GOSPEL singer, Sammie Okposo, was reported dead today.
The ‘Wellu Wellu’ crooner allegedly slumped and died aged 51.
Here are 10 facts about the late singer.
• He was born on May 30, 1971 in Delta State.
• The multiple award-winning artist started music in his early when he was a member of his local church where he played the piano for the choir at 10.
• Okposo was also a music producer, psalmist and CEO of Zamar Entertainment.
• He released his first album Addicted in 2004.
• His most recent album, The Statement (2018) was produced by the Grammy-winning Kevin Bond.
• In 1995, he joined Nollywood as a soundtrack producer and eventually ventured into music producing.
• He was Globacom ambassador, United Nations Peace Ambassador and had a couple of other honours to his name.
• Okposo made headlines in January 2022 when he apologised to his wife, Ozioma on his verified Instagram page for cheating on her with lady known also as African Doll in the United States of America (USA) for an incident that occurred in 2021. She accused him of impregnating and abandoning her.
• Following the incident, the singer decided to stay away from ministry for a while to go back in his spiritual steps before rejoining it after a few months.
• In May, the veteran singer escaped death by the whiskers in a car accident while driving on third mainland bridge in Lagos but Okposo said he “was saved from the hands of the devil and his cohorts.”
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