The unusual event (because most law firms don’t host such entertainment gigs) was named ‘An evening out with Ara’— a unique blend of western savvy and Nigerian hospitality well delivered at the well appointed Regent Chinese restaurant, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Ara spoke both with her drums and lit up the stage. The female Nigerian musical export is now being packaged by Detail Solicitors, which says a lot for the firm of lawyers who dared to move away from straight-jacketed dinners, seminars and conferences by thinking and acting out of the box.

According to the firm’s top entertainment lawyer, Dolapo Kukoyi, “In our culture of promoting clients, we are set at Detail Solicitors to promote Ara who is a client of ours. Ara is an enigma and she will be releasing an album soon. We are quite proud of who she is, what she has achieved and what more she is set to achieve.”

Ayuli Jemide, Lead Partner, Detail Solicitors, opened with a short welcome remark introducing the 15 lawyers that constitute the Detail team. He urged everyone to “Enjoy!” And in compliance to his request, everyone had fun – with good Chinese cuisine, great roots music, plenty to drink and a load of surprises.

In Ara’s first performance of the evening, she came out as Ara the Entertainer (not just the performer she’s known to be). The thrill began with a treasure hunt as Ara in an abracadabra fashion asked all the guests to reach under their tables for dozens of ‘shekere’ (a local hand-held percussion instrument with beads around a calabash).

The guests delightfully launched their ‘shekeres’ as Ara challenged them to imitate the sounds she made on her talking drum. It was a rip-roaring time as everyone ‘shekere-d’ in unison.

As though that was not enough excitement for one night, Ara came on stage after dinner for a second performance and it was the crescendo. She played the Nigerian and American national anthems on her talking drum.

Her on-stage choreography wowed everyone and then she came off the stage and courted her appreciative audience, making dance partners of the more than willing guests.

Julius Agwu, Faze Xpose secrets in Lagos

All is now set as D’banj, Faze, Julius Agwu and Ego storm Lagos in the Xpose musical concert.
Scheduled to hold in XQZMOI, Lekki, the artistes have promised to let it all hang out when, in an active exchange with their audiences, each would reveal personal secrets that their fans want to know.

Talking about the show, the Koko master, D’banj said, “I like being honest with my fans and I think it would be fun to devote a part of the concert to interacting with them. And that’s what Xpose is all about— more fun and getting closer to the people.”

Faze is ready to ‘expose’ his best kept secrets as well. According to him, “Everybody wants to know the personal secrets of the popular entertainers. So, in between the songs, we are going to come on stage together and challenge each other to let it all hang out and Xpose who we really are. It’s going to be absolutely crazy.”

Faze, a former member of the Hip-hop group Plantashun Boyz, solo album Faze Alone sold more than a million copies before the release date. Like D’banj, he has won dozens of awards and nominations. “I’ve always said my music is about who I am. It is honest music, so while we are going to talk about things that would surprise a lot of people we are going to give them the time of their lives. What they are going to be surprised to find out is that Nigerian entertainers are not as irresponsible as some people think,” Faze said.

As to what he would ‘expose’ Faze said, “Come to the show and be the first to know.”

According to Ego, the former Lagbaja sidekick, “It’s gonna be wild. Everybody thinks I have a certain secret I’ve been hiding for some time now. At the Xpose concert they are going to find out the real truth,” she said with a wink.

Julius ‘De Genius’ Agwu – the comedian and showbiz impresario, who pioneered the music/comedy entertainment genre, would anchor the event.

The kids are back

When entertainment newsmen gathered last Saturday at the Planet One, Maryland, Lagos for the unveiling of this new music group called N-jection, nothing prepared us for what we saw: 3 kids aged between 13 and 8 were the focus.

Nazerene called Naz, Napthali aka Tali for short and Naomi, the 8-year-old diva in the group were presented as members of the new group N-jection.

The three siblings surnamed Eke are managed by their mother Mrs Njideka Ezenwa-Eke who spoke on the children’s love for music and how the group was formed.

According to her, the kids have shown amazing talents since birth and will usually run to the keyboard every morning after they awake.

Naz, the eldest in the group who also plays the keyboard has led the group to perform at the Regional Art Gallery on American Democracy project, MTN Homecoming 2007, United Nations International Children’s Day and Bank PHB staff and customers’ Easter party.

The kids who were only brought into the country about five years ago already have a mental picture of what they would like to do in future.

With an album being packaged already and due for release in the first quarter of next year, they gave guests a foretaste of what their debut album will contain by playing two tracks titled ‘Our Family’ and ‘The World We Want’ to which many gave approval.  

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