Nigerian music icon Femi Esho dies at 77
Femi Esho, chairman of Evergreen Musical Company, is dead, aged 77.
The deceased’s daughter, Bimbo Esho, said in a statement on Tuesday in Lagos that the music practitioner died on Monday after a brief illness.
She said, “We announce the passing unto glory of our patriarch, Samuel Babafemi Esho, popularly known and referred to as ‘Baba Esho’, Baba Musician, etc.
“Baba Esho departed to greater glory on Monday, June 17, 2024, after a brief illness at the age of 77.”
Esho described her father as a mentor and encyclopaedia for highlife musicians.
“He will be remembered as one who gave so much of himself to see to the ‘immortality’ of the musical works of Nigerian Highlife, Juju, Sakara, Apala, Afrobeat and a crop of other Nigerian and African genres of indigenous music,” she added.
(NAN)
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