BRUNO-MARS RELEASES NEW VIDEO (WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN)

KING OF POP AND R&B , BRUNO-MARS, YESTERDAY RELEASE THE VIDEO TO HIS GREAT TRACK, WHEN I WAS YOUR MAN.

TECH ( To download this video, click on it, when it opens, click on the address bar, where you will see the video url, e.g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekzHIouo8Q4, then stroll to the youtube.com, in front of that youtube, put ssyoutube, e.g www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=ekzHIouo8Q4, it will take you to a site where you will be able to download the video in either 3gp or mp4 for your mobile phone.)

Full list of 2013 Grammy Award Winners

 

The 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California Feb. 10, 2013.

The 2013 Grammy Awards may have come and gone but the memory lingers on, check out the full list of winners at the biggest music award event.

Record Of The Year
Lonely Boy – The Black Keys
We Are Young – Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye Featuring Kimbra - WINNER
Thinkin Bout You – Frank Ocean
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift

Album Of The Year
El Camino – The Black Keys
Some Nights – Fun.
Babel – Mumford & Sons - WINNER
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean
Blunderbuss – Jack White

Song Of The Year
The A Team – Ed Sheeran, songwriter (Ed Sheeran)
Adorn – Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel)
Call Me Maybe – Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen)
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Jörgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly Clarkson)
We Are Young – Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe) - WINNER

Best New Artist
Alabama Shakes
Fun. - WINNER
Hunter Hayes
The Lumineers
Frank Ocean

Best Pop Instrumental Album
24/7 – Gerald Albright and Norman Brown
Impressions – Chris Botti - WINNER
Four Hands and a Heart Volume One – Larry Carlton
Live at the Blue Note Tokyo – Dave Koz
Rumbadoodle – Arun Shenoy

Best Pop Solo Performance
Set Fire To The Rain [live] – Adele - WINNER
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) – Kelly Clarkson
Call Me Maybe – Carly Rae Jepsen
Wide Awake – Katy Perry
Where Have You Been – Rihanna

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
Shake It Out – Florence & the Machine
We Are Young – Fun. featuring Janelle Monáe
Somebody That I Used To Know – Gotye Featuring Kimbra - WINNER
Sexy And I Know It – Lmfao
Payphone – Maroon 5 & Wiz Khalifa

Gotye poses with his Grammy awards for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance with Kimbra (R) and for Best Alternative Music Album, backstage at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California Feb. 10, 2013.
Best Pop Vocal Album
Stronger – Kelly Clarkson - WINNER
Ceremonials – Florence and the Machine
Some Nights – fun.
Overexposed – Maroon 5
The Truth About Love – Pink

Best Dance Recording
Levels – Avicii
Let’s Go – Calvin Harris f. Ne-Yo
Bangarang – Skillrex f. Sirah - WINNER
Don’t You Worry Child – Swedish House Mafia f. John Martin
I Can’t Live Without You – Al Walser

Best Dance/Electronica Album
Wonderland – Steve Aoki
Don’t Think – The Chemical Brothers
>Album Title Goes Here< – Deadmau5
Fire & Ice – Kaskade - WINNER
Bangarang – Skillrex

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album
Christmas – Michael Buble
A Holiday Carole – Carole King
Kisses on the Bottom – Paul McCartney - WINNER

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance
I’m Alive – Anthrax
Love Bites (So Do I) – Halestorm - WINNER
Blood Brothers – Iron Maiden
Ghost Walking – Lamb of God
No Reflection – Marilyn Manson
Whose Life (Is it Anyways?) – Megadeth

Best Rock Song
Freedom at 21 – Jack White, songwriter (Jack White)
I Will Wait – Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, Winston Marshall, Marcus Mumford, songwriters (Mumford and Sons)
Lonely Boy – Dan Auerback, Brian Burton, Patrick Carney, songwriters (The Black Keys) - WINNER
Madness – Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)
We Take Care of Our Own – Bruce Springsteen, songwriter (Bruce Springsteen)

Best Rock Album
El Camino – The Black Keys - WINNER
Mylo Xyloto – Coldplay
The 2nd Law – Muse
Wrecking Ball – Bruce Springsteen
Blunderbuss – Jack White

