Road Map To The Headies 2014

The Headies since debuting in 2006 has become one of the most anticipated events year in year out. Today, the Awards ceremony is the biggest award ceremony in  Nigeria. Within the space of Eight years it has cemented itself as the authentic awards’ brand and has continued to deliver an annual awards ceremony that has never failed to dazzle, inspire, excite and entertain. In Nigeria’s entertainment calendar, the date for the Hip Hop World Awards is one of the most anticipated, if not the most important.

‘The Headies’ will make a return to the prestigious Eko Hotels and Suite, Victoria Island. The Headies is now slated to hold on Sunday December 14, 2014 at the Eko Convention Centre, according to the update provided by its organizers.

It’s another opportunity to give Nigerians a spectacular show, and the team is working round the clock to do what they are best known for. There are twenty-one categories this year, with Phyno and KCEE leading the nominees’ list with five nominations each. Vying for the highly coveted Next Rated prize are Patoranking, Runtown, Orezi, Skales and Yemi Alade. This is undoubtedly the toughest awards yet.

This year’s awards promises to be the best pre-Christmas gift yet. The artistes can’t wait,  nominees are excited; the entire industry is agog and  excited.

THE HEADIES 2014 NOMINEES LIST

 1.        BEST RECORDING OF THE YEAR

1. IYAWO MI- TIMI DAKOLO
2. LET SOMEBODY LOVE YOU- 2FACE IDIBIA
3. ALWAYS ON MY MIND – NOSA
4. ORDINARY PEOPLE – COHBAMS ASUQUO

2.        PRODUCER OF THE YEAR

1. DON JAZZY – DOROBUCCI
2. PHEELZ – ELEDA MI O
3. T SPIZE – AYE
4. LEGENDURY BEATZ – CARO
5. SHIZZY – SKELEWU
6. DEL B – PULL OVER

3.        BEST MUSIC VIDEO

1. ADA ADA BY FLAVOUR – CLARENCE PETERS
2. TOH BAD BY NIYOLA – KEMI ADETIBA
3. JUST LIKE THAT BY RAYCE – AJE
4. OYA NOW BY JOE EL FT. ORITSE FEMI – UNLIMITED LA
5. PERSONALLY BY P-SQUARE – JUDE “ENGEES” OKOYE & CLARENCE PETERS

4.        BEST R&B/POP ALBUM

1. THE JOURNEY – SEAN TIZZLE
2. TAKEOVER – KCEE
3. ONCE UPON A TIME – TIWA SAVAGE
4. ME, MY MOUTH & EYE – SOUND SULTAN
5. L.I.F.E – BURNA BOY

5.        BEST R&B SINGLE

1. LET SOMEBODY LOVE YOU- 2FACE IDIBIA
2. IYAWO MI- TIMI DAKOLO
3. PLAN B – WANDE COAL
4. DON GORDON – BURNA BOY

6.        BEST POP SINGLE

1. DOROBUCCI – MAVIN CREW
2. AYE – DAVIDO
3. JOHNNY – YEMI ALADE
4. PULL OVER – KCEE
5. DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSE FEMI
6. CARO – STAR BOY FEATURING WIZKID AND L.A.X
7. SURULERE – DR. SID

 7.        BEST REGGAE/DANCEHALL SINGLE

1. GIRLIE O REMIX – PATORANKING
2. LEAD ME ON – CYNTHIA MORGAN
3. STINKING SH#T – CHOPSTIX FEATURING ICE PRINCE, YUNG L AND ENDIA.
4. BAD GIRL – JESSE JAGZ FT. WIZKID
5. MURDA   – SEYI SHAY FT. PATORANKING & SHAYDEE

8.        BEST RAP ALBUM

1. NO GUTS NO GLORY – PHYNO
2. ALAGA IBILE- REMINISCE
3. BADDEST GUY EVER LIVETH – OLAMIDE
4. THY NATION COME – JESSE JAGZ

9.        BEST COLLABO

1. OYA NOW – JOE EL FT. ORITSE FEMI
2. EMERGENCY – WIZZY PRO FEATURING SKALES, PATORANKING AND RUNTOWN
3. SURULERE – DR. SID & DON JAZZY
4. PASS YOU BY – BLACK MAGIC FT. ORITSE FEMI
5. GIRLIE O REMIX – PATORANKING
6. DOROBUCCI – MAVINS

10.     BEST RAP SINGLE

1. PARCEL- PHYNO
2. DOPE MONEY – OLAMIDE FT. PHYNO
3. SHOTZ ON SHOTS – ICE PRINCE FT. SARKODIE
4. RAP IT UP – POSLY TD
5. DEAF – EVA ALORDIAH
6. WTF – ILL BLISS

