The Nigerian musician, singer, songwriter, and producer J. Martins (Martins Okechukwu Joshua Kalu Okwun) finds strength in himself and in the world’s reaction to Afrobeat music.
Born Innocent Ujah Idibia in Jos, Nigeria, Nigerian afrobeat sensation 2Face “2Baba” always knew he wanted to be a musician. “The beginning of everything is very difficult,” says the 44-year-old singer-songwriter. “You have so many different challenges. For me, I had a dream.”
I started off in pageantry at seventeen. I initially wanted to do pageantry just because I was very low on self-confidence. I was bullied. Being an African in America is not easy. So, I went into it just thinking it was going to be fun but I didn’t realize how much pageantry would change my life.
