{"id":19174,"date":"2018-06-10T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19174"},"modified":"2018-06-10T19:01:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T19:01:20","slug":"reggae-icon-ras-kimono60-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=19174","title":{"rendered":"REGGAE ICON RAS KIMONO(60) PASSES ON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Delta Onicha Olona born Legendary musician, Ukeleke Onyubuya aka Ras Kimono is dead. He passed on today Sunday morning in Lagos, age 60<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A close family source revealed that the reggae musician was rushed to a hospital in Ikoyi after he slumped on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Also confirming the death, a factional Chairman of the Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON), Tony Okoroji said he had visited the legendary reggae musician in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=16399&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Okoroji, who said he shook hands with Ras Kimono, lamented, \u201cThis is a terrible loss to the music industry\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOSON deeply regrets to announce the passing on of a frontline member of our board \u2013 great African and great musician, the reggae toaster, the great Ras Kimono Onwubuya,\u201d he added in a text.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, President of the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria (PMAN), Mr Pretty Okafor, said he was shocked when he received the news that the reggae artiste had died.<\/p>\n<p>Ras Kimono rose to stardom after the release of his debut album \u2018Under Pressure\u2019 in the late \u201880s.<\/p>\n<p>His style of music was significantly influenced by the hardship he experienced in his early life.<\/p>\n<p>The late reggae music icon won several awards including the Nigeria Music Awards and Fame Music Awards among others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19048\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff.jpg 1080w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-300x86.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-768x219.jpg 768w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sheriff-1024x292.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Delta Onicha Olona born Legendary musician, Ukeleke Onyubuya aka Ras Kimono is dead. He passed on today Sunday morning in Lagos, age 60 A close family source revealed that the reggae musician was rushed to a hospital in Ikoyi after he slumped on Saturday. Also confirming the death, a factional Chairman of the Copyright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[4750],"class_list":["post-19174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ras-kimono"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ras-kimono.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-4Zg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19176,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions\/19176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}