Catherine Equere aka EMAH is an Akwa Ibom born rapper/singer, songwriter and performer. Born in Calabar and exposed to the media at a weeny age, she started performing at NTA Calabar Children’s show at the age of 5. In her school days at Command Secondary School Abakaliki, she started writing songs with her best friend at the time, Patricia Allison. The duo was known for performing regularly at social nights and organizing end of the year get-togethers. Her first professional contact with music was with Freestyle, former member of Trybesmen. Through Zulutag of Africanroots ent., she met Freestyle and recorded her first song, ‘’He’s Mine’’. She gained admission into University of Uyo to study Communication Arts and dedicated 70% of her time to her education. While in school, she was also polishing her skills and working with producers like Sunky and Jamix of the Styl-Plus fame. In 2009, she graduated from University of Uyo and moved to Lagos for her National Youth Service. In lagos she met with Kaycee Oguejiofor, Question Mark’s manager at the time who’s also her friend and they planned her journey through music together. In 2010, she recorded a couple of songs with SoSo and consulted a couple of professionals in the entertainment industry like, Shola Thompson, Djinee and a host of others, who veted her songs and put her in the right direction. For 2011, she took a back seat to study the map of the Nigerian entertainment industry while working as a Tv Presenter for Infinity Television. Finally, EMAH, is back full time with her official single, “My Behind”, produced by Kandy Beat and just in case you think she may be a ‘one hit wonder’, there is more where that came from.
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