{"id":359996,"date":"2011-04-02T03:05:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T03:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/02\/big-ma-romances-serenity\/"},"modified":"2011-04-02T03:05:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T03:05:54","slug":"big-ma-romances-serenity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/02\/big-ma-romances-serenity\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ma romances Serenity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"64.617154811715\">\n<p>By Opeoluwani Akintayo<br \/>Following her debut into the Nigerian music industry some years back, the \u2018larger than life\u2019 singer, Big Ma, has upgraded, forming a live band of her own. And in the same vein preparing for the release of her next video.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145049\" title=\"Big Ma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2c0f09f4Big-Ma.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"305\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big Ma<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to her, the band called Serenity is made up of her as the lead vocalist and eight others.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusively speaking with Showtime through a telephone chat about what she\u2019s presently up to, she said \u2018right now, I\u2019m the lead vocalist of a live band called Serenity. They go with me to anywhere I need to perform and we\u2019ve been having a nice time rehearsing and at outings. We\u2019re nine in number and our first outing was during Encomium\u2019s white and Black cocktail recently held in Lagos.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She also revealed that she\u2019s working on her new video titled Lost. According to her, the video is about someone who lacks companionship and is lonely.<\/p>\n<p>And when asked whether the song stemmed from a personal experience, she said, \u2018Yes. It came from experience which happened to me sometime ago.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The song Lost is produced by Ibukun Kafaru, to be released next month.<\/p>\n<p>Big Ma was the winner of the talent hunt organized by Tunde and Wunmi Obe two years ago, in remembrance of Stella Damasus\u2019s late husband, Jaiye Aboderin.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">blog comments powered by <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/2c0f09f4Big-Ma.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/04\/big-ma-romances-serenity\/\" title=\"Big Ma romances Serenity\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Ma romances Serenity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Opeoluwani Akintayo Following her debut into the Nigerian music industry some years back, the \u2018larger than life\u2019 singer, Big Ma, has upgraded, forming a live band of her own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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