Monday, June 30, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
IYEOKA and The ROCK by Funk TRIBE opens for ZAP MAMA
THE PARADISE ROCK CLUB
Doors:8pm
18+
$22
click the title for tix purchase.
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Find me Here.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, The Cloud Foundation and Opera Boston are teaming up to create an opera workshop for teens based on music from the opera Carmen
Monday, March 17, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
U2 Compilation In The Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U2 ignites major ripples in a Nigerian girl
3/14/08
Iyeoka is a Nigerian Girl with an African violet in her hair.
She wants to go back home.
Mother calls her from a Nokia cell phone in Benin City every Tuesday.
Mama says, “we miss you baby girl, when will you visit us again?”
“I’ll be home soon mommy, first I need to get to the Notable Productions studio and record this U2 “Desire” song for the Africa Celebrates U2 compilation.”
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo states that she has always had a simple goal to somehow change the
world one poem at a time. Little did she know she would be granted the opportunity of a lifetime to contribute to a track on an unprecedented release of Shout! Factory’s newest project "In The Name Of Love: Africa Celebrates U2". On April 1, 2008, Shout Factory is slated to unveil an album celebrating the music, culture and future of Africa, paying homage to Bono and U2 for their ongoing humanitarian relief efforts aiding her beloved continent.
“It is such an incredible honor to be included in an album with my fellow countrymen Tony Allen and Keziah Jones. I have followed Keziah’s work for some time now and my father is a long time fan of Tony Allen since the days he played with Fela. So to now be associated publicly with artists I have looked up to like Angelique Kidjo and legendary Vusi Mahlasela…even to see my name and picture in the same album booklet is a surreal experience.”
Iyeoka lends her talents to a song with the African Underground All-Stars featuring Optimus from The Foundation Movement and Sierra Leone rapper, Chosan in this song called Desire. The album will be released April 1, 2008 on Sony BMG.
"Desire" is the lead single from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. It was their first #1 single in the UK.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Africa Celebrates U2/ In The Name of Love
http://www.africacelebratesu2.com/
Friday, December 28, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
FESTIVALS, CONFERENCES, PROMOTERS, COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES-Booking /Press Inquiries
contact: Phanai Entertainment
bookingiyeoka@gmail.com
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Catch Iyeoka on Television PBS (WGBH)!!!
Episode 216 of FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman
Episode Titled:
"How to Get Dogs and Doggerel in Better Shape"
Iyeoka coaches the cast member how to write poetry.
Original Air Date 6/21/07
The Episode will air again on Monday 10/8/07 at 12:00pm (noon)
(channel 217 WGBXDT4)
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
a BOSTON GLOBE mention on "QUICK PICKS"
By Nick A. Zaino III
Monday nights through Oct. 1, the Paradise Lounge is the place to catch local soul, funk, and hip-hop with the Soul Power Tour '07. You could squabble and say it's not really a tour, but it does show off some under-appreciated talent from the local scene. Tonight at 7, it's Iyeoka Okoawo, whose inspiring, lyrical grooves bring to mind Lauryn Hill; R&B singer/songwriter Rob Murat from New York, who could play her ; and local blues drummer/vocalist Short'y Billups. You can also hear Okoawo on "Next On the Mic," a new collection from the Poetry Jam Collective and Rounder Records. 18+. Tickets: $8. Paradise Lounge, 969 Commonwealth Ave., 617-562-8800. thedise.com
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Congratulations to IYEOKA...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
gET IT wHiLE IT's HOT!

"Next on the Mic" is one of 2 major record label compilations Iyeoka will be a part of in 2007.
This compilation will be released under Rounder Records August 28th.
Monday, April 30, 2007
Iyeoka is now a NEST eligible artist!
Are you looking to invite Iyeoka to perform her empowering poetry at your event or cultural program? Iyeoka has now made it easy for you to obtain funding if you are located outside of Massachusetts. Read on...
New England States Touring (NEST) is a cooperative program with the state arts agencies of New England, that provides support to nonprofits for performances, readings, and related community activities by artists that have met the eligibility criteria for the NEST program.
*A "presenter" may be any nonprofit organization interested in bringing cultural arts programming to its community. Libraries, schools, theatres, service agencies, & arts organizations are all examples of eligible nonprofit “presenters” that can apply for NEST funding.
Grant Guidelines NEST grants are available in amounts up to 50% of the artists' fees. The total fee may include travel, accommodations and per diem. Minimum grants are $200 and applications with requests below that amount will not be accepted.
For more on NEST go to: MORE INFO ON NEST GRANTS
Monday, April 23, 2007
Current mood: Heavy.
Due to a relationship pushing a barrier of stuff that drives sadness and rust---
The deep descent of doubt that disintegrates
YEARS of building friendship and foundation together
These are the rough patches I never asked for.
