{"id":8574,"date":"2014-01-22T05:38:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T10:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=8574"},"modified":"2014-01-22T00:40:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T05:40:57","slug":"meet-abimbola-bim-fernandez-nigerian-girl-wants-next-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/social\/meet-abimbola-bim-fernandez-nigerian-girl-wants-next-rihanna.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet Abimbola &#8216;Bim&#8217; Fernandez, The Nigerian Girl Who Wants To Be The Next Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story is culled directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/20\/meet-the-nigerian-heiress-who-wants-to-be-the-next-rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New York Post<\/strong><\/a>. Abimbola &#8216;Bim&#8217; Fernandez is the daughter of Nigerian billionaire Antonio Deinde Fernandez. I had never, ever heard of her or her father before this post, but I&#8217;m definitely listening now. I&#8217;m gonna go try and figure out why their name is Fernandez. What am I missing? At first, I thought New York got the title wrong by calling Bim Fernandez a Nigerian, but I was wrong. Had you heard about her before now?<\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Article and picture from <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/20\/meet-the-nigerian-heiress-who-wants-to-be-the-next-rihanna\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>New York Post<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8579\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8579\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8579\" alt=\"Bim Fernandez stretches out in her Hell\u2019s Kitchen pied-\u00e0-terre \u2014 an original Picasso hanging behind her. Carmen Marc Valvo dress, $2,640 at carmenmarcvalvo. com\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bim Fernandez stretches out in her Hell\u2019s Kitchen pied-\u00e0-terre \u2014 an original Picasso hanging behind her. Carmen Marc Valvo dress, $2,640 at carmenmarcvalvo. com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Rihanna first launched her singing career, she may have dreamed about landing the kind of fame and fortune that would allow her to buy a Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>But pop star wannabe Abimbola \u201cBim\u201d Fernandez, who counts Rihanna as one of her role models, already has an original canvas by the Spanish master hanging above her bed in her Manhattan pied-\u00e0-terre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8580\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Fernandez1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8580\" alt=\"Heiress Bim Fernandez in her luxe Midtown apartment. The daughter of reclusive Nigerian billionaire Antonio Deinde Fernandez, she dreams of being a pop star. Gillian Harding pleated caftan dress, $1,300 at gasparee.com\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Fernandez1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"729\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Fernandez1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Fernandez1-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heiress Bim Fernandez in her luxe Midtown apartment. The daughter of reclusive Nigerian billionaire Antonio Deinde Fernandez, she dreams of being a pop star. Gillian Harding pleated caftan dress, $1,300 at gasparee.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 24-year-old beauty doesn\u2019t need to aspire to a life of wealth and luxury. She is the daughter of Nigerian gemstone tycoon Antonio Deinde Fernandez, who Bim says is worth a staggering $8.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Her privileged background might raise the hackles of many a cash-strapped artist struggling to break into the music industry, but Fernandez insists: \u201cMoney can\u2019t buy a record deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can\u2019t buy good music. You can either sing or you can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SMH Records clearly thought she fit into the former category. The Charlotte, NCbased label signed her last fall, and Fernandez\u2019s first release, the single \u201cLet\u2019s Take It Naked,\u201d debuts Tuesday at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smhworldwide.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">smhworldwide.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, during her interview and photo shoot with The Post, she flitted energetically about the Hell\u2019s Kitchen apartment she began renting last November at the swanky Mercedes House, which boasts unobstructed views of the Hudson and indoor and outdoor pools.<\/p>\n<p>She is wearing leggings and an Armani sweater. Relaxing in the corner of her couch, she delivers a running commentary on her apartment\u2019s notable d\u00e9cor \u2014 besides the Picasso, there\u2019s an original Dr. Seuss painting her mother gave her as a child, a family picture with Kofi Annan and a photo with Nelson Mandela, whom she called \u201cUncle Mandela,\u201d having known him since she was a kid.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8581\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez-and-her-father-Antonio-Fernandez1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8581\" alt=\"Bim with her father, Nigerian gemstone tycoon Antonio Deinde Fernandez.\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez-and-her-father-Antonio-Fernandez1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez-and-her-father-Antonio-Fernandez1.jpg 700w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Abimbola-Bim-Fernandez-and-her-father-Antonio-Fernandez1-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bim with her father, Nigerian gemstone tycoon Antonio Deinde Fernandez.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fernandez didn\u2019t exactly have a normal childhood, even by the standards of high society. While other first-graders from affluent families might have a pony show up for a party, 7-year-old Fernandez enjoyed riding around her parents\u2019 Westchester estate atop an elephant for an African safari-themed bash.