Sad as Music meastro, sculptor, and philosopher, Prof. Victor Efosa Uwaifo has passed on at the age of 80.
Though details of his death were sketchy as at press time, the music icon, whose tracks ‘Joromi’ and ‘Mammy Water’ were hits till his demise, was a multi-instrumentalist, great lyricist, melody maker, and a renowned virtual artist.
One of his children, Uwaifo Peter de Rock, had broken the news of the demise of the Professor of Visual Arts, University of Benin (UNIBEN) on his Facebook page on Saturday evening.
While Peter did not disclose the cause of the death of his father, he waxed elegy at the passing of the music star.
Meanwhile the family said the great singer didn’t die of Covid-19