Note to self:
One of the top 10 worst ways to hurt a friend is when the moment resembles an accidental rainstorm. The neglect is unintentional yet demandingly powerful.
The abandon becomes a reoccurring wave of lifting one choice over another.
Nurturing one garden as another grows dry and weak, heavy with weeds.
I want to feel light again.
I need my approaching celebration of a new birthday to be about what God sends.
Be about what that day needs to be reserved for. What love represents…
The thank you’s for another year.
The thank God I’m still here.
The people I find a way to make time for.
The--- I know my life is full of something and today is the most important reason to open that door and remember it…to fight for it!
Today is the most important day to live for it. It’s ok to do it in silent meditation. It’s ok to bring it in with a thousand of your closest friends. It’s ok to bring it in with your mom and dad on the telephone, no matter how far they are across the
I need 32 to be about where I am 10 years after 22.
Where I want to be 10 years past 42
The numbers will never appropriately serve you.
Your age should never be allowed to define you.
Because dreams are limitless...
There is not enough time and not enough room to linger on the moments in the desert that quietly breaks the heart that is built to remind you how to get lifted.
And I want to feel light again.
Light with friends that feel you’re worth it every single time.
So light they can see through the tears in your eyes that may never physically ever materialize.
I want to feel light again.
The kind of light you feel when the sun is shining on you for no apparent reason.
The kind of light you feel when everyone around you loves you for a reason.
The kind of light you need when the heavy finds you caught off guard and restless to survive the break into the dawn of a new season.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Top Boston Poet
The project is a high contender to be used in the next instillation of the Red Hot + Riot, a series of music compilation projects from the Red Hot Organization to be used as a fund-raising tool for AIDS awareness efforts.
A previous project from the Red Hot Organization was Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti) The album, which takes inspiration from the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was released by MCA on October 15, 2002 and featured more than three dozen artists on a score of tracks.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Iyeoka's Hit Songs now on rotation at BOSTON'S TOUCH 106.1
Call in to request Iyeoka's new songs "This Is Life" ft. The Foundation Movement , "If They Only Knew", or "Shine This Way" ft. Afro DZak on the radio. Listeners can contact the station by visiting www.touchfm.org or by emailing to touchfm@yahoo.com
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
2007 Hawaii Tour


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Hi Family!
If ur in the HAWAII area or have any friends and/or family that will be in or around honolulu this week please come out and spend some time with me at any one of my shows. I will be releasing a LIMITED EDITION prelude CD to Hum the Bass Line. This will only be available at these shows. This album will include "This is Life", "If they Only Knew", a live recording of "Blink of an Eye" with the Jeff Robinson Trio and new songs and poems. It will also feature 4 NEW poems from my brother Omoizele "Oz" Okoawo who as you all will discover or probably already know, is a better poet than I am...and I'm pretty darn good...so...yeah...
Anyway...thanks in ADVANCE for ALL YOUR SUPPORT!
LOVE HUGS AND more POEMS...more poems...MORE POEMS!!!
Iyeoka
01/31/2007
Midnight-ish - Radio show at KTUH with dj Bones.
(www.ktuh.org)
HONOLULU, Hawaii
Description: radio show at ktuh (www.ktuh.org) on Wednesday nite after midnite with dj Bones. TUNE IN... ALSO AVAILABLE ONLINE
02/01/2007
08:30 PM - Hawaiian Hut (SPECIAL APPEARANCE)
410 Atkinson Drive
Honolulu, 96801
US
Cost: $3
Description: February, 1 2007 at Hawaiian Hut - HawaiiSlam's First Thursdays 410 Atkinson Drive (ground level in the Ala Moana Hotel), Honolulu, 96801 Cost : $3 before 8:30, $5 after First Thursdays is the largest poetry slam in the world (with 650+ in attendance). Each month, the event offers $100 in cash prizes to the winner,info@HawaiiSlam.com
02/02/2007
09:00 PM - Ong King Arts Center
184 N. King street (near River st) Chinatown
HONOLULU, Hawaii
US
Cost: $10
Description: Event: First Friday at Ong King Arts Center Time and Place: Ong King Arts Center, 184 N. King St., Friday, February 2nd, 5pm-2am (art gallery opening 5pm-9pm, performance by Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo and the Quadraphonix 9pm-2am) Cost: 10$ (art opening free) Who Can Attend: All Ages! More Info: www.ongking.com see@ongking.com
02/03/2007
8:00 PM - Jazz Minds Arts and Cafe
1667 Kapiolani Blvd.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
US
Cost: $5
Description: Tempo Valley and Iyeoka jam it out at Jazz Minds