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Fernandez\u2019s insistence that she didn\u2019t know she was wealthy as a child, her reclusive 80-year-old father is believed to be one of the world\u2019s richest men, thanks to the diamond and gold mines he owns in the Central African Republic, now rife with sectarian violence. Let\u2019s just say it\u2019s not the type of place you\u2019d want to go on vacation.<\/p>\n<p>He originally started out owning an oil company called Petro-Inett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a coup in the Congo,\u201d explains Fernandez. \u201cHe made his first million, I think, [by] trading \u2014 obviously this is before I was born. They would give him oil in return for food, and then he would sell the oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if that\u2019s legal, so if it\u2019s not, don\u2019t quote me,\u201d she adds, with a laugh. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with it. My dad\u2019s a genius.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born of royal blood but not money, Papa Fernandez is a retired UN ambassador who now owns four homes: a mansion in Larchmont, NY (where his daughter spends about half of her time), a house in Brussels, a palace in Nigeria and a French hunting ch\u00e2teau that once belonged to Napoleon Bonaparte.<\/p>\n<p>Three private jets fly him between his properties.<\/p>\n<p>But Fernandez says she\u2019s making her own path and launching a career without her father\u2019s help. (Though he does reach into his deep pockets and give her a certain amount of money each month.)<\/p>\n<p>It was after Bim\u2019s mother, Aduke, died last year that Bim finally decided to pursue her dream of stardom and step up her game as a tribute to her mom. She sealed a deal with SMH Records in November, and a reality-TV pilot about her life is in final negotiations for pickup by a major network, according to her label\u2019s co-owner, Michael A. Smith. The iTunes release of \u201cLet\u2019s Take It Naked,\u201d a flute-infused, bubble-gum dance-floor jam, is expected soon, along with a music video and radio promotion from distributor Caroline Records (a division of the very big deal Capitol Music Group).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not even that racy of a song!\u201d Fernandez says about the provocatively titled track. \u201cIt\u2019s very poppy, like, \u2018I think you\u2019re cute! Do you like me? So let\u2019s get naked!\u2019 I want it to be that song where it\u2019s like, \u2018Turn that song on! Let\u2019s get ready! Let\u2019s do shots!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s little surprise, then, that Fernandez\u2019s father is not vetting any of this \u2014 he\u2019s always encouraged his family to be highly private, don\u2019t-talk-to-the press kind of people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s terrified because I\u2019m his baby \u2014 especially with [me] revealing [my] wealth, and me being alone in the country, he\u2019s terrified of someone kidnapping me and holding me for ransom,\u201d she says. \u201cHe also just doesn\u2019t want people taking advantage of me because I have been very sheltered my whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Born in France in 1988, Fernandez first got interested in music at age 4 \u2014 her parents made her perform violin for them in the music room every Sunday. She picked up guitar at age 13 at boarding school, due to a passion for Courtney Love and for the Irish band Blink. Her professional debut would come years later when she moved to New York after a one-month stint at Oxford Brookes University in England. \u201cEveryone was way too snobby \u2014 I couldn\u2019t do it,\u201d Fernandez says of her unhappy few weeks there.<\/p>\n<p>Stateside, Fernandez immersed herself in concert culture, befriending members of the pop-punk band Forever the Sickest Kids. They, in turn, introduced her to Gabe Saporta, lead vocalist of Cobra Starship. \u201cI was sitting in their dressing room, and I didn\u2019t know anyone, [so] I was just pretending to fidget through my purse,\u201d says Fernandez. \u201cI had a [black] Centurion AmEx, and it fell on the floor. Gabe picked it up and goes, \u2018Whose is this?\u2019 And I go, \u2018It\u2019s mine.\u2019 And he goes, \u2018Who are you?\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The encounter fortuitously led to a featured role on the track \u201cNice Guys Finish Last\u201d from the band\u2019s 2009 album \u201cHot Mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, 4\u00bd years later, Fernandez is finally getting her chance to be where she\u2019s always wanted \u2014 the spotlight. After her mother\u2019s death last May from colon cancer, she\u2019s ready \u2014 her philosophy being that every day is precious and you should pursue your goals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gave me the push to try a little harder,\u201d she says. \u201cI definitely, more than anything, think this has happened because of my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the road to Rihanna-dom will not come easy. Fernandez is well aware that her silver-spoon background is a gift to her detractors. (SMH Records\u2019 Smith is quick to point out that she hasn\u2019t paid for any of this.)<\/p>\n<p>But that whole socialite thing might be a hindrance, too. Just ask Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian, whose recordings haven\u2019t exactly turned them into Britney Spears.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that, unfortunately, everyone\u2019s perception of socialites has been pretty accurate so far, which is what I want to change,\u201d says Fernandez. \u201cPeople think I\u2019m exactly like Paris Hilton, that I do nothing, I don\u2019t work for myself, I don\u2019t make my own money, I just spend my dad\u2019s money, and I\u2019m a spoiled brat. I hope they\u2019re not right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is culled directly from New York Post. Abimbola &#8216;Bim&#8217; Fernandez is the daughter of Nigerian billionaire Antonio Deinde Fernandez. I had never, ever heard of her or her father before this post, but I&#8217;m definitely listening now. I&#8217;m gonna go try and figure out why their name is Fernandez. 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