{"id":8965,"date":"2022-06-11T21:27:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8965"},"modified":"2022-06-11T21:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T21:27:40","slug":"highlife-musician-osayomore-joseph-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=8965","title":{"rendered":"Highlife Musician, Osayomore Joseph, Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Popular Highlife musician, Amb Osayomore Joseph, is dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joseph, an indigene of Edo State, passed away on Saturday, June 11, 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Until his death, he was a prolific singer and one of Edo State\u2019s prominent sons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joseph was born in Ugha village near Benin City, Edo State Nigeria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He is one of the early pioneers of African popular Highlife music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His educational, anti-corruption and government critical lyrics sung in Edo but also in pidgin English reached a wide audience worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Performing Musician Association of Nigeria, Edo State chapter, expressed sadness over the death of the iconic musician.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Comrade Willy Eghe-Nova, who is PMAN\u2019s Administrator\/Governor in Edo in a press releases said, \u201cSadly, PMAN on Saturday, June 11, 2022, lost a great member and music legend, Ambassador Osayomore Joseph.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cMay his creative soul rest in peace,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Highlife musician, Amb Osayomore Joseph, is dead. Joseph, an indigene of Edo State, passed away on Saturday, June 11, 2022. Until his death, he was a prolific singer and one of Edo State\u2019s prominent sons. Joseph was born in Ugha village near Benin City, Edo State Nigeria. He is one of the early pioneers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[472,5187,5188],"class_list":["post-8965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dead","tag-highlife-musician","tag-osayomore-joseph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965"}],"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=8965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8967,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8965\/revisions\/8967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}