{"id":17637,"date":"2024-02-05T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17637"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:55:10","slug":"veteran-actor-jimi-solanke-dies-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17637","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Actor Jimi Solanke Dies At 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">A veteran actor, and folk singer, Jimi Solanke, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The legendary poet and playwright died on Monday at the age of 81.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He was said to have died while being rushed from his country home at Ipara Remo in Remo North Local Government Area of Ogun State to Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilisan when he succumbed to the cold hand of death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chief Solanke was said to have been in and out of hospital from December until he died on Monday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hon Dickson Awolaja representing Remo North State Constituency at the state Assembly confirmed the exit of the highly gifted artiste to our Correspondent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hon Awolaja said \u201cI got wind of the demise of Pa Jimi Solanke not long ago. His death is no doubt another big loss to us in Remo North and Ogun State as a whole given his worthy contributions to the development of our dear nation. May his soul rest in peace\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He is known for Kongi\u2019s Harvest, Sango, Shadow Parties, and many more. He is also referred to\u00a0as\u00a0Uncle\u00a0Jimi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran actor, and folk singer, Jimi Solanke, is dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[192,8430,4730],"class_list":["post-17637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dies","tag-jimi-solanke","tag-veteran-actor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17639,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17637\/revisions\/17639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}