By Kehinde Ajose

Last week we brought you Omotola, Genevieve, Juliet Ibrahim, Jennifer Eliogu, and Ronke Ojo, looking at their fortunes since adding music to their portfolios, outside their familiar terrain of acting. This week, we continue with other movie stars who have either done music or doing music and see how they have fared in comparison to their comfort zone of acting.

Stella Damasus hitting the right notes to no effect?

Stella Damasus

Since her romance with Doris Simeon’s former husband, Daniel Ademinokan, there have been more negative media perception of his Nollywood screen diva than at any other time of her career. She made her name as an actress but later detoured into music. Though to some, it looked like an experiment but the result for Stella is the realisation that she has got some groove.

“Unlike many of her counterparts, who don’t understand what it means to be a vocalist,Stella has a soulful voice that can deliver the goods” observes a critic. In Love me quick, she flaunts her vocal dexterity, hitting the right notes, displaying the needed breath control, blending effortlessly with the piano. Every one is patiently anticipating the direction her music cruise will take but it seems the diva isn’t taking the chance with both hands.

Tonto Dikeh forging ahead against all odds

Tonto-Dikeh

When she took the bold step of stretching her star power to pursue a career in music, with the release of the songs Its Ova and Hi ,her stubborn insistence on promoting those singles gave her lots of airplays and downloads. Considering her accomplishment as an actress, many perceived her music effort as something a bit over her head.

Some say Tonto Dike is qualified to play the role of a musician in a movie than in real life. Many have already lamented the disaster of giving up her promising acting career for a miserable music career. But since switching to music,Tonto has allowed nothing to stand in her way. songs like Hi, Ekebe ,Sheba featuring Solid star and Sugar rush are proof of her doggedness. Just last year, D’Banj signed her to his DB records.

Anita Joseph torn between time and passion

Anita Joseph

When it comes to music,the curvaceous Anita Joseph goes by the name Nita J. She found another opportunity to flaunt her curves when she released the video for her dancehall song Time no dey in 2009 which generated lots of reviews.

Her desire to make it in music saw her collaborating with Flavour in a song titled Nyem Something. With intense training the sexy diva might just be on her way to being the next Omawunmi but allocating time for music with hard demand of acting time has been her toughest nut to crack

Dayo Amusa onto a big thing?

The movie Unforgivable gave her rave reviews. Paydab, her self-owned school, shows her knack for entrepreneurship and Blow my mind proves that the award-winning actress can sing too. Dayo Amusa isn’t ready to relent any time soon. She goes by the stage name,Adufe when music is concerned.

Dayo-Amusa

The enterprising actress recorded her first single in 2014 for her movie Unforgivable.This year, she unveiled another song titled Blow my mind. The highlife themed song shows her versatility as a vocalist.

Though Dayo’s music may not be making waves at the moment,she is capable of making it big if she gets better at it.

Music, a water too hot for Patience Ozokwor

Patience-Ozokwor

Once upon a time,Patience Ozokwor delved into music with the stage name Mama G.

The veteran actress expressed her musical talent, shot some music videos and was bent on conquering the music world.

Songs like Make we jolly, National moi moi, Adaeze and Iyo Ngwo Ngwo rocked the airwaves. She was confident she had found her forte in music. Suddenly, she lost that drive and nothing was heard about her music ever since

Susan Ekwe on the right course?

Known as Harmony in the music industry,Susan Ekwe is quick to tell anyone that she is born to be an entertainer.

The budding actress who broke into the movie industry with the movie Desire also doubles as a singer.

Susan-Ekwe

Though her music venture is yet to give her major breakthroughs, the delectable diva isn’t discouraged as she keeps releasing music for her fans to feed on.

Harmony who is signed on to HF music recently released Chocolate, an Afropop tune in which she featured Zeez.

She sounded melodious as a result of the auto tune that was used in the song. Critics have said she sounds like Yemi Alade and might just be on her way to oust the Johnny crooner if she puts more attention on her fledgling music career.

She also recently released another singer ‘Gat your back’ featuring Ghanaian Stoneboy and Cynthia Morgan