Call it chance, fortune, destiny or a lucky shot in the dark, but the G Girls, Africa’s new diva darlings, ascent to stardom has not been devoid of challenge and difficulties along the way. Take John 1:46 and revise the text to read,” Can any good thing come out of Liberia?” The majority of the G Girls fled the war in Liberia and they are now refugees who live on the impoverished refugee camps in Buduburam. They are residing in Ghana, but originated from Liberia, West Africa-- a country that has been plagued with civil unrest, war and turmoil. It is a type of Nazareth, because nobody expected anything good to come forth from it. Only within the past few years has Liberia enjoyed peace, which was made possible after a free election resulting in the inauguration of its first female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. G Girls are the “Good Girls”, the good thing that has come out of Liberia. No doubt about it. They are comprised of four beautiful and talented young ladies, Leona Moore, 17, Carol Kaifunbah, 15, Genevieve Cox 18, all native Liberians and Margaret “Peggy” Dickson, 18 from the Osu district of Ghana. Genevieve is the newest member of the foursome. They started out with the name, “The Glorious Sisters”, a music group organized and supported by Eliza Seekie and her husband Arthur Seekie. During their stint as “The Glorious Sisters”, they only sung Christian music. However, they all loved to listen to and sing a mix of genres, like hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and African music. So they made the transition, but needed a new name. It was Stephen “Iso” Paelay, a popular TV personality in West Africa who suggested the name G Girls. He was instrumental in helping them enter a competition on TV 3’s reality show, GangStarz. After a grueling round of performances, they won in the finals singing Keisha Cole’s hit single, “Sent from Heaven”. That competition proved to be a turning point for all of them. Things began to move swiftly: a Liberian record producer from Atlanta, Georgia in the U.S., Carroll “Palmo” Paryo, was in the audience the night they won in the finals, they hooked up, signed a record deal with his label CRMG, did the studio recording that same summer with their release slated to hit the market before the year’s end. Their first self-titled release, G Girls, gives you a dose of real life relationships,-- “Got to get to Know Me”, is an easy-to-relate-to topic, which is sung with American Idol, singer, song-writer, Chip Days, co-produced with Wiley Morris (producer of Wirlwide Records). “Wanna be with you”, “Watch me Walk”, “Falling4U”-- are served up with saucy, sensuous lingo, incredible music production and serious vocal delivery. They get sassy in the song “I’m a G” and get you dancing on the floor with their club rendition “Mr. Deejay.” “Dream World” is all about pure, silly-girl, infatuation that keeps her locked in a fantasy world, while “Things that you Say” assumes an unplugged, old school feel and leaves you knowing just why you want to stay with your man. The debut album, G Girls, has hit the international market and is taking Africa and the U.S. by storm. It is amassing mixed reviews in Africa and abroad. “My strategy in signing G Girls to my label was a well thought out process,” Carroll “Palmo” Paryo of CRMG explains. “I wanted to take a part of Africa back to the states and market the group on both continents. So I did the vocal recordings in Ghana, but all of the production was done in the U.S. I didn’t want to put another African music project, with local dialect lyrics out there, because I know that pop, jazz, R&B and hip-hop are well received internationally. Furthermore, English is spoken world wide, so I’m like, why limit your market. I think people will be surprised to discover that these are African girls, not American artists, who are ripping it BIG TIME just like it is done anywhere else and gaining the same respect.” The geniuses behind the music production are Palmo and his son, America’s Got Talent celeb, Kenneth “Xclusive” Paryo—the brainchild behind most of the music composition. There is a mix of extraordinary writer/singers out of Atlanta who appear on the project, Wiley Morris, Chip Days, Veronica “Dice” Gamble, Carmen Liana and Mashanda Favors who put their signature touch on it. Their expertise definitely contributes to its success. The record label CRMG is the acronym for Cestos River Music Group which bestows homage to Carroll Paryo’s place of birth, River Cess, Liberia. The debut album, G Girls, has thirteen tracks which are a diverse mix and offers something for all ages, palates and cultures. It is totally designed to keep you listening and wanting more. It will be hitting your store shelves soon. So check it out.