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Music is huge in Nigeria and while there are celebrities already dominating the industry, there are quite a number of them still struggling to be heard and seen.

Reports have emerged that Popular music producer, Babatunde Okungbowa, popularly known as OJB  Jezreel , is dead, three years after a successful kidney transplant surgery in India. He was said to have died early this morning, June 14, in a Lagos hospital, just one month to his 50th birthday. A family source claimed that his kidney transplant failed completely since last week. Recall …

Papa Wemba, a 67-year-old Congolese rumba music legend, died after collapsing on stage in Abidjan in the early hours of Sunday.   A report from a private morgue in Abidjan where his body was taken, said Wemba, born in 1949, was performing at the Anoumabo urban music festival (FEMUA) when he collapsed on stage.   Wemba was born in 1949 …