Onyeka

b. Onyeka Owenu, 17 Might 1961, Onitsha, Nigeria. Steering a training course between middle-of-the-road worldwide pop and her very own eastern Nigerian root base music, Onyeka provides various professional passions outside music. She originally educated being a journalist, going for a get good at’s level in communications in america and working on the United Nations head office in NY before returning house to function in Nigerian tv. In 1984, for BBC Tv, she provided a programme entitled The Squandering FROM THE Riches, a crucial go through the management from the Nigerian overall economy. Onyeka’s recording profession started in 1981 when, by using Sonny Okosun, she released Onyeka. This is implemented in 1983 with Countless Lifestyle. In 1985, dissatisfied using the accounting techniques utilized by Nigerian EMI Information, who acquired released both her albums, she create her very own label, Ayolo, and released EACH DAY Light. Afterwards that season she released a bizarre one, ‘Trina 4’, on London-based expert label Stern’s, a strangely powerful combination of reggae rhythms and bagpipe melodies. Small was noticed from her for an interval, until she collaborated with Ruler Sunny Ade in the past due 80s on AWAIT Me, the record which triggered a surprise of controversy when its roots – within the USAID Workplace Of Inhabitants’s work to stem the tide of overpopulation – became open public.