Death again hit the Nigerian entertainment scene on Sunday as Lagos-based fuji
artiste, Sunny T Adesokan, passed on.
The musician nicknamed Actor Jordan
occupied a unique place in the fuji genre as he was the only known Igbo man
that convincingly practised it.
He died at over 40 years of age on
Sunday morning after what his associates described as a brief illness.
According to his long-term promoter,
Mr. Tunji Sarumi, otherwise called Saroj, Sunny performed in Epe, on the
outskirts of Lagos, on Friday.
The proprietor of Eruowa Records is
quoted in a media report as saying that the artiste, whose last album, Capable,
was released in 2011, was healthy until the early hours of Sunday when he
complained of cold.
His condition was said to have later
degenerated.
He was said to have been rushed to a
hospital in Ikeja where he later died.
Notable fuji artistes, Wasiu Pasuma,
and Alao Malaika, described the death as a big blow to the Nigerian
entertainment industry.
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