REVEALED!!! International Celebs With Nigerian Descents
We are all children of Mother Nature buh the truth is we have to secure our possessions because black is different from white, though they are both colours. That's why Mukaila is different from Micheal, Rihanatu is not Rihanna and Wale is not Wale (an English country) For this reason, Here is an attempt to chaff the wheat from the husk and reveal international celebrities who have their roots sown here in Naija! Here are the Top 5!
Helen Folasade Adu
Helen Folasade Adu, OBE (16
January 1959), better known as Sade Adu, is a Nigerian-born British
singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved
success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and
Grammy Award-winning English group Sade. In 2002, she received an OBE
from Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace for services to music, and she
dedicated her award to "all black women in England". In 2012, Sade was
listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women In Music. Sade has a
contralto vocal range.
Tunde Baiyewu
Tunde Baiyewu (born Babatunde
Emanuel Baiyewu, 25 November 1968) is a British singer of Nigerian
descent and is a member of the easy listening duo, Lighthouse Family. In
2004 he embarked on a solo career, releasing the album, ‘Tunde’ and
released his second album in 2013: ‘Diamond in a Rock’.
He is a step-son to the former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Jacob Taio Cruz
Jacob Taio Cruz (born 23 April
1985), known professionally as Taio Cruz, is a British
singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur.
In 2008, he released his debut album ‘Departure’, which he wrote,
arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the United
Kingdom and earned him a MOBO Award nomination.
Cruz was born in London, to a Nigerian father and a Brazilian mother. He
attended Bilton Grange, a private prep school in Rugby, Warwickshire.
One of his single, "Dynamite," topped the charts in a half-dozen
different countries.
Tinie Tempah
Tinie Tempah (Patrick
Chukwuemeka Okogwu, born 7 November 1988) is an English rapper. He
released his first mixtape in 2005; his first album, Disc-Overy, debuted
at number one in the UK in October 2010 and was preceded by two British
number-one singles. In February 2011, he won a Brit Award for Best
British Breakthrough Act.
Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu was born in London, England, on 7 November 1988, and has origins in Ibusa, Delta State, Nigeria.
Lemar Obika
Lemar Obika (born 4 April 1978),
professionally known simply as Lemar, is an English R&B
singer–songwriter and record producer. He was born in Tottenham, North
London, England to Nigerian parents of Enugu State, South Eastern
Nigeria.
Lemar has had a run of chart success in the United Kingdom, Europe and
Australia. He rose to fame after finishing in third place on the first
series of British talent show Fame Academy.
Since then, Lemar has had seven top ten UK singles and sold over two
million albums. He is seen as one of the most successful artists to come
out of a reality TV show. Lemar has also won two Brit Awards and three
MOBO Awards to date and released his fifth studio album in 2012.
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