Music legend, Evangelist Ebenezer Obey-Fabiyi, has declared that he is alive, putting an end to death rumours making rounds on social media.
According to Tribune Online, the music icon said he is alive, hale and hearty, adding that;
The public and my fans at large should disregard the news. I dey kampe and there is nothing wrong with me. I am surprised with the rumour too and I don’t know where it came from. I have been receiving several calls and I want to tell people not to express worry about the rumour because I am fine and active.
Since the 1960s, Ebenezer Obey has been one of the most popular, prolific, and influential musicians in Nigeria, releasing over fifty albums, developing the juju genre of music.
He began his professional career in the mid-1950s after moving to Lagos. After tutelage under the band of late singer Fatai Rolling-Dollar, he formed a band called The International Brothers in 1964, playing a slow and music composed of layered guitars and Yoruba percussion sounds (highlife–jùjú fusion).
The band later metamorphosed into Inter-Reformers in the early-1970s, with a long list of Juju album hits on the West African Decca musical label.
As is the characteristic of Nigerian Yoruba social-circle music and religious traditionalist, Obey and their Inter-Reformers band excel in praise-singing for rich Nigerian socialites and business tycoons.
The Chief Commander, as he is fondly called by fans, is also renowned for Christian spiritual themes in his music and has since the early-1990s retired into gospel music ministry and became a cleric.
Obey married Juliana Olaide Olufade in 1963, who died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on 23 August 2011, aged 67.
They are blessed with several children and grand children.
