He even used Sunny Ade as his sparing partner once a while. In between studies and rehearsals with Kola Ogunmola Theatre Group, which he joined as a musician, Orlando still took time out to hone his boxing skills. “I used to watch my dad play, and I also listened to my mother and grandmother sing folk songs, so the interest just developed,” he said.įor Owoh, however, it took determination and zeal to snap out of his dad’s hands as he never wanted any of his sons to sing. Oladipo Stephen Owomoyela, bowed out of this world about the time his man, Obama, emerged victorious at the US presidential election that day.īorn to a carpenter in Osogbo 76 years ago, Orlando loved music as his family was filled with musicians. It is not yet known whether he ever met the Kenyan-American during his musical tours of US, but family members said he even prayed for the success of Obama in the elections on November 4, 2008.Ĭall it premonition, it’s so heart-wrenching that Kennery music exponent, another true African, Dr. Unfortunately, he didn’t live to see the emergence of his most preferred candidate as the first blackman ever to be elected as president of the world’s most successful democracy, the United States of America.
For several weeks, late Orlando Owoh monitored progress reports on the man he confirmed to Admiral Dele Abiodun that he would have voted for it he was an American, Barack Obama.
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