Do
you remember Julie Pip? They called her Bada mama jamma of Nigerian pop music?.
She
was one of the biggest celebrities of the early and late 90s and graced almost
all the major tabloids of the era.
She
also made some albums before becoming born again and continued with gospel
music.
The
main news now is that after releasing her second gospel album and after setting
up a church, the Agbor Delta state born elegant Evangelist Julie Pip Okoh
relocated to the US where she studied Theology and has founded another
Christian ministry which has music as one of its main focus.
Now
known as Bishop Juliana Coby who dishes out gospel music at will in the US, she
has organized several crusades and planning a major Nigerian church programme
to gather distinguished Nigerians under one roof.
Her
new music The Lord that healeth is currently being celebrated by lovers of
gospel as a fusion of African pop and R& B.
In
a recent chat, Bishop Juliana said “God has revealed to me that Nigeria’s
problems will be a thing of the past and all things shall become new”
However
Julie Pip did not start as a musician. She started as a beautician and
fashionista with a big salon off Toyin street around the famous Allen Avenue of
Ikeja Lagos where celebrities went for make- over.
It
was sometime in the early 2000 that Julie shocked Nigerians to announce she was
now a born again Christian and all other things had become new as old things
had passed away.
She
gave away all her beauty equipment and enrolled in a bible school and released
a gospel album not long after. She also founded a church; Triumphant Church of
God on one of her properties in Lagos even though she did not lose her fashion
sense.
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