Friday, December 4, 2009

MAN PULLED BY EARS DURING NYOTA NDOGO PERFORMANCE.

Family played a major role in Kisii this week during the Nyota Ndogo tour.

When Nyota Ndogo, famed for the song Watu Na Viatu, got on stage, she sang her hit songs Nibebe, Mama Wa Kambo and Tende. When she got to Watu Na Viatu, she asked for a volunteer to dance with her dancer as is her norm.

A man from the crowd got on stage and sat on a chair where he received a dance from Nyota Ndogo's dancer: Zawadi as Nyota went on singing.

No sooner had she reached the climax of the song than a woman got on stage and came closer to the man dressed in 2 leso's. All of a sudden she pulled the man by his ears shouting insults at him. "How dare you come here and get a lap dance while you leave me and the children at home."












The crowd went into uproar with laughter as the man kept on apologising walking off stage.

Nyota Ndogo was touring several towns in Rift Valley including Nakuru, Bomet, Narok and Kisii.


MOMBASA SHOWBIZ PUT ASIDE DIFFERENCES TO ASSIST BEYONCE OFFSET HOSPITAL BILL.


The Mombasa Showbiz Industry comprising of Tabassam Records, Tamasha Entertainers, Buzz Afrique, Quayside Media, Eve Queen Entertainment, Spin World Entertanment, Trybe Deejays among others have come together for one cause: to help Julia Achieng better known as Beyonce offset her hospital bill.

Beyonce was discharged last week after spending a month at the Jocham Hospital piling a bill of half a million.

Word is spoke to DJ Lenium, the PR Manager of the commitee, who informed us of the planning and organziation. " We are working all together, putting our differences aside for unity and that is why we are doing a concert termed as We R 1! on Jamhuri Day which is 2 sided. Apart from working together for unity of the showbiz industry, we also remember thats the day we got our independence and that means we should be one tribe - The Kenyan Tribe."

The concert will feature more than 20 artists including Nyota Ndogo, Daddy Selle, Ukoo Flani, Bantu, Natty OJ, Rojo among others. 8 Dance Crews and 6 DJ's will also grace the occasion including Pilsner Mfalme Coast Finalists Trybe Deejays. The event is set to start at 6pm at the Club Sea Front with several big wigs in the showbiz being in attendance.

Word Is paid Beyonce a visit at home and she looked jubilant with enthusiasm. "Am happy that people are putting their differences aside and ready to give me a lending hand in off setting my hospital bill."

NGANGALITTO SKIPS JIMMY GAIT COAST LAUNCH.

Tusker Project Fame 3 Finalist Nagngalitto will be skipping Jimmy Gait's Video Album launch at the Coast this weekend after he sent word that he wont be attending.


According to Jimmy Gait, Ngangalitto informed him that he will be out of the country and will not be able to attend the event.

The Video Album Launch, set to happen at Milele Beach Hotel on Sunday afternoon, will feature several artists including Daddy Owen, Allan Aaron, Bantu, Marion Shako, Betty Bayo and NANA Dancers.

Rumour has it that the Project Fame Finalist set to be performing at Club Lambada the following weekend, will be doing a Jitokezee Final Call in Nairobi.

MR BLU GOES BACK TO SCHOOL.


Mr Blu aka Herry Samir is finally going to school. The artist says that he plans to go to British Council and take a course in the english language so as to help him take his music worldwide and win more fans with his swag


Currently, he is working on his next Album 'Anatafutwa' which will be released in the next few days under Zizzou Entertainment. Before that, he plans on dropping his video 'Tupo pamoja' which he is working on at the moment .

TUSKER PROJECT FAME JUDGE LAUNCHES ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY.


Producer Hermy B is about to launch B Hitz company early next year together with his buddies AY and Mwana FA. Hermy says it will redefine the whole entertainment thing.


At the moment, they are in talks with some hot artists to be featured in the label. They will also be doing Entertainment, Events, Discos etc

Hermy has crossed borders and produced for some very big names in music worldwide but he prefers to keep it as a surprise to the fans.

Hermy B will be remembered for his work as a judge in Tusker Project Fame.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

WHOM DO YOU THINK WILL WIN BIG BROTHER AFRICA 4?




With the show ending this weekend it's kinda easy though tricky to predict who will walk away Big Brother Africa 4 Winner with the stakes going on a 20% Range.








The nominees, this time not up for eviction but up for winning are 5:
  1. Emma   From Angola
  2. Edward From Naimbia
  3. Mzamo From Malawi
  4. Kevin   From Nigeria
  5. Nkenna From Nigeria
MZAMO


Age 24

Country Malawi

Hometown Blantyre

Occupation PA

Biography Mzamo's favourite food is Asian, Thai, Mexican, French and Mozambican. She's lived in quite a few countries, including England, Malawi, South Africa, France and Mozambique. If she were to win the money, she would sponsor her mother's back operation, a family reunion and a house.




