{"id":24837,"date":"2018-11-07T12:25:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=24837"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T15:02:35","slug":"savage-balogun-tiwatope-tiwa-savage","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/savage-balogun-tiwatope-tiwa-savage\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVAGE-BALOGUN, Tiwatope (Tiwa Savage)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiwa Savage is a Singer, Songwriter, Performer and Actress. In 2006, Tiwa Savage participated in the UK edition of The X Factor and advanced to the final 24 contestants. In 2009, Sony\/ATV Music Publishing signed Tiwa Savage to a music deal. The deal solidified her to write for Babyface, Kat Deluna, Fantasia Barrino, Monica and M\u00fda. She has received songwriting credits for her contribution to Monica&#8217;s soul-tinged ballad &#8220;Catch Me&#8221;. Moreover, her collaboration with Fantasia on the song &#8220;Collard Greens &#038; Cornbread&#8221; earned the American recording artist a Grammy nomination in 2010. Tiwa Savage wrote Jaicko&#8217;s &#8220;Oh Yeah&#8221; featuring Snoop Dogg, and Kat Deluna&#8217;s &#8220;Push Push&#8221; featuring Akon and David Guetta. Tiwa Savage performed background vocals on Whitney Houston&#8217;s album &#8220;I Look to You&#8221; in 2009. In December 2011, she co-hosted the second season of Nigerian Idol alongside IllRymz. Moreover, she made her film debut with Joke Silva and Ireti Doyle in the stage adaptation of For Coloured Girls. In July 2013, Tiwa Savage signed an endorsement deal with MTN Nigeria reportedly worth \u20a630 million. She also signed endorsement deals with Pepsi, Forte Oil and Maggi.  Tiwa Savage became the first African female artist to be associated with the Pepsi brand after signing an endorsement deal with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24841,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[30,2466,2470],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-24837","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-singer","category-songwriter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24852,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/24837\/revisions\/24852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24837"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=24837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}