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January Ordu biographyAngela Chinyere Ordu, aka Chi Chi Ordu or January Ordu, was born in 1971. Her father was a Nigerian physician and her Mum a teacher, she has no sister or brother. She says that she started singing before she could even walk... She spent her childhood and youth between Germany, the USA, Nigeria and Great Britain. Back to Germany in the early 90s, she studied business administration at Giessen and Frankfurt but put all her energy into the music. She started songwriting. She did vocals for B.G. Prince of Rap under the name Chi Chi Ordu, appearing on the tracks Round And Round and Walk Over The Rainbow, on his album The Time Is Now. Meanwhile, she scored success with her own cover band Legere. After moving to Berlin she took the scene name of January Ordu and started working with DJ Company. Together, they toured through Europe and the USA in 1997-98 (via Sony), hitting the US-charts with Rhythm Of Love. In 1999, she got signed under Universal and released the solo-single One Love under the name January. The single had some success in the German charts. She also did vocals and Jan Delay, Sam Ragga Band (Hamburg), Katja Riemann… and published several recordings with Brothers Keepers (Warner) and on Cool Struttin’ (Polydor). Then, Angela had to take a pause as she fell sick with lupus. She explains that she "had to slow down my musical career. Surviving a serious crisis in 2006 I had to learn moving, speaking and... singing again". 2008 : back to music, she published Grey Cat on Sisters Keepers album Gender Riots (Echo Beach). Then she joined the live-project Queensland Band, along with Jeffrey Lee Mills (piano), Victor Ocano (bass), Yaw Freeman (drums) and Benedikt Reidenbach (guitar). Angela Chinyere Ordu on Myspace The biography was last updated Sat, January 02nd 2010 Did you like this article ? Tell your friends
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