{"id":274125,"date":"2011-01-15T01:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T01:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=47727"},"modified":"2011-01-15T01:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T01:46:46","slug":"segun-arinze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/15\/segun-arinze\/","title":{"rendered":"Segun Arinze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_30804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30804\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-30804\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/05\/segun-arinze-upgrades-status\/segun-arinze\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30804\" title=\"segun-arinze\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/segun-arinze.jpg\" alt=\"Segun Arinze\" width=\"280\" height=\"391\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Segun Arinze<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe actor who is often identified for playing bad guy roles speaks several Nigerian languages fluently. Born in Onitsha, Anambra state, his early education was at Victory College of Commerce in Illorin and Taba Commercial College, Kaduna. Arinze received his dramatic training at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Segun\u2019s screen credits include \u201cThe Silent Night\u201d, \u201cChurch in Crisis\u201d, \u201cDarkest Night\u201d, \u201cBattle of Love\u201d. \u201cAtlanta\u201d and the popular TV soap operas Mega Fortune and Ripples. Segun also hosts the popular AIT talk show \u201cNo Holds Barred\u201d.<br \/>\nBackground<br \/>\nAm from Badagry, Lagos state. My mum is Igbo and my dad Yoruba, though he\u2019s late. The name came as a result of my then music label, premier records who felt Segun Aina sounded jujuish or should in I say fujiish, and they wanted curiosity and controversy to the name because they were creating a pop singer. Well the name stuck! SEGUN ARINZE! www.nigeriamovies.net<br \/>\nIt started some 20 years ago when I met a friend way back in Ilorin, Kwara State his name, Ayo Orowale. He introduced me to the theatre and we formed a playgroup called Palm Players. Ever since there has been no going back! I knew I loved acting and I was going to be an actor so when the opportunity came I went on to read drama at Unife, now Obafemi Awolowo university. I thank God for blessing me with so much talent sometimes am bawled over by it all. I mean I can sing, act, write copies and scripts, do voice over, produce and direct sometimes do PR work when I find the time. www.nigeriamovies.net<br \/>\nMovie Roles<br \/>\nPlaying villain doesn\u2019t make me one and I don\u2019t let it get to me. I consider myself a professional, doing his job, I see myself as a \u2018method actor\u2019 I can play ten bad boy roles in ten different ways. Most Nigerian directors and producers like stereotypes because they are lazy and don\u2019t want stress. They want the easy way out because they shoot for 7 days, no time to work on any greenhorn so they try to mould what is professionally known in theatre as \u2018stock character\u2019 in common parlance its called \u2018stereotype\u2019. I am not a typecast. They should be more daring and look for, and work on new talents. www.nigeriamovies.net<br \/>\nAll roles are challenging. Depends on how you as the actor approach the role. For me KG in Kingsley Ogoro`s THE RETURN was hectic and tedious, we shot for close to 5 years, things kept on changing and we had to adapt to these challenges, both human and unforeseen and we lost 4 souls in the course of the movie, but it paid off in the end we got 17 nominations, 11 awards, I won best actor at the 2004 Reel Awards, even though some people disagreed because they felt the character was a psycho and mean but hey! Who cares! Denzel won an Oscar for playing a bad cop in Training Day. People are used to seeing good and romantic boys win, acting is an art.<br \/>\nMusic Career<br \/>\nI had my first album in 1992 called DREAMS under premier music, before then I had done quite a number of jingles and soundtracks. I also co wrote and performed the theme song for the maiden edition of the Nigerian music awards in 1991\/92 as well as the fame music awards of the same year.<br \/>\nI needed to make an inroad into acting. Now am in the mood to sing again my new single is currently enjoying good airplay on radio and the reception has been tremendous. Tuface Idibia and Sunny Nneji featured on a track called \u201cPower to say no\u2019 while Mike Aremu plays soprano sax on the ballad \u201cLove me tonight\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actor who is often identified for playing bad guy roles speaks several Nigerian languages fluently. 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