BREAKING: Veteran Fuji Musician, Iyanda Sawaba Is Dead
A Veteran Fuji Musician, Alhaji Iyanda Sawaba popularly known as Easy Sawaba is dead. He died this morning in an undisclosed hospital. He was a native of Ile Aperin in Orita- Aperin area of Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria.
Sawaba who was born in Ghana on, 11 November 1951 has had a major career in the Fuji Music industry, in the 1970s and 1980s, he was a great force to reckon in the industry.
He became more popular with his leading role among the then younger generation of Fuji musicians who supported the late Fuji icon, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister when the supremacy rivalry between the former and General Kollington Ayinla was red hot. After the ‘Ceasefire’, he was signed on the stable of the Keji Okunowo-led defunct Sony Music in 1992 where he released another successful album titled Message as produced by Laolu Akins.
In 2018 at 67, his latest album titled “Correction” was released and is still enjoying appreciable patronage home and abroad.
