What happened to the first female hiplife group aka Triple M?

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Do you remember the track Girlz Girlz? The song received massive airplay in late 2003 and it came as an answer to Okomfour Kwaadee's Boyz Boyz. Girls Girls introduced Triple M, made up of Mildred Mark-Hansen, Mercy Quarshie and Monica Tawiah, to the Ghanaian music scene. They were the first female hiplife group, even though they initially started out by singing gospel music in 1995. They never released a gospel album though. Another of their hit singles was Koti, a song about policemen who beat an irresponsible husband while his wife pleads for mercy. After the Koti album, they featured on Jay Q's Compilation, where they delivered one of 2003's biggest hits, Driver, which was the female version of Castro's Sradenam. Their sophomore debut was called 3+1=? (yes, you read that right). And then Mercy went solo, and we didn't hear much about the group. Museke.com brings you a quick update.

We never really got the hang of the title of the second album. Other outlets reported the title as 3-1=? which may have meant one of the girls left the group. This album (2005) had tracks like Mempe, Shun am, Sweetie sweetie, Pletu and Mmarima. However, it didn't do as well as their debut and they never quite got the level of popularity Mzbel achieved.

Soon after, Mercy went solo and called herself Manye Mercy/Queen Mercy. The former student of Ebenezer Secondary School presented herself as an alternative to Mzbel. She is the niece of Franklina Jones, a gospel musician. The album was named Manye Mercy and had tracks like Me ne Kwame nam (Sika do), Saa adee no, Nbele laaje, Mele ni yaa, etc while featuring Okra, Bright Bling Sparkles, Stone Boy, Biggie Man and Bell Born-fly. Her debut album was not very successful but she featured on Tic Tac's Beware of Dogs together with Ex-Doe, and LIB Queen's Pretty Woman.

Mildred was the original leader of the group and is the daughter of Jerry Hansen of the famous Ramblers International Band. Maybe she will become more of an Afro-pop/highlife musician other than a hiplife artiste. She released her first solo singles in early 2008. Her full showbiz name is Shege Styler (Shegee) . She's featured on Mzbel's Kiss me together with Kwabena Kwabena and LIB Queen's Oga u go pay. She caused an uproar in the Ghanaian music scene with King Ayisoba after they supposedly tied the knot in her music video called 'So much love'. King Ayisoba's real wife was not pleased with the publicity stunt at all. At first glance, I thought it was really true, Wanlov da Kuborlor was the best man! Both artistes are produced by Pidgin Music.

Watch the music video below.

We don't know what happened to Monica yet but stay tuned for more.

King Ayisoba weds Shegee
Wanlov Ayisoba Shegee Shege Pidgen Music

Watch the video for See me so (sister) by Shegee

Shivon's picture

Hey guys, I was just wondering why we haven't got any of Triple M's lyrics on here. If anyone knows them, then please try your best to put them on for their fans. PLEASE. We will be extremely greatful. Thank you in advance for your time and patience. God bless you all especially the kind ladies and gentlemen who pay attention to this cry for help.
Thank you once again.

Chale's picture

Hey Shivon, thanks for the request. I will work on the Koti lyrics and Girlz Girlz should be up at some point. They have all moved on so we probably should not dwell too much on their music as a group. Check out Manye Mercy and Shegee's music.

Shivon's picture

I can't believe how much of a gentleman you are to reply so quickly. Please accept my upmost gratitude. This means so much too me. I appreiciate it highly. I was just windering if you knew any Ga lyrics too. Please don't fell as though i'm putting preasure on you. I detest that greatly. I'm very sorry if I am. Thank you again.

Chale's picture

Shegee is out with her debut album called 'My time'. The album includes a remix to 2Face Idibia's popular song called 'See me so'. Could she be doing something similar to 2Face's song which people thought was directed at his former colleagues in Plantashun Boiz? Sheegee was part of the original Triple M.
The album supposedly has 10 music videos.

Other tracks on the album are Zinzima, So Much Love, etc

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