EDWARD

Age 33

Country Namibia

Hometown Windhoek

Occupation Public Relations Officer

Biography Public Relations Officer Edward has 5 sisters and 2 brothers. He’s single – “it’s complicated”, he says and his favourite memory is his mother teaching him everything a father should. “I live by the Oprah Winfrey epithet ‘if you doubt anything, don’t go for it’ and he dislikes inconsiderate people. Having grown up in Sweden, he would love to go back there someday to see his old neighborhood. Edward entered Big Brother for the challenge and the experience and says he would love to take the money back to Namibia.

EMMA


Age 24
Country Angola

Hometown Luanda

Occupation Marketing and Management Student

Biography Emma is a huge basketball fan and also very proud of her national team's achievements as they've won the African championships 9 times in 9 years. Emma has said that she will give viewers what they want: "fun, drama and entertainment". If she wins the prize, Emma will give some of the money to her parents to put towards the house that they have been saving for.




KEVIN


Age 27

Country Nigeria

Hometown Jos

Occupation Entertainer

Biography 27- year- old entertainer Kevin has a BA in English Language and has 7 siblings. He’s proud to be Nigerian because Nigerians stand out and survive any situation – “which is why you’ll find a Nigerian almost anywhere. ” A Manchester United fan whose hobbies include rapping, Kevin would like travel to Hollywood to see a movie in the making there. If he wins Big Brother Revolution, Kevin will spend his money on creating an entertainment empire and will share some of it with friends and family who have stood by him.

NKENNA


Age 23

Country Nigeria

Hometown Owerri

Occupation BSc in Food Science and Technology

Biography Nkenna has 8 brothers and sisters and her favourite food is Noodles and Jollof rice. She is proud to be Nigerian "because we have a strong adaptable culture - that is, we can adapt to any condition and we're also happy people! " She is proud of having launched a campus magazine at school and says her mom is her role because she works hard and struggles to achieve what she wants to - "and she's so talented".




The question on so many people's mind's is WHO will walk away the winner this Sunday?










Big Brother Africa 1 - Cherise (Zambia)










Big Brother Africa 2 - Richard (Tanzania)













Big Brother Africa 3 - Ricco (Angola)










Big Brother Africa 4 - *****












We asked the former housemates in this season of Big Brother Africa to tell us who they think will walk away richer come Sunday!

Look Out For Kenya's Teddy & Jeremy!


THE POWER OF FIVE!








Vote to Keep Your Favourite in the House!

Big Brother wants your Vote: Just remember, you are voting to keep a nominated Housemate in the House!

Which means, the more you vote for your favourite nominated Housemate, the better their chance of staying in the house.

The Housemate who receives the least number of votes will be Evicted.

You can vote to keep a nominated Housemate in the House in three different ways:
1. By sending an SMS
2. Using MXit
3. Via the website, or the wapsite on your mobile phone.





Emma (Angola)






Kevin (Nigeria)





Mzamo (Malawi)





Edward (Namibia)




Nkenna (Nigeria)





BOW WOW SET TO PERFORM AT BIG BROTHER AFRICA 4 FINALE!


With the Finale of M-Net’s BIG BROTHER REVOLUTION just days away, DStv audiences are gearing up to discover just who will be the ultimate winner of the massive USD 200 000 cash prize!


After a rollercoaster 91 days of reality TV action, it will all culminate in a not-to-be missed 2 hour show, starting at 8PM Kenyan Time. And adding to the excitement of the dramatic show, there’s also the big news that international star BOW WOW will be on stage wowing audiences with three of his hit songs!

Bow Wow has been stepping outside of the box since he was 5 years old. That’s when he was discovered by Snoop Dogg and featured on the entertainment icon’s groundbreaking Doggystyle album. After being teamed a few years later with Jermaine Dupri, Lil Bow Wow exploded onto the music scene in 2000 with Beware of Dog, the first in a string of platinum and gold albums (he’s sold more than 10 million albums to date) that spawned six No. 1 singles and such platinum songs as “Let Me Hold You,” “Like You,” Shortie Like Mine” and “Outta My System.” He is also the Youngest Solo Rapper To Ever Hit No. 1, as recognized by the Guinness Book Of World Records. He’s also sold more than 14 million digital assets.

Bow Wow also helped brand and headline the groundbreaking Scream Tour (which sold out Madison Square Garden an astonishing three times) and collaborated in 2007 with R&B star Omarion for the gold-certified Face Off album. His success came from his ability to tap into the mammoth teen market. “There was a big sea of people that hadn’t been touched yet,” Bow Wow explains. “I just happened to be the first one since Kriss Kross to touch them.”

