Stephen Osita Osadebe

Born in March 1936 in Atani, near the Igbo trading city of Onitsha, Nigeria. Died in the US at the age of 73 on the 11th of May, 2007. Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe started his musical career in the 1950's and his recording career towards the end of that decade. He is one of the few bandleaders from the 1960s' "Golden Age" of Nigerian danceband highlife who remained active until shortly before his death in 2007.