By the middle of the 1950s, highlife music had become a genre in Eastern Nigeria and took a storm in the region and beyond. Soon after, Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, father of Okwuchukwu Osadebe (fondly called Okwy), became a renowned entertainer who appealed to his people and culture with a distinctive and entrancing musical wave. … Continue reading Nigerian Okwy Osadebe preserves half a century of family’s legendary Highlife music