Bow Wow took another monumental step in his development by appearing in the spring/fall 2009 campaign for Ocean Pacific (OP) alongside Solange, AnnaLynn McCord, Brody Jenner and others. He has also signed on to star alongside Ice Cube in the new motion picture “The Lottery Ticket,” in addition to his recurring role in the HBO hit “Entourage.” If that’s not enough, Bow Wow has also joined the Boston Celtics Stephon Marbury’s Starbury movement. Bow Wow was hand-selected by Marbury to be the first entertainer to join Starbury, the athletic apparel and footwear company that is revolutionizing the clothing industry with its stylish and affordable products. “I think Bow has the connection to the fans and the people,” Marbury says. “People feel him. I think his maturity is rising and I think he’s starting to see who he is. It was important for me to try to unite with him because we have the same vision. He wants to create change. He wants to allow people to have and to provide access to all.

Bow Wow’s male and female clothing and sneaker lines will debut in spring 2010. “No one is doing what he’s about to do on the level that he’s about to do it,” Marbury says. “It’s global. He’s going to change the paradigm on how people think of him.” Bow Wow says, “When you purchase anything from my line you’re being a part of the movement because, I’m going to donate 10% of my profits to charities and organizations around the world”.

To Marbury’s point, Bow Wow has been the first rap artist of his generation to become a legitimate entertainer, excelling as rapper, stage performer and actor (“The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” [2006], “Roll Bounce” [2005], “Johnson Family Vacation” [2004] and “Like Mike” [2002; his first movie, it grossed $35 million its first week in theaters], as well as television series “Smallville” [2006] and a recurring role on HBO’s “Entourage” [2008-09], as well as a prominent role in the forthcoming film “Hurricane Season” with Forest Whitaker and Lil Wayne, due in theaters Spring/Summer 2009).

Even when Bow Wow and Jermaine Dupri briefly went their separate ways in 2007, JD admired his pupil’s success from afar, especially considering Bow Wow literally took steps as a community activist by kicking off his “Walk Across America” tour in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 1, 2008. Bow Wow’s efforts resulted in more than 100,000 people registering to vote. “Whatever he’s done, it’s just like the same that it’s always been,” JD says. “It’s just him doing what he wants to do.”

Now reunited and intensely focused on his music career, Bow Wow made a point to humble himself and listen to JD in order to enable the duo to make history again. “When I got back with him,” Bow Wow says, “he pushed me even harder because he knows that I want to be the best.”

And with his latest album, New Jack City II, Bow Wow takes a quantum leap toward being viewed as rap’s best artist. “I am going to be the hottest rapper in 2009,” says Bow Wow, who in December 2008 was named by People Magazine one of the Most Beautiful People in the World. “My momma always told me, ‘If there’s anything you want out of life, you’ve got to claim it.’ So, I’m claiming it.”

Saturday, November 21, 2009

BANTU AND KIMSA IN MCSK MIX UP




Mombasa Based Gospel Artists Bantu and Kimsa met up with a major fracas in Nairobi when they went for their pay from their MCSK offices in Westlands.

“Imagine we there as early as 9am and by that time, the offices were already packed with river road artists like Allan Aaron’s all over the place,” Bantu told Word Is.

He informed us that they were told that the chief accountant had been told that the artist’s money had been stolen miraculously the night before and the artists were not taking it lightly.

“I did not understand how 6 million shillings was left with one man to look after,” said an infuriated Kimsa. “I think that’s mis-management and irresponsibility from MCSK. I want my money no jokes.”

When the 2 artists got an opportunity to talk to the accountant, he claimed they had to wait till the following week.

Our efforts to get in touch with the accountant were futile since his cell phone was off the whole time.



DJ FRIDAH JUMPS SHIP


2008 Coast Music Award Winner For DJ Of The Year DJ Fridah has quit Bella Vista and moved to new club Full Moon.


The Mombasa based DJ has decided to quit the hustling spree and join the new club located on the Mombasa Malindi Road.

“I don’t have much to say but I just needed a fresh start,” she told Word Is.

DJ Fridah who was the only female DJ at the hip pub, was apparently according to the revelers one of the main reasons why many ladies went to Bella Vista since they felt they associated with her.

The word on the street is, Fridah got pissed with having several guest dj’s coming to the pub and the owner not giving her and her 2 colleagues (DJ Kerosene & DJ Benz) a chance to do that.

DJ Fridah is at the new club from Thursday to Sunday and does Ladies Night at Black Havanna.

