Legendary Nigerian Musician, William Onyeabor Is Dead


Legendary Nigerian musician, William Onyeabor famously known for his song ‘When the going is smooth and good’ is dead. He was aged 70.

His first son, Charles who is currently in Italy confirmed his death exclusively to LIB saying, ‘yea, my dad is dead. He died peacefully on Monday January 16, 2017 at his palace in Enugu”.

Before his death, Onyeabor had 10 studio albums, has a cult following especially outside Nigeria.


Onyeabor was a remarkably elusive musician who, in the 1970s and ‘80s made ground-breaking, futuristic, synth-heavy electronic music that was far ahead of its time.

In his first ever radio appearance on the Lauren Laverne Show on BBC 6 Music in December 2014, he said ‘I only create music that will help the world’.

The late music icon is survived by 4 children and 4 grand-children.

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RIP

check out his hit song

"When the going is good" ..... I think Timaya remodel the song to be "when money no dey everybody run away...."



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fnTxm1u_34

" When the going is good..U will have many friends
They will say they love U.. They will say they need U.. they will say "ur our friend"
..and so on and so forth..
But when the going is bad, they will all disappear..and they'll never come back..
When they come back, they have come back to help in knocking you down down down down down down down down dooowwnn."


RIP sir. Loved this song. Hum it sometimes..

Creamish:
" When the going is good..U will have many friends
They will say they love U.. They will say they need U.. they will say "ur our friend"
..and so on and so forth..
But when the going is bad, they will all disappear..and they'll never come back..
When they come back, they have come back to help in knocking you down down down down down down down down dooowwnn."


RIP sir. Loved this song. Hum it sometimes..

lol your head they there

kai in those days.... we will be singing it on our way from school


any one that don't know the song belong to the indomie generation

robosky02:




lol your head they there

kai in those days.... we will be singing it on our way from school


any one that don't know the song belong to the indomie generation

The beat was so different from other songs then..so it was catchy. It is still one of my fave oldies.

midehi2:
RIP

indeed he has joined the legents league

Creamish:


The beat was so different from other songs then..so it was catchy. It is still one of my fave oldies.

that's it

and the massage of the song was just straight forward......

good oldies hmmmmmmm


for the indomie here is there version from timaya



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W2FDUQ99BU