THE POP PIONEERS. A young woman rises to international fame as a pop star during the explosive music scene of the 1990s. As her stardom accelerates, she must navigate predatory label contracts, artistic exploitation, personal loss, and the high cost of authenticity in a cutthroat industry. [Part One opens in Surulere, April 1993: seventeen-year-old Adaeze Nwosu sings in the bathroom of a run-down bungalow while rain drums the zinc roof; veteran producer Baba Esho, in town for a funeral, hears the voice leaking through the downpour and knows it is the sound of something that arrives once in a generation.]
