AFRO pop singer, Valentina Simon, popularly called T2 has a burning desire to rule the Nigerian music scene. “I want to be heard, I want to be seen and that is why I am working hard daily to achieve my goals,” she said after an energetic performance recently in Lagos.
The Delta-born entertainer had held the crowd ‘hostage’ at the celebrity restaurant, O’jez, for about 10 minutes as she performed her hit single, Hotter Dan Fire. Clad in black leather pants with high-heel shoes, she sang and danced to the admiration of all. “I am an upcoming artiste, very passionate about my music career. I am a writer and singer and I also love to dance. Composing music is my daily bread and God never disappoints me with inspirations,” she said.
T2, who started music professionally in 2004, said, she started out as a gospel artist and switched to secular songs because “I wanted to cut across all religions and now I mainly sing Afro Pop.”
For her, “It depends on what you see as challenges as I am focused and I know God will give me wisdom to handle the different situations to my best advantage. I try to perform as many live shows as I can, have DJs play my songs at clubs and radio stations to play my tracks. I am busy trying to secure sponsorship funding for a video shoot.”
So far she is enjoying her game as she said, “I received plenty offers for shows, even from other countries but they want to see me performing live on video before they will book me… At the moment, that is my biggest challenge to -- get a video completed, but that hurdle would be crossed soon. I also got signed on to a media management Company like all serious artistes do; Media Image Managers, MIM, is now the official media representative of T2, this is aside my own management team.”
So far, she has eight songs, but she is set to release two singles before the full album later in mid 2014. “I have eight songs but I am releasing Hotter Dan Fire and Mr Deejay simultaneously to prepare the general public for what will come in 2014.”
On her collaboration with star artiste, Wizboy, she enthused, “I’ve just finished a song with Wizboy titled 50-50 Love but it all depends if I need a partner for a duet but I prefer to perform on my own.
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