A Very Good Bad Guy’: The Story of Innocent ‘2face’ Idibia’, the biography of Nigerian pop icon 2face will finally be released on Tuesday October 20, 2015. The book launch, according to NET publisher and Idibia’s former publicist ‘Ayeni Adekunle’ will hold at Terra Kulture, in Lagos.
The 460-paged book will contain a wide range of materials on Idibia’s life and times, including accounts from his mother, his wife, siblings, colleagues and mentors. It will also contain selected lyrics and discography, as well as editorial materials dating as far back as 2005.
The biography, done in commemoration of the singer’s 40th birthday, is a first-of-its-kind for any pop star in Idibia’s category, and the first by any contemporary Nigerian media platform. Fully funded and edited by NET News, owners of Newsroom, THENETNG, Orin, NECLiveand Star, the biography is part of the NET Book Series, a dedicated project to document an important era in Nigeria’s creative industry.