Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Efya To Share Stage With Grammy Award Winner Macklemore & Nicki Minaj In South Africa On Sept. 26th - 28th

 Efya will be performing at the Tribe One Music Festival, taking place in South Africa from September 26th -28th , 2014,

We can also tell you that the Afro Neo-Soul songstress is joining American female hip hop head, Nicki Minaj, for the three-day event, which also has an impressive core of artistes lined up.

An already stellar line-up for The TribeOne Dinokeng Festival has been announced and now Nigeria’s Queen of Afropop, Tiwa Savage, Ghana’s award winning Neo-Soul Diva, Efya, Zambia’s Slap Dee, Kay Figo and Uncle Rex join the likes of D’Banj, Sarkodie, Khuli Chana, WizKid, The Parlotones, Redsan, Alikiba, Fally Ipupa, Keko, Xtatic and a plethora of other African stars alongside international stars Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Nicki Minaj, J Cole, Kid Ink and others on the 26th-28th September 2014 in the historic diamond town of Cullinan.

Tiwa Savage came to the interest of the Nigerian public in 2010 when she released her infectious smash hit ‘Kele Kele Love’. She has since released hits after hits including, Oyi Remix, Ife Wa Gbono, Eminado with millions of online views.

Tiwa, born and bred in Lagos, Nigeria, graduated from the University of Kent in the UK with a degree in business administration. Armed with her degree, Tiwa continued to pursue her first love. However when Tiwa got the call to sing backup for Mary J. Blige, she decided to forego accounting to focus on music full-time. As a backup singer, Tiwa Savage has worked and toured with internationally acclaimed artists such as George Michael, Mary J. Blige, Blu Cantrell, Kelly Clarkson and Emma Bunton, formerly from the spice girls to name a few.




A woman of many talents, this African megastar has been an avid songwriter since the age of 15. She is also signed her Publishing to Sony ATV as a songwriter. She co-wrote the track ‘Collard greens and Cornbread’ on Fantasia’s Grammy-nominated album ‘Back to me’, she also co-wrote Monica’s ‘Catch Me’ on her ‘New Life’ album and Chrisette Michele’s ‘Couple of Forevers’ just to name a few. She also has background vocal credits on Whitney Houston’s album ‘I look to you’.

Four years since her debut on the local music scene she has been nominated and won several prestigious awards, including MTV MAMA 2014 Best Female, BET Nominee 2014 nominee BEST African Act, MOBO Awards 2013, Headies – HipHop World Awards (Best Female Vocalist, Best R & B single), Channel O Music Awards (Female Video of the year), Most Gifted R&B music video of the Year and many others.

Efya, is a Ghanaian Neo soul vocalist, songwriter, and performer from Kumasi, Ghana. She is the daughter of Nana Adwoa Awindor, a filmmaker and celebrity host of the late television show Greetings From Abroad. Efya got her first exposure to fame when she participated in the maiden edition of the Stars of the Future talent show. She won the “Best Female Vocal Performance” category at the Ghana Music Awards in four successions, beginning in 2009. Moreover, she was applauded for her performance at the 2013 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards. On November 11, 2013, Efya released T.I.N.T., a digital mixtape which consist of songs that were released between 2011 to 2013. The mixtape was supported by the singles “Getaway” and “Best In Me”. She is currently working on her debut studio album Love Genesis, “Forgetting Me”, the album’s lead single, was released on January 11, 2014.

TribeOne Dinokeng music festival is a three-day extravaganza that will see artists from all over the world perform in Cullinan, a beautifully preserved town oozing with history. The Cullinan diamond was found here and was the largest non carbonado and largest gem-quality diamond ever found, at 3106.75 carat (621.35 g, 1.37 lb) rough weight. It was found on 26 January 1905, in the Premier No. 2 mine, near Pretoria, now named Tshwane, also the capital of South Africa. The largest polished gem from the stone is named Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa as it is more commonly known and at 530.4 carats (106.08 g) is the largest polished white diamond in the world.

This festival will be the first of its kind for Africa and will provide employment for hundreds of local residents within the town and surrounding townships. Subscribe to the official TribeOne sites below and keep up to date with the over 300 artists to be announced and more to follow.

TribeOne Dinokeng music festival is proud to announce ZNBC (Zambia National Broadcasting Cooperation) as its official media partner of TribeOne in Zambia. This television station covers the whole of Zambia, notably Lusaka, Livingston and the entire Copperbelt, reaching in excess of 4-million viewers.

Happening in Cullinan, Tshwane, South Africa, Efya will perform alongside Minaj on the ‘Diamond Fields’ stage, which is one of three main stages being used for the festival.

Set to be a huge break for the Ghanaian, the South African event will hold on the back of an impressive first and second quarter chain of cross-boarder performances, the more recent being an industry event in Nigeria.

This is Minaj’s first African date, and brings to reality a long-held dream of coming to the motherland.

The organizers are more than excited she is coming.

“To say we are thrilled to have such an amazing talent and global megastar such as Minaj take centre stage at TribeOne Dinokeng this year in the amazing City of Tshwane is a complete understatement. Fans have so much in store for them with Nicki’s first ever performance on the shores of the African,” says Jandre Louw, Founder and CEO of TribeOne Festivals.

Tribe One Music Festival is powered by ROCKSTAR4000 and Sony Music Entertainment. The City of Tshwane is the proud official Host City of the TribeOne Dinokeng festival.

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