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PRIDE OF AFRICA presents: P-Square
June 30, 2010
GET SQUARED…with the Original “P”, PSquare on their North American invasion
Toronto, ON- June 25th, 2010 – Nigerian heart-throbs’ and multi-talented award winning music duo-group, P-Square can easily be been labeled as multi-platinum recording artists’, proven to be one of the most promising R&B / Hip-Hop music artists/group out of the Nigerian music scene recently. The identical twins Peter and Paul club banger lyrics, upbeat love songs, and movement-inducing sounds are established on their worldwide acclaimed fourth debut hip-hop album titled, Danger, featuring collaborations with TuFace Idibia, J Martins and Frenzy.
Reported on CNN, Danger received 3 million albums sales during the first 30 days of hitting the local market ing Nigeria [Source, Youtube: CNN Report on Nigeria's Music Industry P Square …”Nigeria’s artist like P-Square, are selling out arenas across Africa. Nigeria’s hip hop industry is booming. On P-Square …examining analyst says, into a multi-million dollar business”. Cited and reported by Lagos-based CNN reporter, Christian Purefoy].
Thus far, P-Square’s junior studio best-selling album, Game Over, sold 8 million copies worldwide.
Peter and Paul Okoye began their music career as while attending St. Murumba College, a small Catholic school located in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria. Joining their school’s music and drama club; became well-known for their singing, dancing, and miming songs by the likes of MC Hammer, Bobby Brown and King of Pop Icon, Michael Jackson. “Our prolific dance routines snagged us a household name in the city of Jos, leading us to the birth of P-Square and worldwide fame”
“Every artist has a starting point—to begin with, as twin brothers we were very popular. In addition, we crafted and formulated our musical talents ranging from keyboard, rhythm guitars, drums, and bass, which became a superior ingredient to our future. Originally we formed a cappella quartet group called “MMMPP” (later changed name to “MMPP” due to one of the members. We remember honoring our greatest American idol, Michael Jackson, and ignited a group called SmoothCriminals.”
Peter and Paul attended the University of Abuja in Nigeria to study Business Administration; and under mutual terms all other members separated. Nonetheless knowingly the brothers, as “two equals one”, made them into the critically acclaimed duo-group named, P-Square.
In April 2010, while in concert at the Troxy in London, the super-star group, P-Square won honored as Artiste of the Year at the KORA All Africa Music Awards held in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso, receiving a sum of $1million dollars as the Award Recipients. In an official statement, the President of Burkina-Faso, Blaise Compaore dubbed P-Square, as the “next African export” as far as music is concerned. The group is managed by their elder brother, Jude “Engees” Okoye, also a video director, won Best Video for one of P-Square’s most famous videos titled, “Do Me” from their junior (third) album, Game Over, along with a cash sum of twenty-thousand dollars.
P-Square has shared the stage with international artists’, such as Akon, Sean Paul, Ginuwine, and Busola Keshiro, just to name a few. It’s no surprise; P-Square was recently nominated at the BET AWARDS 2010 for Best International Act. P-Square has won respectfully Best Group for the 2009 and 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards.
To date, P-Square’s music career has won them many accolades of awards as Best R & B Album, Best Music Video, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year, respectfully from Hip Hop World Awards; Best Hip-Hop group--City Mag 9th Awards Show; Album of the Year and Music Video of the Year--Nigerian Music Awards (NMA); Best Music Video of the Year and Best Collabo of the Year--Nigerian Entertainment Awards (NEA) [U.S.A] ; Best Duo or Group and Video of the Year--Channel O Music Video Awards; and Best Group-- Amen Award.
Additionally, the duo-group has received two MOBO Awards nominations; and a leading six MTV Africa Music Awards nominations.
CONTACT :
Official Websites: http://www.mypsquare.com and http://www.myspace.com/psquareofficialmyspace
Media Companies: Pace Nations; For more information about this event, please contact Ammar Kamara “Pride Of Africa” 416.333.8567 and/or send email to
mypsqaurecanada@gmail.com
About Pride of Africa: Pride of Africa Cultural Entertainment Group also operating as PACE Nations is Canada’s emerging connection to the African & Caribbean regions. With headquarters in Toronto, and offices in Winnipeg, Edmonton-Canada and Sierra Leone, our aim is targeted towards bringing out the best of the African-Caribbean regions in such a way that Challenges the Western nations. At Pace Nations, we believe that the very power and potential Africa & the Caribbean possesses is still hidden, and understand the importance of unleashing that power. Our motto “Bringing The Talented To Main Stage” speaks for us, our goals are very present in what we do-making sure the gap is bridged between Africa, the Caribbean and the Western World. We reach out to the citizens of our great continents and the Diaspora by providing products and services that will enhance the name of Africa and Caribbean. Our plans are numerous, our objectives are many, our vision is plain and it has one focus: “showing the world the beauty of our cultures”.
*Powerland Computers is the official sponsor of Canadian Invasion. For more information on Powerland Computer, please visit http://www.powerlandscomputer.com/
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