11.     BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (MALE)

1. IYAWO MI – TIMI DAKOLO
2. DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSE FEMI
3. WHY YOU LOVE ME – NOSA
4. ORDINARY PEOPLE – COBHAMS

12.     BEST VOCAL PERFORMANCE (FEMALE)

1. LOVE TO LOVE YOU – NIYOLA FT. BANKYW
2. WANTED – TIWA SAVAGE
3. WINDOW – MONICA OGAH
4. GOOD MAN – RUBY

13.     NEXT RATED

1. PATORANKING
2. RUNTOWN
3. OREZI
4. SKALES
5. YEMI ALADE

14.     HIP HOP WORLD REVELATION

1. TIWA SAVAGE – ONCE UPON A TIME
2. SEAN TIZZLE – THE JOURNEY
3. BURNA BOY – L.I.F.E
4. KCEE – TAKE OVER

15.     LYRICIST ON THE ROLL

1. SHOTS ON SHOTS – ICE PRINCE
2. RAP IT UP – POSLY TD
3. GOD ON THE MIC – JESSE JAGZ
4. KPANSH – YUNG 6IX

16.     BEST STREET-HOP ARTISTE

1. DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSE FEMI
2. SHOKI – LIL’ KESH
3. DOROBUCCI – MAVIN
4. ALOBAM – PHYNO

17.     BEST ‘ALTERNATIVE’ SONG

1. BOLAJI – BOJ
2. BODY- BLACK MAGIC FEATURING BANKY W
3. GOOD MAN – RUBY
4. WHY YOU LOVE YOU – NOSA

 18.     ALBUM OF THE YEAR

1. THE JOURNEY – SEAN TIZZLE
2. L.I.F.E – BURNA BOY
3. BADDEST GUY EVER LIVETH – OAMIDE
4. NO GUTS NO GLORY – PHYNO

19.     ARTISTE OF THE YEAR

1. DAVIDO
2. WIZKID
3. KCEE
4. TIWA SAVAGE
5. OLAMIDE
6. PHYNO
7. FLAVOUR

20.     SONG OF THE YEAR

1. AYE – DAVIDO
2. PULL OVER – KCEE
3. DOUBLE WAHALA – ORITSEFEMI
4. SURULERE – DR. SID
5. DOROBUCCI – MAVINS
6. JOHNNY – YEMI ALADE

21.     BEST AFRICAN ARTISTE

1. MAFIKIZOLO
2. SARKODIE
3. DIAMONDZ
4. R2BEES

 22.     HALL OF FAME

Special recognition for excellence and outstanding impact to the entertainment industry.

SIR (DR.) VICTOR UWAIFO

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Premiere: “Text Me Merry Christmas” With Kristen Bell And Straight No Chaser

See the animated video for the modern holiday song we’ve been waiting for.

This vintage-feeling holiday video is a combined effort from Atlantic Records, Kristen Bell, Straight No Chaser, JASH, and songwriters Adam Schlesinger and David Javerbaum. The modern Christmas tune was later animated by Cuppa Coffee Studios. It’s another sign-o-the-times, don’t you think?

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Atlantic Records

Because no music video would be complete without a selfie with Santa.

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Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar saxophonist Bobby Keys dead at 70

Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar saxophonist Bobby Keys dead at 70

BOBBY Keys, a saxophonist and lifelong rock ‘n roller who played on recordings by Buddy Holly and John Lennon and performed one of the highest blowout solos on the Rolling Stones’ Brown Sugar, has died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 70 years old.

Michael Webb, who played keyboard with Keys, said Keys died yesterday after a lengthy illness. Keys had been out on tour with the Stones earlier this year before his health prevented him from performing.

“The Rolling Stones are devastated by the loss of their very dear friend and legendary saxophone player, Bobby Keys,” the band said in a statement. “Bobby made a unique musical contribution to the band since the 1960s. He will be greatly missed.”

Known for his heavy jowls and forceful style, the Lubbock, Texas native was born on the same day as Keith Richards — December18, 1943 — and the Stones’ guitarist would often cite Keys as a soulmate and favourite musician. Besides Brown Sugar, Keys also played memorable solos on such Stones favourites as the 7-minute jam Can’t You Hear Me Knocking and the country-styled Sweet Virginia. Other career highlights included John Lennon’s chart-topping Whatever Gets You Through the Night and albums by Richards, George Harrison, Barbra Streisand and Eric Clapton.

Keys’ career dated back to the 1950s, when as a teenager he played with fellow Lubbock native Holly and The Crickets. He met the Stones in the mid-’60s while they were on the same bill in San Antonio, Texas. He first recorded with the Stones in the late 1960s, and has toured and recorded with them off and on over the following decades.

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‘Birdman’ Takes Top Award At Gotham Awards

The annual Gotham’s gala, held Monday night in downtown New York, was the first glitzy gathering in Hollywood’s three-month-long awards season. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Birdman (Or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” emerged as the night’s top winner.

