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<p><em>What Sonny Okosun told me before he died is the focus of this exclusive interview Faith Onokhua, a musician, granted <strong><a href="https://openlife.ng/">OpenLife Nigeria</a></strong> as part of the 13th anniversary of late Sonny Okosun who was best known as the leader of the Ozzidi band, named after a renowned Ijaw river god. </em><em>Okosun died at 61 on 24 May 2008 at Howard University Hospital, Washington DC. His musical styles included reggae, highlife, Afro-funk, and gospel, among others</em></p>
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<p><strong>How are you related to the late Sonny Okosun who died 13 years ago?</strong></p>
<p>Not biological father, he&#8217;s like an adopted father to me, I lived with him and I worked with him as his backup singer in Ozziddi band. He called me his daughter and I called him father till death</p>
<p><strong>You are involved in music promoting the late Sonny Okosun. Why are you keeping his memory alive?</strong></p>
<p>I am keeping his memory alive because he asked me to.<br />
I still remember few days before he flew back to America, he said to me ‘Do you know I&#8217;m going back to America in two days time?’ And I said yes, because of so many check-up after the operation.<br />
He then said follow me and I followed him to his studio where he&#8217;s buried.</p>
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<p>That was where he asked me to promise him that this mantle will not drop and I started crying.<br />
He asked me to stop and he prayed for me and gave me Psalm 23 and said ‘This will guide your life.’<br />
I knew there was a transfer of grace which I can&#8217;t be talking about here.<br />
Oh my God! Tears are running down my eyes as I&#8217;m saying this.<br />
I don&#8217;t think it was even up to three weeks he went back to America that he died.<br />
So, I own it as a responsibility to pass his messages and legacies to other generations.<br />
I&#8217;m just trying to do his last wish which he mandated me to keep up with the music.</p>
<p><strong>How did you meet him?</strong></p>
<p>I first had a dream about him singing on stage and I was backing him up.<br />
I told my brother and one of my cousins.<br />
They were laughing and calling me Josephine the dreamer. I was very young and was not doing music professionally.<br />
As of that time, I had neither known Lagos nor met with him.<br />
Years later, I moved to Lagos for the usual search for greener pastures.<br />
I met a friend of mine that asked me to accompany her to a saloon and it happened to be a Sunkech Saloon owed by Sonny Okosun&#8217;s late wife.</p>
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<p>After the hair do, I went inside the compound and I met him sitting in the compound and I greeted him. He responded as if I had been with him for years.<br />
He asked me if I sing. I told him yes that I sing and I love music but I&#8217;m not doing it professionally.<br />
He said you are free to come around at anytime.<br />
From there, I became a friend and member of the family. When he opened his church, I became a chorister in his church from there he trained me professionally to work with the <a href="https://www.vanguardngr.com/">Ozziddi Band</a> as a back up singer.<br />
I worked with him till he died.</p>
<p><strong>Point out three fantastic things about him?</strong></p>
<p>He was a father, a mentor and a leader to all that came around him.</p>
<p><strong>What are your musical or entertainment goals?</strong></p>
<p>My musical goals are to continue with the legacies of Sonny Okosun as a father and a mentor. I also want to impact my generation with my songs and messages</p>
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