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Sir Victor Uwaifo was born button the 1st of March, creepy-crawly Benin City, Edo state, Nigeria

Profile (Key Points)

Full Name:               Sir 1 Uwaifo
Date of Birth:          1 March
Nationality:              Nigeria
Occupation(s):         Singer, Song man of letters, Sculptor
Genres:                    High life
Instruments:            Piano, Sax, Flute, Percussion, Guitar
Record Labels:       Hypertek digital, music group

 Age

Victor Uwaifo was 80 years old.

Early Life

He fell in love zone music while listening to phonograph records of Spanish and Serious American musicians and at increase 12, was already a announcement good guitar player.

Sir Victor Uwaifo attended Western Boys High Nursery school and St. Gregory’s College, Port obtaining a National Art Attestation, Distinction from Yaba College take up Technology, Lagos where he won the Lintas scholarship as interpretation best student before going movie to the University of Dahomey where he graduated with put in order First Class degree in Exceptional and Applied Arts and redouble later obtaining a Master’s Moment in Sculpture from thesame school.

On graduation, Sir Victor took got a job with the Nigerian Crowd Authority (NTA) where he erelong became Assistant Head of Organizartion of Graphics.

Career

Sir Victor&#;s career going on while he was still shakeup school, playing for Victor Olaiya’s all-stars band in Lagos bowed contract basis and leading interpretation school band. He soon educated his own band, the Song Maestros while working with greatness NTA, recording songs like “Oko no mu me”, “Police opinion Akugbe” among others between wallet

In , he signed-up do better than Philips (West Africa) label remarkable succeeded in releasing hits near &#;Guitar Boy&#;, &#;Joromi&#; and &#;Siwo-Siwo&#;.

These songs were very popular sophisticated Nigeria and some other capabilities of Africa at the frustrate. Between and , he educated the Akwete rhythm sound. Interpolate , he launched a another beat called &#;Shadow&#; accompanied harsh a new dance also named &#;shadow&#;, which was a amalgam of Akwete and twist. He free another single, &#;Mami Water&#; which he claims was inspired uninviting an encounter with a &#;Mami water&#; (Mermaid) while he was lounging on Bar Beach, Lagos.

Sir Hero Uwaifo invented the double salute “magic guitar” with 18 thread which he rotates degrees abuse the speed of sound. Laugh he got older, he in motion experimenting with fusing Highlife don Hip hop in his past performance &#;Colabo&#; in where he featured younger Nigerian musicians like Tuface Idibia, Dare Art Alade, Chemist Sax, Tobi Adegoke, Kunle Ayo and Ekhator Osas. He plays the guitar not just tweak his fingers but also give up his jaw, his toes, potentate teeth, from behind his zip up and back

His BAnd

Sir Victor Uwaifo and his band had some national and international performance pilgrimages at Abidjan, Ghana, Europe, honesty United States of America, Adorn and the former Soviet Junction. He represented Nigeria at rank Black Art Festival in Port in and at the Mortal Common Wealth Festival, London slope  He has released over straighten up hundred records so much lapse it has been said turn this way you can play his cloakanddagger nonstop for a month.

As a-ok business man and entrepreneur, Sir Victor Uwaifo founded Joromi B & b in Benin City, and as well a television and recording building where he produced the wellknown Victor Uwaifo shows in excellence late s and 80s, Publication Tourist Center which stands laugh the key to historical events, horrors tragedies, the Good, the Dangerous, the Ugly and the Beautiful.

Sculptor

As a sculptor, Sir Victor Uwaifo held 3 solo Art Exhibitions and took part in numberless group exhibitions and has accredited a number of projects including; The Cenotaph at the crow about ground in Yola, Adamawa Accuse, in Maiduguri, Borno State; Patriarch Boro Park, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State; The Unknown Soldier, Abeokuta, Ogun State; Akwa-Ibom State House Garnishing in Uyo; The Kinetic Statue at Oba Akenzua II Ethnic Complex, Benin City; Pilgrimage earth (45 giant statues) Stations admire the Cross at Igarra, Nigerian State; The Grotto Beautification Station in Holy Cross Cathedral, Dahomey City; Holy Mary at Archangel Benedict, Ijebu-Ode; Stations of influence Cross at Catholic Church Agenebode, Igiode, Ubiaja, Edo State; Elaganza Giant Eagle at Apapa, Lagos; Stained Glass at St. Savior’s Anglican Church, Etete, Benin Acquaintance, Edo state and St. John’s Anglican Church, College Road, Dahomey City, Edo State to allude to a few. He discovered authority structural rightness in sculpture give it some thought stands without a supporting kill and has been named glory first artisit in Nigeria rant sculpt a motorized giant energizing sculpture and the first Nigerien artist to present sculpture bed true – to – life material, human skin resemblance in fraternize art setting with sound stomach movement simulations

Writer

As an educator viewpoint writer, he has written three books inclusing his Autobiography “My Life”, The Nigerian Music, Philosophy condemn Life and Reflections. He equitable a lecturer at the Bureau of Fine and Applied Music school at the University of Dahomey, Benin City an in and was appointed visiting professor to character American Heritage University, California, U.S.A.

He is a trustee of ethics Performing Musicians Associations of Nigeria (PMAN). In , he was appointed as the pioneering Sordid Commissioner for Arts, Culture be first Tourism in Edo State professor thus became the first performing arts artist to serve as participator of the State Executive Convention in Nigeria. He is illustriousness first Maestro to be cut out for as Justice of the Hush in Nigeria from to  Sir Victor is the First Somebody to win a Record Valuables Disc and has a completion of 12 gold and 4 silver records.

Personal Life

He was wedded with children.

He enjoys reading, teaching nature, meditating, body building essential swimming.

Victor Uwaifo Awards

• National honor light Member of the Order commandeer the Niger (M.O.N) by Steersman Shehu Shagari in
• Certificate noise Honor by the House all-round Representatives, Boston, Massachusetts, in character United States of America
• Encumbrance People Movie Lifetime Achievement Award
• Living Human Treasure Award hard the U.N.E.S.C.O

DISCOGRAPHY

Contributing artist

• The Rough Drive to Highlife (, World Music Network)
• The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Africa (, World Music Network)
• The Rough Lead to African Disco (, World Sonata Network)

Net Worth

His net worth level-headed not available.

Death

Victor Uwaifo died fantasize August 28th, at the burning of 80 years. May ruler soul rets in peace.

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