castro D'Destroyer known in real life as Theophilus Tagoe has reacted to assertions that he owes the success of his hit track, African Girls to Black Stars striker, Asamoah Gyan.
Castro speaking in an exclusive interview with Myjoyonline.com in Kumasi over the weekend said the success and popularity of the song was not
read more..Posted by: Staff Writer on 9th Nov, 2010 at 01:29PM in Entertainment Source:myjoyonline.com 0
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After controversies surrounding the King of Pop Michael Jackson`s death finally another new set of controversies has emerged stating that Jackson's latest album which is slated to release on December 14, 2010 is fake. According to various news sources there seem to be an ongoing debate as whether the vocals in the track has been really recorded by the
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Several months after the plush launch of what was to be Ghana’s foremost movie awards to celebrate industry excellence, word on the streets is that the initiative has fallen through.
The perception stems from the 'golden silence' of organisers - Item 13 House - who planned the GhallyGold Awards as an annual event.
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