Bez has spent the past year recording in studios in New York, Houston, Lagos, and even going to his Northern Nigerian village of Karu, Nassarawa State to work with and record traditional musicians.
Soul singer Bez releases the visuals to his latest single 'There's A Fire'.
Africa Movie Academy Awards to close entry tomorrow (January 31) for this years edition
This years Africa Movie Academy Awards entry closes tomorrow (January 31) with a statement from organisers saying the event will hold in June and the nomination party in April.
The event was shifted in honour of the late Mr. Michael Anyiam-Osigwe, the elder brother of the founder of the awards who passed on recently.
AMAA’s Director of Administration. Tony Anih, said in a statement, “Michael has been a great pillar of support for AMAA since its inception and his untimely death has sure thrown some immediate challenges to us as a body but we are pressing on and we have to change the date from traditional month to April to June to allow us prepare and respond to the current realities.
The actual date for nominations and the main award will be announced in April and June soonest.
Joan Rivers, the razor-witted comic and red carpet queen, died Thursday of complications suffered from minor surgery in New York City a week ago. She was 81.
As she had done throughout the past week, daughter and frequent collaborator Melissa Rivers thanked fans for their well wishes and tireless support.
"It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17 p.m. ET surrounded by family and close friends. My son [Cooper] and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother," Melissa, 46, said in a statement.
"Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support, and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated.
"My mother’s greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon."
Rivers stopped breathing and slipped into cardiac arrest during the Aug. 28 throat procedure at the out-patient clinic Yorkville Endoscopy (which is being probed by the New York Health Department). She was rushed via ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she remained in a medically induced coma through the Labour Day weekend but was not breathing on her own.
On Wednesday, Melissa announced Joan had been "moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable." According to family friend Cindy Adams, the room was professionally decorated with flowers, bows, plants, while show tunes played on CD and a white faux mink blanket covered the bed. Her hair and makeup were kept immaculate — just as Joan would want it.
Late Wednesday, sources tell The Insider with Yahoo, Melissa made the decision to remove her mother from life support.
Joan Rivers, a native New Yorker and relentless worker, had been planning a fall tour of the United Kingdom, Before They Close the Lid, and had a slate of QVC and stateside comedy-show appearances booked through Thanksgiving while also fulfilling her duties as host of E!'s Fashion Police. She last appeared on stage, at New York's Laurie Beechman, on Aug. 27, the night before her throat procedure.
Indeed, Rivers was a pioneering entertainer and comic who kicked in walls, ceilings, and anything else that got in her way during an up-and-down, 50-plus-year career.
"We wanted to do it, and we did it, and we don't give a damn," Rivers once said. At the time, she was talking about her 1978 big-screen comedy, Rabbit Test, which she wrote, directed and willed to life, but she could have been talking about any stage of her show-business run.
On stage, Rivers insulted her way to the top of the comedy world, connecting to fans with her catchphrase, "Can we talk?" On the awards-show red carpet, she spoke her mind on fashion and celebrity, helping define E!'s network brand and creating a spectator sport and making "Who are you wearing?" part of the pop-culture vernacular. On late-night TV, she crashed the boys' club as Johnny Carson's first permanent guest host on The Tonight Show, and, later, as the host of her own show on the then-fledgling Fox network.
Rivers reinvented her career about as many times as the outspoken advocate of plastic surgery freshened her look. She was so tireless you could get tired just thinking about the calendar she kept.
Joan Rivers and daughter, Melissa
Born June 8, 1933, Rivers anchored E!'s Fashion Police, a spin off of the Live from the Red Carpet coverage she began doing for the network in the mid-1990s. She hosted the online talk show, In Bed with Joan. She appeared with Melissa, her only child, in the WEtv reality series, Joan and Melissa: Joan Knows Best? She appeared on — and won — The Celebrity Apprentice. She hawked jewelry on QVC. She guest starred on an episode of the Louis C.K. comedy series, Louie.
In a statement Thursday, E! saluted Rivers. “For decades Joan has made people laugh, shattered glass ceilings and revolutionized comedy. She was unapologetic and fiercely dedicated to entertaining all of us.... The world is less funny without her in it. Today our hearts are heavy knowing Joan will not be bounding through the doors."
Basically, she was too pragmatic to turn down work — work is what she did. When Space balls, the 1987 Mel Brooks big-screen spoof, went the animated-series route in 2008, she was back as the voice of Dot Matrix. Her last tweet, on Aug. 27, was a plug for her Fashion Police special on the Emmys and the Video Music Awards.
"I'm never gonna retire," Rivers told People last year.
Sound Sultan performs his new track 'Ishe' with Sarkodie at Pulse VIP Night.
During the early hours of Saturday morning, Piccolomondo was the place to be!!!
Another episode of the hot weekly party; the Pulse VIP Night was held at Piccolomondo at Victoria Island Lagos.
MTN ambassador Sound Sultan, real name Fasasi Olanrewaju stormed the club yesterday with two artists under his tutelage.
Also present at Pulse VIP Night was Tee-Y Mix; Temitayo Ibitoye the A-list music producer, a judge on MTN Project Fame West Africa, and a man who is behind many amazing songs that have come out of Nigeria.
The artist who is a UN ambassador for peace only just released a hot new track with phenomenal Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie called 'Ishe' which was on repeat at the club and Sound Sultan thrilled the guests when he performed it live!!!
If you missed this weeks edition, next week Friday is another chance to party with your favourite celebrity at the Pulse VIP Night.
In his latest rant during the last stop of his Yeezus Tour in Toronto on December 23, Kanye promised not to say anything negative about anyone or anything for at least six months...
Everything I'm saying that’s not allowed, soak it in right now. This might be the last time y’all hear me talk s*** for a long time. Might be another like 6 months, at least. You’re just gonna have to run back the interviews and sh*t if you wanna hear some realness!
"I’m gonna tell y’all right now that all of the ideas, what they call the rants the streams of consciousness that I express, I told y’all, save those tapes and everything because I’ve decided to completely focus everything in 2014, on new ideas and on creative outlets. I’m not [going to] ever bring up Nike again, and the only way I’ll bring them up is in a positive light … I’ll never bring up the Grammys again in a negative light, because I actually appreciate the 21 Grammys that I did win.”
"Because I’m not [trying] to be a dude that has all the opportunities in the world and only focuses on the negative, or complains about it, or just gets in some type of zone that just having to turn up all the time and sh*t. So I’m letting you all now that this is the last Yeezus show, and this is the last time you’ll ever hear me say negative about anyone.."