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Religion is politics and send down the rain.

Papa payo...... mama mayo...... send down the rain...

Send Down The Rain is one of my favourite songs from him. Back then, my friends and I liked shouting out the 'yagayaga yaya yayayoo' part

Majek in New York

Rainmaker

things happen this year sha

Send down the rain

HOLY SPIRIT


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJ_oAdKDa0

Majek Fashek in New York

noah24:
Spirit of love... Holy spirit ❤️❤️❤️

Am with you bro
No more sorrow ft 2Baba
Am jamming it right about now

So long, too long.

RIP ,,,,fine man lived very rough life

robosky02:
Nigeria's Raggaei legend Majek Fashek late: post his song you liked most.

After battling a long time illness, Nigerian music legend and reggae king Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly called Majek Fashek, is dead.

Majek Fashek was born on March 7, 1963 in Benin City to an Edo mother and a Yoruba father but identifies with his Benin root.

Fashek was married to Rita Fashek who inspired the song Without You; the couple had four children but has since divorced.

Some of his musical works include Prisoner of Conscience that featured multiple award-winning tracks Send Down The Rain (1988), Little Patience, Spirit of Love, I & I Experience, So long too long, Rainmaker, Weep Not Children and Rasta Ganstar.

Here are few things to know about Majek the Rainmaker:

1. Majek Fashek various translations of his name Fasheke (Ifa-Kii-she-eke) include “high priest who does not lie”, “powers of miracles” and “(system or medium of) divination does not lie”.

2. After Majek’s parents separated, Fashek remained in Benin City with his mother and joined the choir in his local Aladura Church and learned to play the trumpet and guitar whilst composing songs for the choir.

3. In the early eighties Fashek, who at the time went by the stage name Rajesh Kanal, joined the group Jastix with McRoy Gregg, and was lead singer for Black Rice. They were best known as the in-house band on the show Music Panorama on NTA Benin City.

4. In 1988, shortly after Jastix disbanded Fashek, he began a solo career by releasing the album Prisoner of Conscience and became Nigeria’s top reggae artist after the song Send Down The Rain became the most popular song of the year.

5. In 1989, he won six PMAN awards, which included Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Reggae Artist of the Year.

6. After leaving Tabansi Records, he was signed to CBS Nigeria in the early 1990s and released So Long Too Long. In 1990 he was signed to Interscope Records and released the critically acclaimed album Spirit Of Love, produced by “Little Steven” Van Zandt.

7. Fashek played a supporting role in the 2000 Nollywood movie Mark of the Beast and starred in a commercial for non-alcoholic beverage Diamant.

8. In 2016, he performed in a comedy show (with more than ten thousand audiences in attendance) in Lagos, Nigeria, with a roundly power-filled and soul-lifting performance.

9. In December 2016 Fashek contributed the song “We Are Not Afraid” to a video featuring 200 celebrities to raise funds for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

10. During the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, he was unhappy about the Nigeria-South Africa crisis. He recalled that he did a song Free Mandela and it helped back then.

Source: Wikipedia


Some of his best hit's


Send Down the Rain’ and


‘So Long Too Long’.


‘Late Night with David Letterman’.

Prisoner of Conscience that featured multiple award-winning tracks Send Down The Rain (1988),

Little Patience, Spirit of Love, I & I Experience,

So long too long,

Rainmaker,


Weep Not Children and


Rasta Ganstar.

Nigeria is paying 21dolls for every barrel of crude drilled you are here talking of majek fashek.
Do u know that oil is the mainstay of this economy and any thing that affects it, we r doom?

So long is my all time favourite, i love the video too.
Majek Fashek inna New York....

So long is my all time favourite, i love the video too. Make Fashek inna New York....

Little Faith and Send down the Rain

religion na politics

yaki84:
Nigeria is paying 21dolls for every barrel of crude drilled you are here talking of majek fashek.
Do u know that oil is the mainstay of this economy and any thing that affects it, we r doom?

Carry your comment to you ppl's politics thread

This is a thread to honour a man, Majek Fashek. If you don't have anything to contribute to it, then have some decency to say nothing.

I don't have a particular best tracks. Majek is good.

Majek Fashek - I am not tired and Jah People.
Both tracks from his "spirit of love" album.


Mother was very good too, I can't remember what album that was from. In mother was the track e shouted mama dede oyoyo. Say oyoyo.

Religion is politics, so long, holy spirit were good too, and both 2 versions of send down the rain.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WBhYAPaqDg



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVcXrNaz0Qk



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9CUOVMAco

Send down the rain and holy spirit

I have a list of them from send Down the rain,mother,holyspirit,religion is politics virtually none of his songs are not meaningful to me .that's one thing lacking among today's muscians.

Them say you are black,them say you are white, but only the angels of God is white now.....so long for too long.

NaijadrivaCars:
Awanna ray awanawana ray
wata so gban nna

that's Ras kimono

NaijadrivaCars:
Awanna ray awanawana ray
wata so gban nna

that's Ras kimono

My Guitar - From I & I experience album

Almost all his songs are classics because of the rich lyrical content. ... unlike the rubbish we hear today by one kid & the other African Giant

NaijadrivaCars:
Awanna ray awanawana ray

wata so gban nna

He wasn't the one that sang this song, it was Raskimono

GOODBYE MAJEK FASHEK (Goodbye Legend)

Majek Fashek - Holy Spirit

Those who sow with tears
Shall surely reap with joy. on that day
When men revile you say all kinds of things against you
Your reward shall be. on that day

And there will be no more sorrow(no more)
No more weeping (no more weeping)
No more crying (no more crying)
No more pain
No more sorrow(no more)
No more weeping (no more weeping)
No more crying (no more crying)
No more war

(And no more de.) Holy Spirit
Take over the world now
Cause I am crying
Come take all over me now
Holy Spirit take over the world now
Cause I am crying take all over me now

Majek Fashek - Holy Spirit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkJ_oAdKDa0

I am not tired....
Majek fashek