Uma Thurman hosted the non-televised event to honor independent film with awards picked by panels of critics and film writers.

Julianne Moore took best actress for her performance as a middle-aged woman with early onset Alzheimer’s in “Still Alice.”

The wrestling drama “Foxcatcher” was honored for its ensemble cast, as well as a career tribute for its director, Bennett Miller.

Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age tale “Boyhood” won the Gotham’s audience award.

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Bill Cosby resigns from Temple University’s board of trustees

Bill Cosby has resigned from Temple University’s board of trustees, the latest evidence of how sexual assault allegations are eviscerating his career and standing as one of the nation’s most beloved entertainers.

Cosby and the Philadelphia-based university confirmed the resignation Monday afternoon with brief statements.
“I have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees,” Cosby said.

A statement from the board simply acknowledged: “The Board of Trustees accepts Dr. Cosby’s resignation from the board and thanks him for his service to the university.”

A Philadelphia native, Cosby had a deep personal connection to the school, having attended classes there in the early 1960s before his comedy career took off. He had been a board member for more than 30 years and has been a major financial supporter of the school, with a scholarship program named for Cosby and his wife, Camille Cosby.

But the school had been under pressure from alumni and others to cut its ties to Cosby in the wake of the accusations by more than a dozen women of having been drugged and assaulted after encounters with him. The allegations against the comedian have flared at the same time many colleges and universities are under scrutiny for their handling of sexual assault charges on campus.

Word of Cosby’s resignation from Temple comes as the comedian has been forced to offer refunds to ticket holders for some of his upcoming live performances. He has reportedly agreed to refund hundreds of tickets sold to two shows set for Tarrytown, N.Y., on Dec. 6, according to a report Monday in the White Plains Daily Voice.

Cosby’s schedule of live performances during the past few weeks have been greatly disrupted, with some canceled outright.

Last month he saw the decades-old charges exact a huge toll as NBC dropped a sitcom it was developing for him to star, Netflix yanked a comedy special that was to have premiered Nov. 27 and cabler TV Land tabled reruns of his 1980s family comedy “The Cosby Show.”

Cosby’s lawyers have denied the allegations and decried the “vilification” of his legacy through media coverage as women have come forward.

After Dec. 6, Cosby has no live appearances scheduled until Jan. 7, when he is set to appear at the Centre in the Square theater in Kitchener, Ontario.

The outcry among ticket holders in Tarrytown was so great last week that Cosby through his management agreed to allow the refunds.

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Star of the stage taking her final bow after four decades

Doreen Brownstone, 92, is retiring from acting after four decades in the theatre.

The Prairie Theatre Exchange is saying goodbye to one of Manitoba’s most cherished actresses.

Performing is something Doreen Brownstone has been doing for more than half a century.

Brownstone, who plays “Aunt Grace” in the play Vigil, moved to Canada in 1946 from England, where she first caught the acting bug.

“My lecturer mistress would do a Shakespeare per term, so she would say, ‘Who wants to read?’ I say, ‘I do, I do.’ I loved it,” she said.

That passion led her to star in a number of television shows and movies across the country.

At 92 years old, she’s the oldest working theatre actress in Canada.

“You just revel in it,” said Brownstone. “It’s there, things are going well, there’s nothing like it.”

Four decades after her first on-screen appearance, Brownstoneis now ready to say goodbye to the stage.

“She’s gotten better with age, and we really enjoyed her performance,” said audience member Marvin Kohn. “She’s an icon in Winnipeg and Manitoba theatre, and she’ll be missed.”

“(She’s) a darling of the theatre, I would say,” said director Carman Johnston.“Everybody who knows Doreen, loves Doreen.”

As she walks away on her own terms, Brownstone says it’s emotional, but you could never tell.

“Get off the stage, Brownstone. Somebody else is coming in,” she said.

And when they do, they’ll have big shoes to fill.

Watch The latest production from Prairie Theatre Exchange, Vigil, is the story of a self-centered bank employee who receives a letter from his sick aunt. Jenna sat down with the actors, Doreen Brownstone and Michael Spencer-Davis.

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Margarine artist Vipula Athukorale’s Culinary World Cup win

Vipula Athukorale won the gold medal for his World War One battlefield scene

A chef who carves sculptures from margarine has won an international competition for a second time.

Vipula Athukorale, 51, who lives in Leicester, achieved gold during the Culinary World Cup, held in Luxembourg, the same event he won in 2010.

He said his winning entry, a World War One battlefield scene, took him three weeks and is made from 20kg (44lb) of pastry margarine.

He said he had wanted to mark the 100th anniversary of the conflict’s outbreak.

Mr Athukorale’s 2010 win was based on a Victorian street scene by artist Ronald Embleton, which he showed to the public at Belgrave Hall Museum, in 2011.

