Iconic Nigerian singer, Onyeka Onwenu, is reportedly dead.
According to thenicheng.com, the 72-year-old slumped after playing at the birthday party of popular socialite, Mrs. Stella Okoli, and was immediately rushed to the Reddington Hospital, Lagos where she passed away.
An eyewitness who was at the party confirmed the sad news to TheNiche.
“It is very sad. Onyeka Onwenu just performed at the birthday of Mrs. Stella Okoli today (Tuesday, July 30, 2024), and after performing, she slumped.
“She was taken to Reddington Hospital and she couldn’t make it,” the unnamed eyewitness told the newspaper.
Onyeka Onwenu, Nigerian musical legend used her music and its timeless messages to promote Nigeria’s culture.
Her music duet with King Sunny Ade entitled “Wait for Me” has remained evergreen. It is remembered always as a song with deep lyrical message which was put together to help the government of that era fight seriously against the outburst of population explosion while also regulating it with the different family planning programmes put together by the government.
Her song, “African Woman’’, helped greatly in projecting the innate exquisiteness of the African woman giving them a sense of pride and belonging amid poverty, widowhood, rape, lack of care, hatred, humiliation and abandonment, among others.
Her evergreen classic, “Sodom and Gomorrah’’, is a biblical narrative of the popular story of the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, a city destroyed by God due to their heedlessness and high level of immorality.