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Era-defining Benin musician dies aged 39. Rachida Houssou - BBC News, Cotonou. February 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM [Posidius Production]
Born in Parakou on 29 April 1986, Mignon began his musical work with his sisters in Ouidah, where he was a school orchestra conductor.While living in Porto-Novo, he was a bassist and launched an album in June 2007.
Osayomore Joseph was born in Ugha village near Benin City, Nigeria, on 29 October 1952. [2] He started his music career in the Nigerian Army Band during the 1970s. Death
He was the son of Tina Glamour , a popular singer, and the deceased musician and sound engineer, Pierre Houon. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He has an older brother who is well known as DJ TV3. Ange Didier started his music career in the early 2000s as a DJ when he was only 14 years old in Yopougon , a night-life district in Abidjan . [ 4 ]
Tony Bennett’s legacy will live on through the music he “delighted in performing,” his wife, Susan Benedetto, and eldest son, Danny Bennett, said following his death. The beloved singer died ...
Victor Efosa Uwaifo was born in Benin City, Edo State, Colonial Nigeria [4] and obtained his secondary school education at the Western Boys' High School Benin and St Gregory's College, Lagos, from 1957 to 1961. He began playing guitar when he was 12 years old, his earliest popular music influences being records of Spanish and Latin American ...
Melinda Wilson, who helped resurrect the career of her husband and "Beach Boys" musician Brian Wilson, died at home in Beverly Hills on Tuesday at age 77.
Fashek was born in Benin City to an Edo mother and an Ijesa father in 1963, but identified mainly with his Benin roots. Various translations of his name Fasheke (Ifá à ṣe èké) include "powers of miracles" and "divination does not lie", however, it refers to the orisha (deity) Ifa (deity of divination) of the Yoruba religion and means "Ifa does not lie/deceive."