Veteran Highlife Musician Victor Olaiya Dies

A veteran highlife musician, Victor Olaiya is dead, Nigeria’s burgeoning online news platform, NewsOne Nigeria reports.

NewsOne Nigeria reports that Victor Olaiya died at age eighty-nine (89), Bimbo Esho, the Managing Director of Evergreen Music Company Limited said.

This online news platform understands that the veteran highlife musician died on Wednesday, February 12, at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial city.

A gifted trumpeter, Victor Olaiya rose to global fame in the 1950s and 1960s through his blend of gripping highlife sound.

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