Stephnora Okereke
Award winning artists Psquare and actress Steph Nora Okereke are currently at logger heads, a development that might see them heading to the courts.
Steph-Nora Okereke recently alleged that they stole materials from Jeje, one of the tracks in her yet-to-be released debut album. Incidentally, the 14-tracker album titled ‘The Invasion’ released by the twin-brothers on their Square Records (SR) has a song entitled Jeje, and featured RnB/Soul crooner, Waje.
The actress cum producer who is just making a foray into music sampled the opinion of Jude Okoye, the elder brother of the stars, several months ago with her own version of the song.
Steph-Nora reveals that she sought the opinion of the elder Okoye based on mutual respect and his experience as a moving force behind the success of P Square. The visibly upset actress says:“What they did was to remix the chorus of my version to a danceable track. That was not all; they also gave their version the same title, Jeje and featured Waje.”
She explains further: “I sent the song over to Jude via email and he listened to it. The next day I called him for his opinion and he said exactly these words ‘Stephnora the song is good but don’t release it like that because it doesn’t meet the standard of the Nigerian market’. I asked him what should be done and he suggested that I return to the studios and brush it up.
“As a brother and colleague, I took his advice and went back to the studio with my producer, Jiff. I also consulted with my manager, and we agreed to improve on the work ahead of the album launch, which I planned for this December. I finally completed the song in May/ June. But to my consternation, two weeks ago my personal assistant called my attention to P Square’s new album, which included a track entitled Jeje.”
Ope Banwo in his reaction disclosed that he intended to file a copyright infringement lawsuit against P Square next week if they do not respond to their demand letter. “This kind of thing should not be tolerated. P Square is a big group that should not take advantage of up and coming artistes and their friends. Stephnora trusted them and they stabbed her in the back,” he added.
Jude Okoye was contacted on phone,he denied stealing or tampering with Steph-Nora’s song. He however, challenged the actress to go to court if she feels otherwise, adding that she was only seizing the occasion to attract more attention to her acting career.
– Yeoal.
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August 21st, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Some people na to spoil another person image,instead of u to concetrate in ur acting job u now went ahead condeming people’s image.let me ask u,what did u know about music?
August 21st, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Stephanie must be very stupid can she ever sing a kind of song in her life…if she is really gud let her sing another one naw..instead of making mouth
August 24th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Dis woman don craz,maybe she don chop bribe.she dan dey mad.p-square no lele,dont dul cos u ar supa stars.
August 24th, 2011 at 10:18 am
U guys know nothing about the industry…this is gradually becoming the style of successful artistes even in the US. All they need do is hear your sound or tune & then they’ll make a hit out of it…ask Lil Wayne who currently has several cases lined up against him and so many others
August 28th, 2011 at 11:48 am
nora why cant u face ur movie career than spoiling my brother name,well am also a twin,steph be wise
August 31st, 2011 at 1:01 am
Steph can you pls pray to God for another song and forget this crab bcs they are stars and you can disgrace you so pls get your life back and continue with your life
September 1st, 2011 at 2:31 am
Dis matta should be treated seriousely at Court so dat as a note of warning 2 anyone who tries to copywrite other peoples songs.but on a second note we should be sure of wat we are saying so dat we dont just lie on innocent the ones.
September 1st, 2011 at 9:00 am
everything is pure lie,my guys dont stole any songs 4rom any gud dem person
September 6th, 2011 at 11:57 pm
guy, try and brush up ur english like jude asked her to do to the song b4 you drop comments. u want to send peeps to meet st.paul b4 their tym?
September 6th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
i believe if she’s got a strong case, she can head to court. this stuff happens all the time and all that happens is that pple shout them down like pple are already doing on this blog. i hope she wins so that it’ll be a lesson to all artistes.
September 7th, 2011 at 12:10 am
well wat i know is that, p square is good in stealing and remixing other people songs.. Go check their previous album u will see its mostly foreign songs remixed lol
September 7th, 2011 at 6:31 am
Stephnora jst want to spoil dos duyz name …can she ever sing a song like dat or she think it is easy..she should just back off and stop saying nonsense..
September 7th, 2011 at 10:07 am
One thing I knw 4 sure is that those guyz are good @ copying everthing even their dance steps, lyrics everything oh. So I believe steph jare those guys shld try and get creative and stop copying