As far as today’s Nigerian music is
concerned, its story is incomplete
without these musicians. They are
the movers and shakers of the
industry, and their finger prints have
shaped our music and made it acceptable to the world. They make
bulk of their money from
entertainment shows and events in
the form of performance fees and
corporate endorsements. However, controversy have ensued on
who is the greatest among them as
regards fans, annual earnings and
deals among others. Come with us as
we take you into their world. 2face 2face whose real names are Innocent
Ujah Idibia ranks among the very
best of Nigerian music stars. At the
time, he came to limelight after
leaving the now defunct Plantashun
Boyz, 2face was virtually an unknown name in the nation’s music scene.
But his desire to go solo under Kennis
Music, and floating his own record
label, Hypertek Entertainment,
marked a turning point in his career.
And today, 2face is a crowd puller any day. His “African Queen” song released in
2006, was used in the soundtrack for
the film Phat Girlz, which was
released internationally. He also
released a promotion album in 2008,
releasing the single, “Enter the Place”. Problems with album
distribution in 2007, caused as shift
of the release date of the album from
2008 to 2009. Tuface released two
singles from the international version
of his Unstoppable album and is the first Nigerian artist to have an
appropriately priced international
album. *Tu Face, D’banj The Unstoppable International
Edition album, released in 2010, won
two awards at the 2010 SoundCity
Music Video Awards. He also won the
Channel O Music Video Awards Best
African Western award and the MTV Africa Music Awards for Best Male and
Artist of the year. He is part of the
Sony All African One8 Project
alongside seven other musicians
across Africa recording a single with
R.Kelly and Prince Lee titled “Hands Across the World.” Although he just joined Twitter, he
already has over eighteen thousand
followers. Few months back, the
rumour mills had it that the African
Queen crooner paid the sum of N10
million each to Pero and Sunbo – his other baby mamas – as settlement
before going ahead to marry, Annie
Macaulay. He has since opened a
multimillion naira supermarket for
Annie, plus other deals he’s secured
for himself. He’s speculated to worth over N550m
with endorsement deals with
Guinness, Airtel which earns him
N20m and N22m respectively. He
charges between N4 million and N5
million for shows. The artiste has invested heavily in real estate and
stocks which is fetching him huge
money. D’banj Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo is popularly
known as D’banj. He has won several
music awards including the awards
for Best African Act at the MTV Europe
Music Awards 2007, Artist of the Year
at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009 and BET Awards of 2011 for Best
International Act; Africa. He adopted the stage name D’banj, a
combination of his first name Dapo
and his surname Oyebanjo. D’banj is
currently best known internationally
for his 2012 summer hit Oliver Twist,
an uptempo dance fusion of Afro- Beats and electronic dance music that
topped the African charts 2011 and
was a top 10 hit in the UK singles
chart in 2012 reaching no.2 on the
UK R&B chart. He owns businesses like a TV reality
show called Koko Mansion, a hangout
in Nigeria and US, Koko Lounge, Koko
Foundation and Koko Mobile. D’banj
also signed a deal with Glo worth N7
million. Power Fist and Virgin Colur soft drink also signed him into a
multi-naira deals, and another
multimillion deal with a popular
jeweler. He has a deal with Chris Aire as the
face of his watches, and another with
UAC foods. He collects between N5m
to N7m for local gigs, between $80
000 and $150 000 for African shows,
E40 000 and E60 000 for UK shows and $50 000 to $60 000 for American
gigs. And like Don Jazzy, he also
earned himself a record deal with
Kanye West. P-Square They are identical twins who have
performed and released several
records under the Square Records.
They remain the best R&B duo group
in Nigeria and in 2011, they were
signed under Konvict Music label owned by Akon. Among the two, Peter is said to be a
better singer while Paul dances
better. Songs like Beautiful Oyinye,
their first album, Last Nite, their
second album, Get Squared recorded
a high rate of success. Their songs always won awards because of their
new dance moves and excellent
quality. It’s best selling album, Game
Over sold over 8 million copies
worldwide in 2007. in 2009, they
released another Danger with both winning awards like the BET and MTV
Best Act. The duo just acquired a private jet.
But before then, they were said to be
having problems with their landlord
who allegedly gave them a quit
notice. They have since built a
mansion they call “Square Ville”, valued at N300m. Both have now entered into a
distribution deal with Universal Music
Group for the distribution of the CD’s,
DVD’s globally. They KORA award they won in 2010
came with the sum of N150m. Shortly
after, they got a deal with Glo worth
N240m for four years. Their American
tour of seven cities earned them a
whooping sum of N150m. They own Rayfield Hotel, Jos and two other
manufacturing factories where they
built a bakery and pure water
manufacturing companies also in Jos.
They are said to charge N2 million
per show.

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