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interesting news for you my dear readers when I got this particular one…Lol! Reputable
media platform Pulse NG claimed they conducted a thorough investigation through
Emma Nyra's stay with the TripleMG record label, and we have disclosed why the
TripleMG first lady left her well cherished record label. Best we can do here
is to post it the same way we got it. Lol!
PULSE reports...
Pulse broke the story yesterday
of Emma Nyra’s exit from Made Men Music Group, home to Iyanya, Baci, Tekno,
Selebobo, and DJ Coublon, with executive responsibility shouldered by Ubi
Franklin.
According to our findings, Emma
left the record label after over 3 three years of engagement, relocating back
to the USA, where she schooled.
According to our sources, her
decision to quit was fostered by personal issues with Ubi Franklin, and what
many do not know is the true reason why she left.
Pulse conducted a thorough
investigation through her stay within the record label, and we have documented
that below.
The
Sweet Beginning
Emma Nyra (real name Emma
Chukwugoziam Obi) is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Nyra was born on July
18, 1988, in California and raised in Texas. Her father is a pharmacist and her
mother has had a home health practice.
When Emma Nyra was six years old,
she already liked to sing and wanted to become a singer. She pursued a Bachelor
of Science Degree in Health Administration at the Texas Southern University in
Houston, Texas, to please her parents and only then Nyra insisted on relocating
to Nigeria.
In 2010, Emma Nyra met her
manager, Ubi Franklin, during one of her Christmas visits to Nigeria. In 2011,
Ubi Franklin was working with Iyanya, who was just beginning to experience his
first taste of success through the hit single ‘Kukere’. Iyanya later went on to
cement his success with hit singles, ‘Flavour’, ‘Sexy Mama’, ‘Jombolo’ and ‘Ur
Waist’ from his sophomore album 'Iyanya VS Desire'.
With fame came money for Iyanya
and also Ubi Franklin, who close friends say had fallen deep in love with Emma
Nyra.
Emma, was immediately signed to
the newly created MMMG label and had her first feature on Iyanya’s hit single
‘Ur Waist’. Sources however tell Pulse that the single had controversy in its
creation; as Emma Nyra vocals were originally written and voiced by someone
else.
Sources says the chorus and
original vocals were rendered photographer-turned-singer, Toni Tones but was
replaced by Emma Nyra without a notice. The song was released in July 2012, and
quickly became a hit, with Emma Nyra starring in it, and scoring her first
flirt with popularity. ‘Ur Waist’ was nominated for ‘Best Pop Single’ and ‘Song
of the Year’ at The Headies 2013. To this day, ‘Ur Waist’ is seen in some
quarters as Emma’s best contribution to music in Nigeria.
Signing
To Made Men Music Group
With the financial rewards gotten
by Iyanya’s music, and deals struck by Ubi Franklin, Ubi now focused on
breaking Emma Nyra into the Nigerian music scene just as he had done with
Iyanya.
In 2012, Nyra came to Lagos after
her manager helped to convince her parents to allow her relocate in search of a
thriving music career. Industry insiders say Iyanya was however not in support
of the move.
"He had just began to reap
financial rewards and did not want to channel his funds to promoting another
artiste", one source told Pulse.
Once in Nigeria, work was put
into her career with massive funding channelled by Ubi Franklin into her
career. High budget videos were shot for her. The first of which is ‘Ori Mi
Wu’, directed by Moe Musa. The song was released in July 2012, with the video
released in January 2013.
In 2013, Emma Nyra released three
high budget videos; ‘Ori Mi Wu’ (January), ‘Everything I Do’ featuring Iyanya
(March), ‘Kere Shere’ (October).
Also in 2013, Iyanya and Emma
Nyra set out on US/Canada tour to promote Iyanya’s sophomore album, which contained the collaboration, ‘Ur
Waist’. The tour packaged by Big A Entertainment is regarded as one of the most
successful US tours by a Nigerian.
Problems,
Problems, Problems
With all of these happening for
her, Emma Nyra unfortunately failed to excite a huge number of Nigerian fans.
The success gained by Tiwa Savage, Omawumi and Waje, eluded Emma Nyra, and so
frustration set in. Which made her begin to search for other options.
Emma’s frustration with the state
of her career which had failed to skyrocket, made her try out different
options. Emma was still in a relationship with Ubi Franklin, but the rumour
mill went viral, as unconfirmed sources began to bear stories of a fling with
Chocolate City’s Ice Prince, and Mavin Records, D’Prince.
Reports have it that Ubi Franklin
had once or twice physically assaulted Emma Nyra. This is however unconfirmed
as both parties have distanced themselves from such rumours.
The lowest point of their
relationship was reached in December 2013, when Emma gave an interview to
Channels TV, stating that she had left the label.
