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I was Trained As A Fashion-Designer Before Delving Into Music – Portable
Popular street-hop musician, Habeeb Okikiola, famously known as Portable, has talked about the fact that he was a professional fashion designer before going into music.
The 30-year-old artiste talked about his love for fashion designing/tailoring in the debut episode of the ‘Brooke Bailey Danfo Series’.
Bailey, the Belgian DJ, flew into Nigeria to interview Portable, and was taken on a tour around Sango Ota, Ogun state, the hometown of Portable.
One of the places Portable took Bailey to was his ‘fashion designing studio’ – and Portable told her that he learnt fashion-designing/tailoring before venturing into music.
Portable said despite his popularity as a musician, he is still proud to be a fashion designer and feels good to ‘combines’ the profession with his music career.
In his words: “I was trained as a fashion designer. I am still a fashion designer, I am still doing it. That is what I learnt, that was my profession before I ventured into music.”
“Now I combine the both but I am taking the fashion side of things slow and steady. I love fashion designing, even entertainment is connected to fashion in some ways. So when you are doing music, you have to do fashion.”
Portable attained stardom in December 2021 with the release of ‘Zazoo Zeh’, his hit single featuring Olamide and Poco Lee.
He has also released hit tracks including ‘All Eyes On Me’, ‘Clear, Azaman’, ‘Neighbour’, and ‘Ogo Forever’.
In a recent post on TikTok, Portable talked about how he used to perform at shows as low as two hundred naira (N200) before Olamide escalated his career.
Portable expressed gratitude to Olamide, acknowledging him for positively impacting his life. Portable was recently featured by a UK rapper, Skepta, on a song titled ‘Tony Montana’.
The song ‘Tony Montana’ has manifested great turning-points in the careers of the artistes, and it has earned Portable his first ‘number-one’ song on the Spotify and Apple Music charts for Nigeria – also UK Chart debut.
‘Skepta’ and ‘Jae 5’ also earned their first number-one spot on the Spotify Top Songs Daily chart for Nigeria with the hit song, ‘Tony Montana’.
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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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