Best Alternative Music Album
The Idler Wheel is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do – Fiona Apple
Biophilia – Bjork
Making Mirrors – Gotye - WINNER
Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming – M83
Bad As Me – Tom Waits

Best Traditional R&B Performance
Lately – Anita Baker
Love On Top – Beyonce - WINNER
Wrong Side of a Love Song – Melanie Fiona
Real Good Hands – Gregory Porter
If Only You Knew – SWV

Best R&B Song
Adorn – Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel) - WINNER
Beautiful Surprise – Tamia Hill, Claude Kelly, Salaam Remi, songwriters (Tamia)
Heart Attack – Benjamin Levin, Rico Love, Tremaine Neverson, songwriters (Trey Songz)
Pray For Me – Antonio Dixon, Kenny Edmonds, Anthony Hamilton, Patrick “JQue” Smith, songwriters (Anthony Hamilton)
Refill – Arhyl “DJ” Camper, Elle Varner, Andrew “Pop” Wansel, songwriters (Elle Varner)

Best Urban Contemporary Album
Fortune – Chris Brown
Kaleidoscope Dream – Miguel
Channel Orange – Frank Ocean - WINNER

Best R&B Album
Black Radio – Robert Glasper Experiment - WINNER
Back to Love – Anthony Hamilton
Write Me Back – R. Kelly
Beautiful Surpise – Tamia
Open Invitation – Tyrese

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration
Wild Ones – Flo Rida Featuring Sia
No Church In The Wild – Jay-Z, Kanye West f. Frank Ocean, The-Dream - WINNER
Tonight (Best You Ever Had) – John Legend f. Ludacris; Cherry Wine – Nas f. Amy Winehouse
Talk That Talk – Rihanna f. Jay-Z

Best Rap Song
Daughters – Nasir Jones & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Patrick Adams, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer & Paul Leka, songwriters) (Nas)
Lotus Flower Bomb – Olubowale Akintimehin, S. Joseph Dew, Jerrin Howard, Walker Johnson & Miguel Jontel Pimentel, songwriters (Wale Featuring Miguel)
Mercy – Sean Anderson, Mike Dean, Tauheed Epps, Willie Hansbro, Malik Yusef Jones, Anthony Khan, Stephen Taft, James Thomas, Terrence Thornton, Herbert Turner & Kanye West, songwriters (Denzie Beagle, Winston Riley, Reggie Stepper & Reggie Williams, songwriters)
The Motto – Dwayne Carter, Aubrey Graham, Noah “40″ Shebib & Tyler Williams, songwriters (Drake Featuring Lil’ Wayne)
“..” in Paris – Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis & Kanye West, songwriters (W.A. Donaldson, songwriter) (Jay-Z & Kanye West) - WINNER
Young, Wild and Free – Calvin Broadus, Chris Brody Brown, Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine, Peter Hernandez & Cameron Thomaz, songwriters (T. Bluechel, M. Borrow, T. Griffin, K. Jackson, N. Lee & M. Newman, songwriters) (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa Featuring Bruno Mars)

Best Rap Album
Take Care – Drake - WINNER
Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1 – Lupe Fiasco
Life is Good – Nas; Undun – The Roots
God Forgives, I Don’t – Rick Ross
Based on a T.R.U. Story – 2 Chainz

Best Country Song
Blown Away – Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins, songwriters (Carrie Underwood) - WINNER
Cost of Livin’ – Phillip Coleman & Ronnie Dunn, songwriters (Ronnie Dunn)
Even if it Breaks Your Heart – Will Hoge & Eric Paslay, songwriters (Eli Young Band)
So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore – Jay Knowles & Adam Wright, songwriters (Alan Jackson)
Springsteen – Eric Church, Jeff Hyde & Ryan Tyndell, songwriters (Eric Church)
Best Country Album
Uncaged – Zac Brown Band - WINNER
Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes
Living for a Song: A Tribute to Hank Cochran – Jamey Johnson
Four the Record – Miranda Lambert
The Time Jumpers – The Time Jumpers

Best Long-form Music Video
Big Easy Express – Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Old Crow Medicine Show - WINNER
Bring Me Home Live 2011 – Sade
Radio Music Society – Esperanza Spalding
Get Along – Tegan and Sara
From the Sky Down – U2