“The label, yeah, we are no
longer together, nothing happened, I just didn’t renew my contract.” Emma Nyra
disclosed.
Emma also harboured plans to
start a movement for emerging female artistes, a movement she dubbed, the ‘Girl
Power Movement’.
With the news in the open, Emma
opened talks with various industry players, expecting people to rally behind
her, and support her movement. That support never came, and frustrated further,
she relocated back home to Texas, and began a new phase of planning.
Ubi Franklin made the move for
reconciliation, which was accepted, and she was brought into the fold, moving
back to Nigeria in 2014, to join the creation of the present MMMG label
roaster.
Tekno had earlier been signed in
October 2013, Selebobo was signed in March 2014, Baci had been a regular with
Iyanya, having made his bones as a creative force behind-the-scenes, and in
public as a backup singer to Iyanya.
With Emma Nyra’s return in 2014,
Triple MG set to work on their compilation debut album, with a massive
promotional campaign masterminded by Ubi. Emma released the solo single,
‘Amigo’.
The debut album entitled
‘Evolution’ was successfully released in May 2014. Emma Nyra’s solo single was
well-received, but it wasn’t well promoted, and didn’t get a video to go with
it.
Pseudo
– Renaissance
In April 2014, Emma Nyra released
a song with Davido titled ‘Elele’. The song received good airplay and a video
was released in September 2014.
A follow single was released in
late 2014 - the Dancehall single ‘For My Matter’. A video was also released in
December 2014.
More
Problems
In November 2014, Beat FM OAP
Fade Ogunro, took to Instagram to allegedly vent at Ubi’s behaviour (albeit,
without directly pointing fingers), insinuating he was still physically abusing
Emma Nyra.
She said:
Dear
CEO,
I
have learnt that In life, people will try and lie about you, bring you down,
those that hurt you most are the ones that disguise themselves as friends.
There’s one particular person in the industry that tries everyday to infiltrate
my life and break up my relationship. Jesus will always stop you from hurting
me emotionally, physically, mentally. When Jesus says yes, no man can say no!
Meanwhile this person stays beating up girls, he stays smacking the girl that is
signed to his label, they pretend they are in a loving relationship. Nope, she
cheats, he beats her. She has never admitted that she is your girlfriend, she
is clearly embarrassed by you. #DumbAss.
Same
nigga wants to lie about me, why you so extra? Stay outta my life, reality is
im in love and he hates that. Anyone who is any type of happy he wants to bring
them down. Go focus on your sad negative life. No matter what, God has blessed
me, deal with it. I have a wealthy heart and I’m cute. You just mad that the
only girls you can get are my mans leftovers from 5 years ago. You ugly, you
heart is ugly, your intentions are ugly. You will end up lonely and still ugly.
FOH!
The
world will see you for who you really are! #HaterAlert
Sincerely,
The
girl who has been in a loving 2 year relationship.
That story put the heat on Ubi
Franklin, but he remained quiet, refusing to respond to the allegations.
The
Last Straw
Ubi Franklin’s engagement to
Nollywood actress, Lilian Esoro caught many by surprise. On March 19, 2014,
Lilian Esoro finally it the cat out of the bag that she had agreed to get
married to Ubi Franklin.
This sparked quite an uproar on
social media, with a lot of people sharing polarized opinions about the new
development. Emma Nyra didn’t join the others in congratulating the couple. She was at the
time attending the 2015 SXSW event in Austin, Texas. She is currently still in
Houston.
Emma Nyra finally left Made Men
Music Group (Triple MG) and possibly Nigeria after over 3 years with the label.
According to reliable sources
within the recording house, the singer quit the record label due to personal
issues with her boss, Ubi Franklin.
“Emma has left their record
label. She not only left, she has relocated back to the USA where she came
from. Emma left due to personal reasons with Ubi Franklin”, a source told
Pulse.
Emma Nyra has been promoting
herself singlehandedly since the beginning of March 2015. She has also refused
to pick up calls or respond to messages from her (ex)label mates and managers.
"Emma Nyra is not picking
her calls, neither is she in communication with any of her friends and
colleagues." the source further revealed.
Her booking e-mail which used to
read bookemmanyra@gmail.com has now been changed to her personal email,
emmanyra@gmail.com and she has been in the U.S for more than 4 weeks.
Also, her erstwhile title, “First
Lady Triple MG” is gone. She now describes herself as “International Recording
Artiste, Nigerian Entertainment Award Winner” and her booking phone number has
been changed to an US number.
The rest of the TripleMG crew
have been carrying about their duties, with no mention of her. Iyanya, Tekno,
Selebobo, and Baci, have recorded songs with DJ Coublon, and Mystro, with a
video shoot already done without the diva. Triple MG will be releasing a new
song titled ‘Yudala’, in the coming weeks.
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