Legendary High Life Musician, Victor Uwaifo Dies At 80

Nigeria’s legendary highlife musician and guitarist, Sir Victor Uwaifo died on Saturday at the age of 80 in Benin.

This was made known by his nephew, Uwaifo Peter De Rock who broke the news on his Facebook page on Saturday evening.

Peter, who is a gospel artiste and multi-instrumentalist, did not disclose what led to the death of the Uwaifo.

While expressing his grief at the passing of the musician, he said, “Daddy, why did you leave us now. Prof sir Victor Uwaifo has gone to rest. Black Saturday for me now,

“One week now after collaborating with me.”

The music icon whose tracks “Joromi” and “Mammy Water” were hits till his demise, was a multi instrumentalist and a renowned virtual artist.

Before the death of legendary musicologist, he served as Commissioner for Arts and Culture under the governorship of Lucky Igbinedion.

A First-Class graduate of Visual Arts at UNIBEN, his undergraduate project of ‘A king on a horse’ is a signature arts poster at the Ekenwan Campus of the university.

Sir Uwaifo played the guitar with dexterity and he is known for his dancing steps.

As at the time of this report, the cause of his death was still not known.