How about we thrill you with Onyeka Onwenu’s ‘Keredim’, ‘Iyogogo’ this week on Godfrey Times Love Thursday?

As a child in Nigeria in the good old days, music, glorious music, is one of the beautiful things that made my childhood a very outstanding adventure. My parents knew and loved great songs from very talented singers across the country. The tribe didn’t matter at all. They played these songs repeatedly, thinking it was a delight to just them alone—little did they know. Smiles.

These are songs that opens the door of requests, things you would not dare to ask for, when those songs are not on, you will ask because you can tell that great mood they are in, is a window of opportunity, use it before it is gone. Chei!

Now, as a young man in the United States of America, I look back to explore these moments of the past with my mind when I am taking a walk or bringing some adages to my heart for an attitudinal check.

One of these Nigerian singers is the iconic musician, so loved and revered as the ‘Elegant Stallion’, is Onyeka Onwenu. She passed away on Tuesday, July 30.

This was a woman whose music inspired generations of Nigerians. Her music was more than the echelons of good. Onyeka Onwenu was a person who made me to love the Igbo language.

A Nigerian in Europe in a chat with Godfrey Times Love Thursday shared his reaction to the news of her passing, saying “her impact will live beyond her death. She will never die. This is just her body. Her work that she did will live on. She deserves a state’s burial from the federal government of Nigeria.”

Onwenu, who turned folk songs into Pop-feel thrill with her unique strength, shared how she would like to be buried in an opinion-piece published on TheCable on July 27, 2021.

This week on Godfrey Times Love Thursday (GTLT), we are featuring Onwenu’s ‘Keredim’ and ‘Iyogogo’, her great classic love songs that thrilled our parents and many Nigerians.