CIVIL WAR BETWEEN RADIO AND WEASEL


Just a week after being banned from playing their music, drama has started looming in the Goodlyfe Camp between Mowzey Radio and Weasel TV that could lead to a split.


Word Is got information that the pair almost fought during their weekend in Southern Sudan after a bitter dis agreement. The drama began when Radio hit Diamond Oscar who is a member of Goodlyfe Crew and also a good friend of Weasel. The drama was due to the fact that Diamond Oscar had decided to move out with a Dinka girl Radio had early spoken to.

As expected it dint go well with Weasel who attacked Radio for hitting his pal. The war of words went on well in the night before they were separated by other members of the crew and onlookers.

The pair later made up but clearly there is trouble in Paradise for Good Lyfe. In fact, on Tuesday Word Is got word that the Good Lyfe Crew were at the Club Silk Royale and Radio was not with them.

Friday, November 20, 2009

ACTOR NICHOLAS CAGE VISITS PIRATES AT SHIMO LA TEWA.

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Inmates danced for the movie star and shook his hand as he toured the Shimo La Tewa prison in the Kenyan coastal town of Mombasa. The prison has become a model for other jails in the country because of the reform work of its chief warden, Wanini Kireri.


Cage, a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime, told The Associated Press Television News on Tuesday that he wanted to meet with some of the suspected Somali pirates, hear their stories and understand what is fueling piracy off the Somali coast.

"Then I'm in a position where I can actually make some sense and talk about it when I go back to the States where I go talk to different U.N. councils and discuss the matter," Cage said.

Cage also gave out awards during his Tuesday visit to wardens in recognition of their outstanding work. He left Kenya Wednesday.

Somali pirates are currently holding around a dozen ships and more than 200 crew, and attacks have increased in recent weeks as seasonal rains subsided.

On Wednesday, pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.

An international flotilla of warships now patrols the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, but pirates continue to carry out attacks because of the millions of dollars that can be made from a successful hijacking.

After all that, Nicholas Cage headed for the Tamarind Dhow and had lunch (rice & beef stew). Before leaving the dhow, he had a chat with the Director Of The Tamarind Dhow - Mr Hassan Feisal Ali which followed him signing the visitors book.


From Left To Right
Hassan Feisal Ali, Fernandes, Prudence & Nicholas Cage




Heading To The Parking



Ushered In And Leaving The Tamarind Village.

OSCAR AWARD WINNER JENNIFER HUDSON SET TO PLAY WINNIE MANDELA IN FEATURE FILM!


Hollywood trade publication Variety today revealed that Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson will be playing ex-wife of Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela in a new movie set to begin filming in South Africa next year.


According to Variety, ‘Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Transkei and Robben Island, where the future president spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.

“Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!”

Andre Pieterse, Roodt and Paul L. Johnson wrote a script based on the Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob biography “Winnie Mandela:A Life.” Picture is being made with South African and Canadian money, with Pieterse producing with Michael Mosca of Canada’s Equinoxe Films.

While Nelson Mandela — who’ll be played by Morgan Freeman in the Clint Eastwood-directed “Invictus” — is a universally sympathetic figure for his struggle against apartheid, his former wife is a far more complicated figure. She has been depicted as the mother and wife who was a steadfast supporter of her activist husband and who was jailed herself for campaigning for his release and fighting against apartheid. Her image was subsequently tarnished by association with a bodyguard who murdered a 14-year old alleged informer, and she was later convicted of fraud.

The filmmakers will tell the whole story, good and bad.

“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honored to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”

Hudson, who is expected to sing the film’s theme song, won the Oscar for her screen debut in “Dreamgirls’ and followed with “The Secret Life of Bees” and “Sex and the City.”

Actually looking forward to this movie because Winnie Mandela’s story is a very compelling one.

Thursday, November 19, 2009

CHAMELEON AND BEBE TAKE EARLY LEAD IN THE POLLS!





Ugandan celebrities Chameleon and Bebe Cool have taken an early lead in the Zain 'I Believe Concert' artistes promotion and are on course to perform alongside R.Kelly.

As part of preparations for the I Believe Concert, telecommunication giant, Zain has requested fans to vote for which of their favourite artistes will perform on the 29th of January 2010 at Lugogo Cricket Oval.

The polls are run under the watchful eye of a reputable audit firm to ensure transparency and fairness. Chameleone is leading and right behind him is BEBE followed by the Goodlyfe stars Mowzey Radio and Weasel out of the group of 12 artistes.


The best five will have a once in a lifetime opportunity to perform alongside R.Kelly. The other artistes on the list include GNL, Iryn, Peter Miles, Aziz Azion, Grace Nakimera, Toniks, Cindy and the Obsessions.
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