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Legendary Highlife Singer, Godwin Kabaka, Is Dead
Legendary highlife singer, Godwin Kabaka Opara, popularly known as ‘Kabbaka’, has passed away at the age of 77.
Kabaka’s record label, ‘Derda Promotions’, announced his demise in an official statement that was released on Friday, March 22, 2024.
A part of the statement reads: “Derda Promotions is deeply saddened to announce the passing of our esteemed artiste, Godwin Kabaka Opara, an icon who pioneered and revolutionized ‘Highlife Music’. He died on Thursday, March 21, 2024.”
Kabaka was a talented and popular songwriter and guitarist whose entertaining and thrilling highlife music delighted many of his fans and lovers of highlife music.
His musical career saw many decades, music genres, and bands.
In 1973, he co-founded ‘The Oriental Brothers International Band’, a highlife music band that was recognized and enjoyed for its socially-conscious lyrics, musical dexterity, and authentic sound that captivated millions of people in Africa and beyond.
Kabaka began his solo career in 1976, when he formed ‘The Kabaka International Guitar Band’. He continued to make ‘high-quality highlife music’, releasing fourteen albums and producing successes such as ‘Mangala Special’.
He also experimented with Ezebongo rhythms to demonstrate his versatility and inventive capacity. Subsequently, he collaborated with ‘The Imo City Band’, solidifying his legacy as a ‘Legendary Highlife Musician’ .
In September 2023, kabaka released an album named ‘The Return of Kabaka’, that achieved over a million streams and was ranked in the top 100 albums worldwide.
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Nigerian Afrobeats singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, aka Wizkid, has announced that his sixth studio album would be dedicated to his late mum, Jane Morayo Balogun.
The ‘Ojuelegba’ hitmaker made the announcement in a video message shared via his social media platform on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
He also disclosed that the album, which is titled ‘Morayo’ and in honour of his late mum, would be released ‘very soon’.
Wizkid’s words: “My album ‘Morayo’, dedicated to my mum, the love of my life, drops very soon. Don’t dull. Don’t sleep.”
It could be recaled that Wizkid’s mother, Jane Dolapo Balogun, died on August 18, 2023, in London.
The singer said the pain of losing his mum ‘hurts deeply’.
In his words: “The pain is profound.”
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Actress Patience Ozukor: I Rejected The Name-Tag ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ On Me, To Have My Own Name-Tag ‘Patience Ozukor’
Nollywood veteran actress, Patience Ozokwor, has disclosed and talked about how people tried to impose titles and name-tags on her at the beginning of her career and how she handled it.
The veteran actress said when she began her acting career, people tried to compare her with legendary actress, Liz Benson, by tagging her as ‘Liz Benson of Enugu’ but she rejected the tag because she believes they are both unique.
She disclosed that she also rejected suggestions to answer her husband’s first name as her surname and instead chose to bear his family name.
She actually disclosed this in an interview session via a media platform.
Her words: “I don’t know how it started, all I know was that when I started my acting career and people started recognizing this woman from Enugu.”
“So, there was a time I came to Lagos for a shoot and people started saying, ‘That’s her, this woman from Enugu.’ They said, “You’re the ‘Liz Benson of Enugu.”
“I said, ‘No, with all due respect, I don’t want to be like Liz Benson, I want to be myself. I am ‘Patience Ozokwor of Enugu’.”
“And some people came and said, ‘You don’t even need to answer Patience Ozokwor again. Answer your husband’s first name Edmund; Patience Edmund.’
“I said, ‘No, because in Igbo land, you’re not just married by one man, you’re married by a family. I don’t know about other tribes.”
“So, my husband’s people, their name is Ozokwor. When you mention Ozokwor in any part of this world, people who know the Ozokwors would say ‘I know where she comes from’,” she concluded.
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