Source: trends

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happy birthday to a celebrity jide kosoko

 
Today (January 12) is the birthday of popular veteran actor, Jide Kosoko. He was born in 1954. He is from Lagos Island, Lagos State (Nigeria). He attended  Yaba College of Technology where he studied Business Administration. He also attended Lagos School of Drama (Theatre Arts).
He started acting in 1964 at the age of 10. Comfortable in both English and Yoruba films, some of his movies are The Meeting, Last Flight To Abuja, The Figurine, Jenifa, Bolode O Ku, Kanyinsola, Oogun Aje, and Omo Iya Meta Leyi.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIR LLNP
SOURCE: NOLLYWOODMINDSPACE

Wizkid Moves into New House, shared pics on twitter

good move for him... all the  best bro

Celebrity Photographer Toni Tones Takes on Acting

A press release from her people after the cut. Did I hear you say acting just got better, yeah something like that. We need new faces.


Photographer Toni tones continues to show us how multi talented she is, she has established herself as one of Nigeria's most sought after photographers. She also runs a highly popular online fashion magazine, thefancyhub.com and is currently the voice of Mavin records, doing voice overs as their 'mavinbot'.

Now you can stamp actress on her CV as she stars in the new drama series 'Gidi Culture'.

The drama series has been described as a representative of the Nigerian Youth, and draws from many of their experiences. In the series, it shows the lives of  several young people from different walks of life as they relate to each other under various climates of prosperity and privation often associated with life in Gidi (Nigeria).

Toni Tones plays The show’s protagonist, Halima Dan-Ladi Adebayo who is a naïve upper class Nigerian attending graduate school in New York City. When a grave accident occurs in her apartment, Halima’s divorced Mother, Mariam Dan-Ladi, coerces her daughter to return to Nigeria indefinitely and attend the Lagos Business School. Life in Gidi exposes Halima to a whole new world she never knew existed.

Will she ultimately succeed in this challenge of familiarizing herself with Gidi Culture and come to terms with her new reality? Or will she plummet into bad company and fall prey to the enmity amassed by some of Nigeria’s frustrated youth? Only time will tell as life unfolds in “Gidi Culture.”

We have a feeling we'll be hearing a lot more of Toni Tones this year and we can’t wait to see what more she has in store.

SUNNY OKOSUN'S SON RELEASED FROM JAIL OVER ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN NKIRU SYLVANUS' KIDNAP

One of the sons of late music icon Sunny Okosun has been released from jail after being arrested over his alleged involvement in the kidnap of Nkiru Sylvanus and Kenneth Okolie.

Jerry Okosun, who also works for the Imo State government as Director General of Student Affairs, was released January 5th after spending 11 days in police cell in Owerri with other suspected kidnappers.

Jerry was arrested on Christmas Day because for some weird reason, the kidnappers contacted him to negotiate the release of Nkiru Sylvanus. Jerry acted as a middle man for Nkiru's family, the Imo State government and the kidnappers. He was the one that negotiated the N8 million ransom that was eventually paid to secure Nkiru Sylvanus and Kenneth Okolie's release.

After their release, the Imo State Government Chief of Staff ordered Jerry's arrest because they claimed to have found some incriminating text messages on his phone connecting him to the crime...and also because Jerry had been insisting on the government paying N15million as ransom. Jerry says he's innocent.

Tonto Dikeh Reacts to D'banj... I Will Gladly Accept His Offer

Remember D'banj said in his recent interview that he would love to sign Tonto to his Record Label and make her blow? Well Tonto already replied him. She says she will gladly accept his offer. There we go, the music industry is about to vibrate once again, it’s the koko master and poko baby. #POKO

Yvonne Nwosu and Ice Prince Pictured in Bed Together (GOSSIP)

Yvonne posted the picture of herself and Ice prince in bed together on Instagram and tagged it 'Aint nobody's business'. Lol

“We had chemistry” – Olu Maintain talks about collabo with US rapper, 50 Cents

Award-winning singer, Olu Maintain’s R&B single, Nawti, released last year enjoyed impressive reviews from pundits at home and abroad and won a couple of awards too. His new single, Hypnotize Me featuring American rapper, 50 Cent and Velvet Voiced songbird, Olivia was released yesterday and he hopes to make a big impact in the industry with this musical marriage.

