Two of the world’s best-selling R&B artistes Mario and J Holiday, will be storming Ghana next month to stage a grand musical concert at the Dome of the Accra International Conference Centre.
Courtesy 233 Connect, a fast-rising events company committed to raising standards in Ghana’s entertainment industry, Accra will on the 30th of July play host to the two US-based artistes.
R&B superstar Mario, famed for his astounding showmanship and mastery of the genre, will be the main headline act for the concert, while the sleek and suave J Holiday, will support him to deliver a spectacular night of pure excitement.
Both acts, 233 Connect have said, will take to the stage of the Dome of the AICC with some of Ghana’s finest and Nigeria’s best.
Mario, 25, is known in real life as Mario Dewar Barrett. His 2002 hit song Just a Friend followed by Let me Love You in 2004, has won him worldwide acclaim, and earned him a place in the leagues of extraordinary R&B singers. Till date, he has released four studio albums; Mario in 2002, Turning Point in 2004, Go in 2007 and DNA in 2009. In the early 2000’s he was ranked on Billboard’s (#98) “Artist of the Decade” list.
Known in showbiz circles as Nahum Grymes, J Holiday came into prominence in 2007 with his Bed chart topping song off the Back of My Lack album, which managed a number 5 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, the same year. Bed continues to be a favourite of most lovers of the genre in Ghana. The 27-year-old songwriter has featured extensively on the works of some of America’s A-listers including Fat Joe.
Given their combined impressive repertoire and experience, all two are sure to deliver what would go down in Ghana’s entertainment calendar for 2011 as a concert that came around, saw and conquered.
Mario is so hooooot..omg
@cici,yeah he’s fine
@cici, maame lol
luv them
I hope they won’t go there talking crap like how Lloyed was.. dude actually thinks we don’t have blank CDs in Ghana.
@ghallday, ignorance my friend,You will be suprised how much that dude was paid to come over with his goons and talk jazz.
I think they should slow down on the foreign acts.These artistes charge ridiculous amounts of money.They shd invest in our local artists to take them to higher heights.Ive seen videos of Dbank,2 face,p square,etc. on BET,in studios with Mary J Blige,cash money etc.They are about to conquer America.We have equal talent in Ghana that needs investment and promotion.Ive lost count of the number of foreign artists in Ghana it the last couple of years alone……but hey if thats what the people want and its all about profits then i guess thats what they will keep on doing,but its really not helping
@esi, no they shud bring foreign acts to gh coz its always the same ghanaian artist at every event. you become tired of dem but i was hoping they would have bring some really hot popular american artist but dey didnt am dissapointed
@merel, i get what you are saying.I dont have a problem with bringing foreign acts,my problem is the investment in local acts and the seemingly shift in priorities which results in bringing as many foreign acts as possible.The frequency is what I am hoping will be reduced.
we need hot artists not the once with just a hit song on an album
you guys should have brought the chris brown,beyonce etc instead of wasting huge amounts on these c-list artist. its gonna be a flop.
@sash, exactly. i was hoping they would bring neyo or chris brown or somefin not dese 2. j . holiday only has 1 song.
@sash,Are you making sense c-list these two artist have made it all the way Mario is a well respected person been to both artist show and trust me they know how to sing and perform live Mario, is an R&B singer, songwriter, actor, model, dancer and philanthropist Mario’s inspire kids who suffer from the drug addictions of their parents and poverty there is a reason Mario is going there not only for performing @opoku who told you j. Holiday has only one song
Mario and j. Holiday hmmm good thing I’m happy for them it will inspire some of the artist in Ghana cause untill now I haven’t really seen no one singing r&b apart from rapping, it will give some if them the chance to collaborate with those artist like D-Black did with Jim Jones