IYEOKA’S TIMELESS SONG “THIS TIME AROUND” FROM NEW ALBUM “SAY YES”NOMINATED FOR INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARD Even as SAY YES makes Planet Ill Top 15 Albums Of 2010 list

We congratulate Iyeoka on being nominated in the R&B song category for “This Time Around” in The 10th annual Independent Music Awards. Even as Say Yes was released on November 9th 2010 and managed to fall into the radar of a Top 15 Albums of 2010 list. Iyeoka’s Say Yes joins the creativity rank of artist such as The Roots, Nas & Damien Marley, Bilal, and Erykah Badu who according to Planet Ill, have albums that exhibit a wonderfully executed LP in every sense imaginable.

What do you get when you merge the power of spoken word, the depth to cover topics like struggle, culture, love and soul with naked vulnerability and revelation? You get the theatrical, majestic beautifully brutal Say Yes. Superb in composition, creative in execution and holistic in experience.” – Planet Ill

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo among the 10 Nigerian writers to watch in 2011

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo – The poet
Like Tolu Ogunlesi, Boston-based Nigerian American Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is living proof that Nigeria has the highest ratio of pharmacists-turned-poets in the world. A bard, singer, activist and educator with a degree in pharmacy, Okoawo was also appointed a 2010 TED Global Fellow, a move which underlines her commitment to let her message be her medicine. Okoawo released her first solo album of poetry and music (“Black and Blues”) in 2004 and at the beginning of this month she put out her third, an album titled “Say Yes” which made history as the first-ever ‘Evolving Album’ which gives purchasers added content for free as the album evolves. Her name means “I want to be respected” in her native Esan language, and with her extraordinary talent we don’t see how we could do anything but.

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USA picks IYEOKA for theme song!

The year 2011 is sure going to be a great year for the  Nigeria-America internationally Award winning Poet,  Recording Artist for Underground Sun, an educator and a frequent visiting teacher at the Esalen Institute,owing to the recent development that the first track on IYEOKA's SAY YES album, The Yellow Brick Road Song, has been picked as the Theme Song for USA's new show Fairly Legal!! You can check out info on the show here or catch the latest episode Thursdays on USA at 10/9c pm.

If  you ask me this is good news for her and her Fans.Go Girl
All the best.
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