Music News | 26 January 2007 08:57 CET

RISING STAR NIFFER

Her real name is Ekpereamaka Iroh. Born on 24th November in the mid 80s. Niffer got into music in her Primary school days when she was the social Prefect. During event days in school she had to make her mates laugh, dance and mime songs to the delight of her teachers. Few years later while she was a student in secondary school her teacher encouraged her to take her musical career seriously. She heeded the advice and recorded her first single though not for commercial purpose in 1998 entitled 'This Thing Called Love' but felt she had to concentrate on her academics.

Niffer currently whose style of Music is rhythm and blues has 13 songs in her kitty including a duet with wave making Nigger Raw entitled Me and My Girls', 'Aba Onitsha Lagos' (reproduced by OJB Jezreel in year 2004), 'Help the kids', 'Lets go Party'.

Niffer's musical career is exclusively bankrolled by her elder brother a DJ popularly known in Switzerland as Iroko.
Niffer intends to release her debut which will have only eight tracks soon.
She is an undergraduate student of Abia State University where is studying English and Literary Studies.

BY TAIWO OBATUSIN

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