He speaks to Lanre Odukoya on how he has fared in the recent past, new plans and sundry issues

WINNING NMVA AWARD…

It just makes me feel that hard work has indeed paid off, having been quiet for about three years and nominations popping out everywhere to the extent that Nawti won the Best Video of NEA Awards in New York. Nawti was also nominated as the Best R&B Song at the Hip Hop World Awards and I learnt that the only reason it wasn’t nominated as the Best Video at the Hip Hop World Awards was that no video directed by a foreigner is ever nominated. I don’t know why. They should have asked because the director of Nawti video is Kehinde Nayomi Smith and she’s a Nigerian. She was in Nigeria recently for the first time when I won the NMVA Award. But going forward, 2012 has been a very eventful year because my target was to release the album for 2012. With success of Nawti and the dynamism which the music industry was taking, I slowed down on the songs I had recorded initially because I have not been satisfied that I have put in my best into the ‘CHOOSEN ONE’ album. So, I went back to the studio and stared recording again. But now, I can confidently say that the album is coming out in the first quarter of this year and the second track on the album titled ‘Hypnotize Me’ features two international artistes.

ABOUT THE TITLE OF THE ALBUM…

The reason it’s ‘CHOOSEN ONE’ with double ‘o’ is that it’s a ten track album and each of the letters that come together to form the acronym represents each track on the album. There’s a remix of Nawti in the works and I found a new PR team in America called KNX based in Los Angeles and they’re trying to stock my songs and see the possibility of it pre-listed on mainstream radio and the response has been positive. They’re the ones making collaborations with the international acts that I’ve been working with. For me, doing collaboration with any international artiste should not just be by the star power of the artiste; it should be by merit that this artiste can genuinely do justice to the song in question. So, if I was asked who I would love to do collaboration with; a female singer that is equally as pretty and has a beautiful voice, my choice would be Olivia because I’ve always been her fan. So, when we met and I played her the song, she liked it and said she was willing to do it. Then we met in New York at the Platinum Studio owned by Jerry Wonder, one of the most sought after producers in the world. Coincidentally, Olivia is Jerry Wonder’s new artiste as well. 50 Cent has his lines on this track too. And there was this chemistry upon our meeting and we did the song with a beautiful experience and the video too is on the way. Everything is pretty much falling into place and I’m more than happy that I’ve waited this long. In terms of quality, you should never compromise because you have the obligation to always beat your best. So far, my name has evolved from Mr. Yahooze to Mr. Nawti. So, I look at Nawti as the best effort that I’ve put out there and Hypnotize Me has to come to beat what Nawti has done.

ASSESSMENT OF THE INDUSTRY IN 2012…

In all fairness, the industry has evolved bigger and more eventful in 2012. The Nigerian music industry is breaking more frontiers, Afro Beat is now a genre that’s now officially accepted in the UK and the larger parts of Europe and we have international record labels signing Nigerian artistes. We have more collaboration with international artistes as well. 2012 was big and 2013 is going to be bigger. This is encouraging from what the industry used to be some ten years ago. This is just a motivation to keep striving harder yearning for music that has substance. Nigerian music industry has gained a lot although; in its growth, it still lacks some level of development in terms of structure. Recently, I learnt that COSON has been able to get some level of publishing for some Nigerian artistes who have had songs over time. I’ve not got anything from COSON but that is a welcome development from COSON because Nigeria is the only developing country in the world where artistes don’t get publishing for airplay. Go to the UK and the US, one of the major income generating avenues for artistes is shows/concerts but everywhere else in the world publishing plays a larger part in financial rewards that an artiste gets. So for COSON to have intervened to forcefully demand for what is the right of Nigerian artistes, I think it’s a positive development. It’s like a marriage. A typical young man is not ready for marriage but when you find yourself in a situation where it’s inevitable to be in that circumstance, you deal with it. You manage it and you excel in it. So, if the Nigerian media hides behind the excuse that it’s not ready yet, nothing will move forward. Saying you’re not developed enough to impact in policies that the Western world has been doing for decades, you’re basically running from responsibilities. It’s like a loser’s statement; that it’s not going to be easy is not an excuse for it not to start. COSON has started. If everyone has that mentality that we want to follow the structure that we look up to in the west, then it can in no way be a step in the wrong direction.

