Black Eyed Peas Storms Lagos
World renowned musical group, Black-Eyed Peas, will be in Lagos at the end of the long holiday and get Lagos entertainment buffs to unwind.
The group will entertain thousands of fans as the pepsi-presents tour hits Lagos, weekend. Supported by THISDAY Style Maga-zine, Pepsi Black, Blue and You Tour sponsored by Afribank, is billed to take place in the typical THISDAY tradition of staging globally acclaimed icons and entertainers at the THISDAY Center for Education and Arts located at the Lekki Expressway in Lagos.
The grammy-award winning Black-Eyed Peas has undoubtedly become a global phenomenon, the likes of which the music world has rarely seen.
Having traversed global entertainment circles, after energizing crowds around the globe with its raving album “Elephunk” featuring the quartet including Williams and Fergie.
The 2003 release, “Elephunk”, was a breakthrough album for The Black Eyed Peas, vaulting them to a level of success unparalleled by any other hip-hop group. The accolades are quick to recite: 7.5 million albums sold worldwide, 4 Grammy nominations, 1 Grammy award, and an unforgetable performance on the 2005 broadcast.
But if Elephunk was the group being crowned prince of the castle, then “Monkey Business”, their fourth album, is The Black Eyed Peas’ conquering the throne to become King. It is an album that further intensifies their passion for making music together, for connecting with their audience through the most fundamental ways: giving people good time.
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The Black Eyed Peas performed at the UK leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007 at Wembley Stadium, London and a member of the group, William, also performed a new song,”Help Us Out”, at the event, which is now on his album, “Songs About Girls”
The Black Eyed Peas headlined the main Ocean Stage at the Summer Sonic Music Festival in Tokyo, Japan on August 11 2007, and Osaka, Japan on the next day. The act comprised of the band performing their hits, as well as Fergie singing solo tracks from The Dutchess, as William, is popularly called also sang songs from his upcoming album.
The group is currently on the Black, Blue & You World Tour, visiting 13 countries, including Macau, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Hungary, South Korea, Malaysia and India.
Other coutries on the card include Indonesia, Singapore, China, Australia, Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Brazil.
The tour will be presented by Pepsi, in conjunction with the new “Pepsi More” advertising campaign, featuring The Black Eyed Peas. In fact, “Pepsi More” is a promotional single made just for the new Pepsi spot.
The group performed at the millineum celeberation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last month.
[Via This Day ]
