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PSquareThe story of P-Square began in St. Murumba College, a small Catholic school in Jos, Nigeria. Identical twins Peter and Paul joined their school music and drama club where they began singing, dancing, and miming songs by MC Hammer, Bobby Brown, and Michael Jackson.

They later formed an Acappella quartet called “MMMPP” (M Clef a.k.a Itemoh, Michael, Melvin, Peter, and Paul). Drawing inspiration from their music idol Michael Jackson, they began to break dancing, and formed the group called “Smooth Criminals” in 1997. They dropped M Clef from the group “MMMPP” which later was changed to “MMPP”. Their artistic talent and precise dance routine soon made them household names in the city of Jos, where they performed at school functions and other occasions. Later in 1999

Peter and Paul returned to music school to develop their skills on the keyboard, drums, bass, and rhythm guitar. Their work includes the soundtracks for a number of films like Tobi, Mama Sunday, Moment of Bitterness and Evas River. Later in 1999, they applied to the University of Abuja to study Business Administration. The Smooth Criminals disbanded when its members left for various other universities. Subsequently, Peter and Paul formed their own group, variously called
“Double P”, “P&P”, and “Da Pees”, until they eventually settled on “P Square”.

They are managed by Bayo Odusami aka Howie T, a seasoned concert promoter and the CEO of Adrot Nigeria Limited. In 2001, “P-Square” won the “Grab Da Mic” competition, and hence Benson & Hedges sponsored their debut album, titled Last Nite, which was released under Timbuk2 music label. P-Square was also nominated as “Most Promising African Group” in the Kora Awards three months after the release of their debut album. They eventually won the 2003 Amen Award for

“Best R&B Group”. In 2005, P Square released their second album, Get Squared under their own label, Square Records. This album was marketed nationwide by TJoe Enterprises, although they were still managed by Howie T of Adroit Nigeria Limited. The video for the second album held the #1 position on the MTV Base chart for four straight weeks. They have an ever-growing fan base across South Africa with a particular stronghold of die-hard fans in Cape Town. The group has performed alongside the following international artists Ginuwine, Sean Paul, Akon, and Busola Kenshiro.

The members of P Square are now located in Lagos. Late in 2007, they released their best-selling album so far, Game Over. It has sold 8 million copies worldwide. In 2009, P-Square released its fourth studio album, Danger. The album features collaborations with 2face Idibia, J Martins, and Frenzy. The first single called “Danger” is a hip-hop song with cutting synths and a frog bass baseline similar to an Eminem song. The video affirms this with the presence of clowns and staggered movements in front of the camera reminiscent of comical videos by Eminem.

They are also known for the close resemblance that the twins have to American R&B Superstar, Usher Raymond. On 4 April 2010, P-Square was named the Artist of the Year[citation needed] at the KORA All Africa Music Awards in Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso while they were in London for a Concert at the Troxy, and they will receive a whopping sum of $1 Million Dollars as the Award Winners, in Ebebiyin City. Controversies The duo are reported to handle most of their production/beat making in house.

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The band has been faced with many controversies for their habit of sampling western songs and popular hits in their records. They have addressed the issue many times in interviews as well as in the lyrics of their songs. Technically speaking, P Square does more in the line of reconstructing the drum patterns, chord progressions or lyrics of the sampled songs as against actually cutting parts of the song and directly sampling into their production. This accounts for the largely electronic feel of their sound. Some of the songs which have been called up on this account include “Get Squared”, “Game Over”, “Danger” and others.

P-Square attracted headlines when they reportedly turned irate when they were notified in the middle of their at the Guinness Show performance by the organizers about some change in plans which would affect the length of their performance, and that of the next act, 2face. As reported by a news site vanguardngr.com, the info apparently stirred up resentment as Peter immediately said

“I don’t know why anytime a foreign artiste comes to Nigeria, they (show organizers) wanna treat us like slaves in our country”. Although initially they continued their performance but midway through, they threw their microphones to the ground and angrily stormed out of the stage saying,

“We are leaving; they don’t want 2face to come on stage” They were said to have immediately left the premises of the show, but after the intervention of the show organizers, they came on stage later with 2face for a performance but later on were apologized to.

Discography Last Nite (2003) Get Squared (2005) Game Over (2007) Danger (2009) Awards Won Hip Hop World Awards 2006 Best R&B Album (Get Squared) Best Music Video (Get Squared) Album of the Year (Get Squared) Song of the Year (“Bizzy Body”) City Mag 9th Awards Show (2006) – Best Hip Hop Group Nigerian Music Awards (NMA) 2006 Album of the year (Get Squared Music Video of the year (Get Squared) 2007 Channel O Music Video Awards – Best Duo or Group 2008 Channel O Music Video Awards Best Duo or Group Video of the Year (“Do Me”) MTV Africa Music Awards 2008 – Best Group MTV Africa Music Awards 2009 – Best Group KORA Awards 2010 – Artiste of the Year LIL PERRY PRODUCTIONS 2010 – Producer of the Year Nominated BET Awards 2010 – Best International Act KORA Awards 2003 – Most Promising African Group (Nominated) MOBO Awards 2006 – Best African Act MOBO Awards 2008 – Best African Act MTV Africa Music Awards 2008 Best Live Performer Best Video Artist of the Year Best R&B MTV Africa Music Awards 2009 – Best Performer and many more recently.

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