A popular veteran fuji musician, Alhaji Isiaka Iyanda Sawaba popularly known as Easy Sawaba is dead.
The Ibadan-born musician, aged 70, died at an undisclosed hospital where he was receiving treatment. He collapsed a few days ago.
Sawaba, who hailed from Ile Aperin, Orita-Aperin in Ibadan, was born in the old Gold Coast presently Ghana in the early ’50s.
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He was so much influenced by the Fuji Doctor late Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister that he decided to match Barry Wonder Fuji’s tone.
Alhaji Iyanda Sawaba the Pata Olokun Exponent had a breakthrough in fuji music in the ’70s and ’80s. As a recording Artist, Alhaji Iyanda Sawaba has waxed over twenty albums.
