Posts
Entertainment News
Pioneers
Highlighting The Achievements Of Nigeria's Foremost Highlife Musician Sir Alex Uwaifo
04:38:00frankola
His best-known songs, "Guitar Boy" and "Mami Water", were a huge hit in 1966. "Mami Water" was inspired by an encounter (which he has long maintained actually occurred) with a "mami
This post was written with the intention of
celebrating and highlighting the achievements of a very great man who was one
of the first pioneers who changed the face of the Nigerian Highlife Music
Industry
Highlighting The Achievements Of Nigeria's Foremost Highlife
Musician Sir Alex Uwaifo
He was the first professional Nigerian Musician to recieve a
national honour, The first Nigerian Musician to be appointed as an Honourable
Commisioner in Nigeria, The first professional intellectual Musician with a
first class honour degree.
The first Nigerian Musician to be invited by the United
Nations to perform at the General assembly Hall New York, The first Nigerian
Musician documented in the Groove Dictionary Of Musicians and a prominent
feature in the world Encyclopedia Volume 8 in 1983 as one of the protagonist of
Highlife music in West Africa.
0 comments
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in comments are those of the comment writers alone and does not reflect or represent the views of Dark Continent Africa