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| late Nelly Uchendu. |
Nelly Uchendu MON, born in 1950 and passed on in 2005 was a 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗴𝗯𝗼 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗻, whose song of 1976 "𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗡𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶" shot her to prominence with Six Albums to her credid and on April 12, 2005, she died of Cancer in an Enugu hospital.
She
was born in 1950 in Umuchu, a town in Aguata Local government area of Anambra
State, Eastern Region, Uchendu started singing at an early age.
She
later joined Professor Sonny Oti's music group under which she flourished using
her vocals and in 1976, her music career shot to limelight following the
release of the Homzy Sounds,-produced classic titled "Love Nwantiti"
off her own debut LP composition, Love Nwantiti; before she went on to release
"Waka", "Aka Bu Eze" and "Mama Hausa" which
further established her in the Nigeria music industry.
Her
music career saw her record in several genres of music including Igbo highlife,
pop and gospel music which she did in the later part of her career.
Nelly
Uchendu's career also saw her perform outside Nigeria, most notably performing
in London, England alongside Sir Warrior and his Oriental Brothers during the
1980s.
In
1986, Uchendu appeared as Ikemefuna's mother in a Nigerian Television
Authority, NTA Network's televised version of Things Fall Apart, and later as
Tony's mother in the 1994 Nollywood movie Nneka the Pretty Serpent. Both were
singing roles, as some of her works includes..
Love
Nwantiti (1976), Aka Bu Eze (1977), Mama Awusa (1978), I Believe (1979), Ogadili
Gi Nma (1982)
Make
a New Nigeria (1988), Ezigbo Dim (1982), Nye ya ekele(1995), Nna cheta m(1995).
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