VIP Begins US Tour March 17

Award-winning Ghanaian music group, VIP, made up of Promzy, Lazzy and Prodigal, is set to take off this month with its tour of the United State of America dubbed ‘Vision Tour’.

The group announced the tour early this year and said 2012 would be another year of breakthroughs. The tour is expected to catapult their career to new horizons and endear them to their fans in that part of the world.

It will be the biggest tour of the group’s musical career so far and it is scheduled to take off this month and run till June. The group will be in cities such as New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Texas, Maryland, Boston and more.

The tour will however be climaxed in Ghana with shows across the country. There will be performance in the US and a screening of documentaries of the group and how hiplife started with them, as well as their contribution to the music genre’s growth in Ghana. Most of the screenings, which is aimed at educating the world about hiplife, will be done in colleges.

VIP will be on the tour with a tall list of artistes yet to be confirmed but currently it is clear that sexy singer Tiffany and music group Fruit of Inspiration (FOI) will be on the tour.

The group is currently Ghana Music Awards’ reigning artistes of the year and has given its blessings to the artistes who have been nominated for the category in the upcoming music awards. Artistes in the category are Becca, Okyeame Kwame, Sarkodie, Efya, R2bees, 4×4 and Kwaw Kese.

Currently, the group’s single, ‘Which Kind Yawa Be Dis’, featuring Sarkodie, is hitting the airwaves. Its latest album is also almost done.