Tuface Idibia's Biography

Real Name
Innocent Idibia Ujah

Aliases
Tuface 2baba

Date of Birth
1975-09-18

Online Contact Info
www.2faceonline.com
www.facebook.com/2face Idibia
@2faceIdibia

Spouse(s)
Annie Macaulay (2013 - Date)

Children
Isabella Idibia
Nino Idibia
Justin Idibia
Rose Idibia
Zion Idibia

Awards
Affinity Awards (2002) - [Won] Best Male Vocalist Excellence Recognition Awards (2004) - [Won] Music of the Year Award for Excellence (2004) - [Won] Outstanding Contribution to the Entertainment Industry A.M.E.N Awards (2004) - [Won] Best Male Vocalist A.M.E.N Awards (2004) - [Won] Song of the Year A.M.E.N Awards (2004) - [Won] Best New Act Male A.M.E.N Awards (2004) - [Won] Best Video Nigeria Entertainment Awards (2004) - [Won] Song of the year Nigeria Entertainment Awards (2004) - [Won] Best Album of the year Nigeria Entertainment Awards (2004) - [Won] Best Hip Hop and R&B Artiste City People Awards for Excellence (2004) - [Won] Musician of the Year Channel O Music Video Awards (2005) - [Won] Best Male Video Channel O Music Video Awards (2005) - [Won] Best African Video of the year Channel O Music Video Awards (2005) - [Won] Best African Act MTV Europe Music Awards (2005) - [Won] Best African Act Kora Awards (2005) - [Won] Best African Act Afro Nollywood Awards (2005) - [Won] Best Musical Artiste Ghana Music Awards (2005) - [Won] African Song of The Year (Non Ghanaian) Hip Hop World Awards (2005) - [Won] Special Recognition Award Black Heritage Awards for Excellence (2005) - [Won] The Outstanding Musician of the Year G.C.E International Awards (2005) - [Won] Best Song of The Year The Future Awards (2006) - [Won] Musician of The Year Nigeria Entertainment Awards (2006) - [Won] Africa Break Through Artist of the Year Nigeria Entertainment Awards (2007) - [Won] Best Album of the Year MOBO Awards (2007) - [Won] Best African Act Nigerian Music Awards (2007) - [Won] Song of the Decade Hip Hop World Awards (2008) - [Won] Best R'n'B / Pop album Australian African Awards (2008) - [Won] Best African Act World Music Awards, Monaco, Spain (2008) - [Won] Best selling Nigerian Artist MTV Africa Music Awards (2009) - [Won] Best R&B MTV Africa Music Awards (2010) - [Won] Artist of the Year MTV Africa Music Awards (2010) - [Won] Best Male Channel O Music Video Awards (2010) - [Won] Most Gifted West African Video SoundCity Awards (2010) - [Won] Best Pop Video SoundCity Awards (2010) - [Won] Best Western 16th edition of the Annual THISDAY Awards presented by Bill Clinton and Arnold Schwarzenegger (2011) - [Won] New Champions For An Enduring Culture Africa BET Awards (2011) - [Won] Best International Act Hip Hop World Awards (2011) - [Won] Album of the year Hip Hop World Awards (2011) - [Won] Artist of the year Hip Hop World Awards (2011) - [Won] Best R'n'B / Pop album MOBO (2005) - [Nominated] Best African Act MTV Africa Music Awards (2009) - [Nominated] Artist of the Year MTV Africa Music Awards (2009) - [Nominated] Best Male MTV Africa Music Awards (2009) - [Nominated] Best Video Channel O Music Video Awards (2011) - [Nominated] Most Gifted West African Video Channel O Music Video Awards (2011) - [Nominated] Most Gifted Video of the Year

Labels
Kennis Music
Hypertek records


2Face Idibia was born Innocent Ujah Idibia in Jos, Nigeria. He is from the Okpokwu local government area and from the Idoma ethnic group in the southern part of Benue State, in central
Nigeria. He attended Saint Gabriel's Secondary School in Makurdi, Benue State. He schooled briefly in the Institute of Management & Technology, Enugu, where he did his preliminary National Diploma course in business administration and management. While attending IMT he performed at school organized shows and parties, as well as other regional schools such as the University of Nigeria and Enugu State University of Science & Technology. He would not graduate college.
While attending IMT, 2face Idibia started composing and singing jingles at the GB Fan Club at Enugu State Broadcasting Services in 1996. He would move to Lagos and started performing with fellow rapper BlackFace, forming the Plantashun Boyz. He had met BlackFace while attending IMT. He started calling himself "2Face" in 1996. He cited the reasoning as "trying to demarcate my personal life with my business life.
In 2006, his song "African Queen" was used in the soundtrack for the film Phat Girlz, which was released internationally.The Plantashun Boyz came together briefly in 2007 to record an album which they titled Plan B. He also released a promotion album in 2008 releasing the single, "Enter the Place". Problems with album distribution in 2007 caused as shift of the release date of the album from 2008 to 2009. Tuface released two singles from the international version of his Unstoppable album and is the first Nigerian artist to have an appropriately priced[5] international album.
2face Idibia released The Unstoppable International Edition album in 2010. For the album, he won two awards at the 2010 SoundCity Music Video Awards. He also won the Channel O Music Video Awards Best African Western award and the MTV Africa Music Awards for Best Male and Artist of the year. Upon leaving the music label Kennis Music, he set up his own record label known as Hypertek Entertainment. He is part of the Sony All African One8 Project alongside seven other musicians across Africa recording a single with R. Kelly and Prince Lee titled "Hands Across the World".He is the first non-Liberian to become an honorary member of the Liberian music society in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the growth of music in Africa.
2Face is known for his narrow escapes from death. He had a close shave with death three times, at different locations and times, including gun shots.
On May 2, 2012, 2Face Idibia and Annie Macaulay, a Nollywood actress, got married in Lagos, in a private ceremony. 2face announced his marriage via his Twitter page. He has a child with Annie Macaulay, and six children from previous relations. Annie Macaulay and 2Face had their traditional wedding on the 8 march 2013 in Eket, Akwa-Ibom State Nigeria.The couple also had a white wedding in Dubai,on the 23 March 2013 on an island with Nigerian and Ghanaian celebrities all present to see the long term couple tie the knot.
2Face has established an NGO called 2Face Idibia Reach-Out Foundation. which motto is service to humanity. In 2009, 2Face was appointed as ambassador the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. He released a song "Man Unkind" in order to raise awareness on the menace of fake and sub- standard food and drug products in Nigeria. In 2009, he was presented with the prestigious International Youth Ambassador for Peace Summit and the Nigeria Youth Merit Award by the National Youth Council of Nigeria in recognition of his contributions to youth development in Nigeria.