2013 OF MY DREAM…

2012 for me was a production phase. It was a phase where Olu Maintain came out of a three year hiatus and when he came out, he made a statement. So, the Olu Maintain brand is now known as one that doesn’t make a statement every time, but when it does, he gets it right. Coming up from a split in a group called Maintain, it made a global statement with Yahooze. And after three years hiatus, he made a statement again with Nawti, both the video and audio and won awards. So, in 2013, you can only expect that the production phase is over and it’s now an exhibition phase. Tours, endorsements, concerts are in the offing for the brand Olu Maintain in 2013.

COLLABORATION WITH NIGERIANS…

There’s a track in my album titled ‘Naija A-list’ and it’s a beat produced by a young producer, Yung D. He has produced quite a number of successful songs in 2012 and one of them is Timaya’s ‘Bum Bum’. This is the part I want to have collaboration with five best Nigerian rappers, so I called it ‘Naija A-list’. I have my choices but I’m not going to subject the feature on the song to my decision making alone. I want to let my fans decide who the best five are. It will be an online campaign and people are going to vote for their five best Naija rappers which will be like a survey among industry heads and fans out there.

MY PRODUCTION TEAM…

Hypnotize Me featuring Olivia was produced by the same guy who produced Nawti – Tayo Adeyemi. The Dancia, an upbeat track was produced by a young man called DJ Firm and I also worked with Yung D to produce about two songs in the album.

source: Daily POst

Kanye West and Kim K splashed $11 million on California mansion home

Kanye west and Kim Kardashian just dropped $11 million for a 14,000-square-foot mansion (pictured above) in a gated community in Bel Air, CA.

The luxury home, which is under construction, (pictured above) will have a gym, a movie theater, full hair and makeup salon, bowling alley, basketball court, indoor and outdoor pool.

source: lindaikeji

Don Jazzy Asked His Thugs To Beat Me Up- Princewill Ojukwu ( PHOTOS)

According to a report by Stella Dimokokorkus, Don Jazzy is being accused by a Lagos socialite Princewill Ojukwu of battery, oppression and dehumanization. Princewill alleges that he had a row with Don Jazzy at his newly opened club POP, which led to the latter ordering his thugs to beat "the life out of him."

Please note that the picture above was taken on January 7, 2013. Ojukwu still walks around in pains, cannot wear shoes and has constant migraine.

Don Jazzy sent an sms some days back apologising and asking for an account number to send money for the hospital bill, but Mr Ojukwu says;

'' Its not about the money,this could happen to anyone,it is abuse of power and needs to be checked before someone is killed all in the name of the other being a celebrity.Don Jazzy stood there pinging on his blackberry as his thugs beat me up,that is the last thing i remember before i fainted.it....''

  See the letter written by Princewill's lawyers to the Inspector General of Police.

 

PHOTOSPEAK: Tonto Dikeh goes blonde, SHUN CRITICS

Tonto Dikeh has once again shunned her critics and not giving a damn and had gone blonde for her debut music video “itz Ova”.
All through 2012, the diva who gradually turned a musician following her release of two singles ‘itz Ova’ and ‘high’, was a subject of controversy in the media.
She decided to rock a blonde hair for the video which was shot at the Koga Studio in Oregun, Lagos on the 6th of January 2013.
The music video “Itz Ova” will premiere soon.
SOURCE: DAILY POST

Photo: Darey, Ice Prince on set of video shoot for “Asiko” in South Africa

R&B boss Darey recently traveled to South Africa to shoot the video for his last single ‘Asiko’ which features rapper Ice Prince and South African Hip-Hop group Jozi. to be directed by Mark Hofemeyr

Photo credit: TheNetng.com

Tonto Dikeh’s new look ?

The controversial Nollywood actress turned musician releases the photos believe to be her new look for the main time. What do you peeps think about it, do describe her in one word.

 

so funny a lady...