EXCITING NEWS: TNG WhatsApp Channel is LIVE…
Subscribe for FREE to get LIVE NEWS UPDATE. Click here to subscribe!
Delta State born musician, Tony Grey who passed on at the age of 70 in the early hours of Monday April 10th, 2017 will be buried on June 30th after a brief lying in state that will take place at his residence that same day from 9.00am.
The respected musician who started his career in early 70s kept night life alive in the rich oil city of Warri. Tony Grey is popular for hit songs like She is my love, My message and Come back love.He was the in- house musician at Lido Nite Club Warri in the early 70s. Lido was the hub of night clubbing in Old Bendel State. The sprawling oil city at that time attracted fun lovers from far and near especially Benin, Auchi, Agbor and many others all anchoring at Lido where Tony grey held sway.
Fondly called Ozimba , the music legend once said in an interview how Warri lost her night life to civil unrests. According to him: “Between the late 1960s and early 1980s, Warri was one of the hottest entertainment cities in the country. But we lost everything to the violent political struggles and civil unrests that swept through the city in recent time”
Grey released his first album in 1969 and called it Sparking Jet.
See the video of the full burial itinerary below