By Bimbo Esho
Strong, Resilient, Creative, Humorous, Friendly, Charming are words I like to use to describe Queen Halimat Omowura one of the heir apparent of Egun Mogaji.
My very first encounter with Queen Halimat as she is fondly called was when a friend sent her music video to me. I was mesmerised to see how a lady fitted so well into her fathers musical shoe and bridging a gap between yesteryears music and todays contemporary sound.
Few days later I couldn’t help but contacted Queen Halimat to be part of an event our Company Evergreen Musical Company was putting together in partnership with LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT ( Ariya Eko) in celebration of forgotten music icons in Nigeria.
Halimat whose humility is second to none accepted our invitation to be part of the celebration and she graced the occasion with her band.
She mesmerised the audience with some of her songs and her fathers popular Evergreen songs. It was a day to remember .
Subsequently when she visited us we spoke about her fathers 41 years remembrance, her album launch , etc . I had no doubt in my heart that considering Halimat’s dodgedness and her drive for success the event she was putting together will be magnanimous.
Come 26th of August , Queen Halimat Ayinla Omowura will be setting the whole of Abeokuta agog as Egun Mogaji’s spirt will be resurrecting after 41 years since his death . She will also be releasing a new album she calls Apala Extraordinary which is no doubt an hybrid of Apala music infused with more contemporary musical instruments. In her bid to get Apala music to appeal to a larger contemporary music audience she is of the convinction that with her latest album Apala music will soon be going international.
