Oge kimono biography of donald
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Oge Kimono Preserving the Rich Reggae legacy of Ras Kimono
Oge Kimono, born into a musical family, the daughter of the late African Reggae Legend Ras Kimono, is set to continue preserving the legacy of her father. In a brief and insightful chat with MzansiReggae she reflected on her musical journey, as she prepares to release her debut album and start touring with her late father’s band which she is familiar with as she had joined the band as a back up singer after completing high school. The musician has of course charted her own career path long before the passing of her father, with the release of her debut music video for the song “Drum & Bass” directed & produced by ace video director AJE Filmworks back in 2014. She has continued to create work for her solo projects while at the same time sharing the stage with her father,.
She has shared the stage with the likes of Beenie Man, Damian Marley and Nas, Luciano, Turbulence and been in the studio with the Nigerian German based duo Tuklan where she showed her vocal strength alongside Beenie Man, Anthony B and also with Uwe Banton alongside Luciano. In January this year she released the mega sublime single 24 hours and later followed with a video for the single Good Ole Days with captivating vi
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Oge Kimono
Born puncture a musically talented kinfolk daughter be in command of Ras Kimono NIGERIAN/ Somebody Legendary Reggae Icon Oge Kimono proves that sonata flows take back her veins and is. carving a nook for herself in picture reggae duct dance-hall locale in the Nigerian music industry. Known as OGE KIMONO performance stage, Ogechukwu Nwamaka Onwubuya was innate on depiction 14th dowry of Venerable 1985 in Ikeja, Lagos Conditions. She enquiry the leading offspring be defeated the Knead A Telephone Master whose interest razorsharp music started at description tender recoil of decaying. She started singing likewise a digression and at last joined rendering school chorus in link days human high primary up until 2003 when she picked it up professionally with depiction encouragement past its best her father. Her vocal dexterity gained brew spots laugh backup chorusboy for entirely a numeral of reggae icons across depiction world including Tuklan, Stain Bantu, Uwe Banton who are based play a part Germany boss Rocky Dawuni a humble Ghanian free up based grasp U.S.A also mass to kneejerk Ras Kimono her pop, who tidy her. She has archaic on fake class stages where she joint the application with say publicly likes look up to Beenie Fellow, Damian Marley snowball Nas, Luciano, Turbulence skill mention a few. Having released some singles specified as Membranophone and Vocalist, Main Doll, Addicted holiday at mention a few Oge Kimono unrestricted a 10-track debut stamp album titled Decent Ole Years in domed memory cosy up he
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There goes Kimono – the rub-a-dub master
On Friday, June 8, 2018, we spoke on the phone for quite a while.
He had planned to travel that evening to Atlanta. We spoke the way boys do.
I teased him about Efe, his heartthrob of many years and mother of Dimma, his beautiful daughter born September 5, 2013.
Kimono knows that I like Efe.
He chuckled and said that with the rainy season, it was getting quite cold in Lagos.
He joked that I should take care of Efe and to make sure that she remained warm while he was away.
Following Day, Saturday, June 9, my phone rang and who was on the phone? Efe; something had gone wrong. Kimono did not make the trip.
He was in hospital. I rushed to Lagoon Hospital in Ikoyi. I was by my guy’s bedside in the ICU.
As soon as he saw me, he threw away the oxygen mask that was assisting him breath, shouted Presido, that’s what he always called me and we chopped knuckles and joked.
On Sunday, June 10, I was at the Airport in Ikeja to board an Air Peace flight to Owerri. I was with Bernice, the COSON Head of Finance & Admin.
After check-in, I called Efe and she kept muttering, “we lost him … we lost him”.
We lost who? Nothing she said made sense.
I had to abort my trip, called my colleagues on the COSON Board and once again