Other margarine sculptures he has completed include a foot-long Rolls Royce car complete with four passengers travelling to a wedding.

The artist said he has to keep his breathing steady while carving finer details and sometimes works long into the night.

As well as margarine, which carves better than butter, Mr Athukorale, who is originally from Sri Lanka, has made art from watermelon and lumps of polystyrene.

He trained as a hotel manager in Sri Lanka but developed his food art in 1984 while working as a kitchen artist, carving table centre-pieces for five star hotels.

After working at hotels in Iraq, Bahrain and Athens he moved to Leicester in 2004.

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Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen Receive 2014 Fred Ebb Award Tonight

Songwriting team Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen are the recipients of the 2014 Fred Ebb Award for musical theater writing. They will be presented with the award at a private ceremony held tonight, December 1, at the American Airlines Theatre.

For their win, the TUCK EVERLASTING writers will take part in a showcase with the Fred Ebb Foundation, and have received $50,000 in cash.

The awards are co-presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, with Chita Rivera as presenter.

Chris Miller (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics) have written The Burnt Part Boys (2010 Lucille Lortel Nomination, Best Musical) and Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award Nomination, Outstanding Revue), both of which have cast albums on Yellow Sound Label available at iTunes and Amazon.

Their current projects include an adaptation of the popular novel Tuck Everlasting (Direction by Casey Nicholaw, Book by Claudia Shear), and commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/Theatreworks Silicon Valley.

They have also written two circuses for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, contributed to the revue Stars of David, and penned an adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s picture book, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Boston Globe Top Ten Pick of 2008). Television work includes songs for Sesame Street (2012 Daytime Emmy Award) and The Electric Company. They began their collaboration at NYU where they received their MFA’s in musical theatre writing.

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Fans, Friends and Family Remember Paul Walker on 1st Anniversary of His Death

Paul Walker was an American actor who came to fame in movies such as Varsity Blues and became well-known for his starring role in The Fast and the Furious franchise.

Born in California in 1973, Paul Walker made his big-screen debut in the 1986 horror spoof Monster in Your Closet. After appearing in several television shows in the 1990s, including Charles in Charge, Who’s the Boss? and The Young and the Restless, Walker gained attention with a role in the 1999 film Varsity Blues, and his TV days were officially behind him. After working in teen movies such as She’s All That and The Skulls, Walker got his breakthrough role in 2001.

In 2001, Walker’s career hit overdrive when he landed a leading role alongside up-and-comer Vin Diesel in The Fast and the Furious. A film that paid homage to road films of the 1970s.

Two years later, the franchise was back with its first sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, and Walker was again along for the ride. The film’s gross was even larger than the first, and a bona fide hit series was under way. Walker then appeared in a few more action-oriented movies, including Timeline (2003), Into the Blue (2005) and Running Scared (2006), while also signing on to appear in the ensemble drama Noel (2004) and the children’s adventure movie Eight Below (2006).

Walker also showed his range as an actor in the 2006 war drama Flags of Our Fathers, directed by Clint Eastwood. He continued to take on more action movie roles in The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Takers (2010) and Fast Five (2011)—the third installment of the Fast and Furious franchise. In 2012, Walker signed on to film Fast & Furious 6 (2013), keeping the series’ momentum going.The Fast and the Furious franchise established Walker as an action-film mainstay, and he went on to appear in several films in the genre, including Takers, Hours and Vehicle 19.

While not filming, Walker was active in Reach Out Worldwide, a nonprofit organization he formed in 2010 to bring aid to regions devastated by natural disasters.

Walker died in a car accident on November 30, 2013 at the age of 40. Walker was in Santa Clarita, California to attend a charity event for Reach Out Worldwide to benefit victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. He was reportedly in the passenger seat of a Porsche when his friend who was driving lost control, crashing the vehicle into a tree. The car was engulfed in flames and both individuals were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident.

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Frank Ocean’s First Solo Song in Almost Two Years

 In light of The year coming to the end, Odd Future singer Frank Ocean releases a short new track entitled “Memrise”

Ocean.

Since the release of Channel Orange, his lauded debut album, Frank Ocean has kept a relatively low profile. He’s had one or two home-run collaborations—“Superpower,” the doo-wop tune he wrote for Beyoncé’s self-titled album, is a perfect ballad and perhaps Beyoncé’s best song—but for the most part he’s shirked public appearances to work on new material. Now we have a small taste of that work: Ocean’s released “Memrise,” a lo-fi effort that’s also his first solo song in almost two years.

What we hear probably isn’t a final cut—the track has a slight, unfinished feel, with ambient production cloaking Ocean’s croon. But it’s exciting, innovative stuff, and Ocean employs a catchy stop-start delivery that’s as much syncopation as singing. Expectations should be very high for his sophomore album.

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