2face & Annie, How it all Started.

A real true love story, after all the ups and downs, the break- ups, cheating and all, they still ended up as ONE!

One of Nigeria’s modern music icons, 2face Idibia is getting married today to “the love of his life”, Annie Marculay.

From the Start, How  2face Met Annie.

Annie first met 2face Idibia at Even Ezra Music Studio when she was just fifteen and in Annie’s words, “I think there was some electricity that second”.

They were merely friends first but had started dating officially by the time they made the “African Queen” video in 2004. That was when 2Face announced that they were together during an interview.

According to Annie, “I remember my 16th birthday at Alpha Beach, with me and my friends. When we were going home, we all walked to the bus stop with him and his cousin. Plantashun Boiz had just recorded “Knock Me Off” at the time so he wasn’t a star yet.
So we got into the bus, he sat in front with his cousin so when we wanted to pay the conductor, he said, “no, he don pay already” I was feeling like a babe. “Hey! My boyfriend paid everybody’s bus fare.” And that time, bus was like N2.50k or N3 per person for about 14 people. But he told me recently that he didn’t eat that night because he paid for everyone.”

Their Breakup(s).

Soon Annie’s entertainment career became a lot more difficult as a result of being known as ’2Face’s gir’ and then they had their first breakup, came back and broke up again.

She was hurt when word got out that, in quick succession, two women had become pregnant for 2face – Pero Adeniyi and Sumbo Ajala. At that point, the couple (2face and Annie) broke up.

2Face and Annie had their longest break-up which lasted almost a year and a half When Pero and Sumbo yet again got pregnant for 2Face once again. But as they say, love will always find a way, they made up again and Annie gave birth to 2Face’s fifth child Isabel and then in 2012, Pero gave birth to his sixth child in the US. Well, Pero couldn’t even prevent them from being together.

2face Proposes.

On the Valentine’s Day of 2012, at Jay Jay Okocha’s Club 10 in Victoria Island, Lagos, 2Face proposed to Annie. They weren’t even dating then, although were still on talking terms after he had called her out of the blue a few weeks before, visited her at home and asked for her forgiveness and friendship.

According to eye-witness reports, 2Face took Annie to a quiet section of the club, he knelt down and told her “I KNOW WE have had OUR ups and downs but it will be MY heart’s desire for YOU to marry ME” and then presented the dazzling ring and Annie began screaming “YES, YES, YES” after crying her eyes out!

Their Secret Union.

Shortly after 2Face‘s concert when he brought out then-fiancee, Annie during his performance of “African Queen”, the two secretly legalized their union in a Lagos registry on Tuesday, May 1 2012.

The duo later went ahead with a traditional wedding on Friday 8th March 2013 in Akwa Ibom State followed by big wedding parties before & after. The white wedding will be taking place in Dubai today, Saturday the 23rd day of March 2013.