{"id":81827,"date":"2026-01-18T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81827"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:34:49","slug":"afrobeats-singer-destiny-boy-reportedly-dies-at-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/afrobeats-singer-destiny-boy-reportedly-dies-at-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Afrobeats Singer Destiny Boy Reportedly Dies at 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afrobeats artist Afeez Adeshina, popularly known as Destiny Boy, has reportedly died at the age of 22, sparking shock and grief across the music community.<\/p>\n<p>The news surfaced on Sunday, January 18, 2026, after it was shared online by Instagram investigative journalist Temilola Sobola.<\/p>\n<p>However, the singer\u2019s family and official representatives are yet to confirm the report or disclose the cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 2004, Destiny Boy rose to fame with his youthful Afrobeats sound and quickly built a loyal fan base.<\/p>\n<p>His reported death has triggered an outpouring of tributes on social media, with fans mourning the loss of a young talent widely seen as having a promising future.<\/p>\n<p>Further details are expected as the story develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith Afrobeats artist Afeez Adeshina, popularly known as Destiny Boy, has reportedly died at the age of 22, sparking shock and grief across the music community. The news surfaced on Sunday, January 18, 2026, after it was shared online by Instagram investigative journalist Temilola Sobola. However, the singer\u2019s family and official representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81827","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81829,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81827\/revisions\/81829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}