{"id":35257,"date":"2024-06-19T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=35257"},"modified":"2024-06-19T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T10:55:15","slug":"music-legend-femi-esho-passes-away-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/19\/music-legend-femi-esho-passes-away-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Legend Femi Esho Passes Away at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 juice:w-full juice:items-end overflow-x-auto gap-2\" dir=\"auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"8c043f57-545c-4ace-83c6-ef74376e81ba\">\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 juice:empty:hidden juice:first:pt-[3px]\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light\">\n<p><em><strong>By Cynthia Abah<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of Evergreen Musical Company, Chief Femi Esho, has died at the age of 77 after a brief illness. His family confirmed his passing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Esho, affectionately known as Baba Esho or Baba Musician, was a prominent figure in the Nigerian music industry. He founded the Evergreen Music Heritage Foundation and mentored many in the Highlife music scene.<\/p>\n<p>Until his death, Baba Esho played a crucial role in preserving and promoting various Nigerian music genres, including Highlife, Juju, Sakara, Apala, and Afrobeat.<\/p>\n<p>Burial arrangements will be announced by his family soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cynthia Abah The Chairman of Evergreen Musical Company, Chief Femi Esho, has died at the age of 77 after a brief illness. His family confirmed his passing on Monday. Esho, affectionately known as Baba Esho or Baba Musician, was a prominent figure in the Nigerian music industry. He founded the Evergreen Music Heritage Foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":35259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35260,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions\/35260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}