That’s a name you’re not likely to have heard before but the trio were the real attraction as they opened the Gang Starz music reality competition on TV3 last Sunday.

Made up of Emmanuel ‘The Boy’ Agbeko, Alberta Naa ‘Binoblings’ Thompson and Emmanuel ‘4nzy’ Agbanyo, they were not part of the contest but they wowed everyone with their fine voices and adorable stagecraft as they rendered their own version of the popular Kojo Antwi piece, Metonko.

The song is one of the tracks from their yet to be released debut album. The group’s name was coined from the first letters of their nicknames.

The trio told Showbiz they sought permission from Kojo Antwi to treat his song their own way and he gladly agreed. According to the group,they later played back their rendition to the Music Maestro and he loved it.

Some TV3 viewers might have made out Binoblings and 4nzy when they appeared on the screen last Sunday because they took part in the station’s Dance Fever contest last year.

Though The Boy did not participate in Dance Fever, he was always around with his friend 4nzy.

The trio said they met during the Dance Fever season and decided to do music because they love to dance, they have always been attracted to music and had ideas about being serious with it.

“We’ve decided to let creative dance be an integral part of our stage shows. We want people to remember not only the songs but also the beautiful dances that go with them,” they said.

“It is a strategy we’ve adopted to sell our music and ourselves.”

Music runs deep in the families of BB4. Binoblings’ father, Afrikabi Aper, is an excellent drummer and the leader of the Bawasaba Band based at the Odo Rhythms Jazz Club in Accra.

Previous groups he has played with include Magic Aliens, Nokoko, Nokoko-Ye and Zonglo Biiz.
“My father constantly told me I had a great voice and must not waste it.

He takes me through singing lessons whenever he can spare the time and helps where I fall short,” Binoblings said.

The Boy also stated that his father, the late Stephen Nuworkpor, played the guitar and at a point worked with a band in Libya. He said his father taught him how to play the guitar.

” What he taught me generally about music is helping me a lot now. It is what I am making use of today.

We write and arrange our own songs so we know what we want and what to expect before we get to the studio.

We do not look up to the sound engineer to create beats or arrange our material for us.”

4nzy said though none of his were seriously into music, they still loved it and his mother is even a leader of an Agdadza group.

“I simply love music and it has been around me since infancy,” he added.

Whilst BB4 enjoyed their moment of fame , the participating groups tried to deal with the bottled up tension which begun to ease as they started to come up stage to perform and hoped they would be retained for the following week.

2HOT, however, were eventually evicted. They performed Rock Steady by the Whispers.

They did fairly well but there were some vocal glitches which the lead singer attributed to a problem with his throat.

Last Sunday’s show took the studio audience and viewers back to the 1980s. Other groups performed songs by artistes such a Kool and the Gang, Madonna, and Marcia Griffiths.

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