Sir Victor Uwaifo – Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth, Career, & More

Sir Victor Uwaifo – Biography, Age, Wife, Family, Net Worth, Career, & More

On this Page, is a comprehensive and updated biodata of Sir Victor Uwaifo. His Family, career, net worth and achievements.

 Biography

Sir Victor Uwaifo (MON) was born on 1 March 1941 and died 28 August 2021 was a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor, University lecturer, music legend, and the first Honorable Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Nigeria.

Uwaifo was the winner of the first gold disc in Africa (Joromi) released in 1965 and seven other gold discs in Guitar boy, Arabade, Ekassa series and Akwete music. He recorded under the name Victor Uwaifo and His TItibitis.

Also, He is recognized as the most educated performing music legend, musical instrument inventor, artist, worldwide with a B.A. Honours (first-class valedictorian), Masters degree and PhD in Architectural Sculpture, (University of Benin, Nigeria).

Victor Uwaifo Wiki, Profile

Age

Victor Uwaifo is 80 years old.

Education, Early Life

He fell in love with music while listening to gramophone records of Spanish and Latin American musicians and at age 12, was already a very good guitar player.

Sir Victor Uwaifo attended Western Boys High School and St. Gregory’s College, Lagos obtaining a National Art Diploma, Distinction from Yaba College of Technology, Lagos where he won the Lintas scholarship as the best student before going on to the University of Benin where he graduated with a First Class degree in Fine and Applied Arts and then later obtaining a Master’s Degree in Sculpture from the same school.

On graduation, Sir Victor took got a job with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) where he soon became Assistant Head of the Department of Graphics.

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 Career

Sir Victor’s career started while he was still at school, playing for Victor Olaiya’s all-stars band in Lagos on a contract basis and leading the school band. He soon formed his own band, the Melody Maestros while working with the NTA, recording songs like “Oko no mu me”, “Police and Akugbe” among others between 1960 and 1965.

In 1965, he signed up with Philips (West Africa) label and succeeded in releasing hits like “Guitar Boy”, “Joromi” and “Siwo-Siwo”. These songs were very popular in Nigeria and some other parts of Africa at the time. Between 1965 and 1968, he developed the Akwete rhythm sound. In 1969, he launched a new beat called “Shadow” accompanied by a new dance also called “shadow”, which was a mixture of Akwete and twist. He released another single, “Mami Water” which he claims was inspired by an encounter with a “Mami water” (Mermaid) while he was lounging on Bar Beach, Lagos.

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Sir Victor Uwaifo invented the double-neck “magic guitar” with 18 strings which he rotates 360 degrees at the speed of sound. As he got older, he started experimenting with fusing Highlife and Hip hop in his album “Colabo” in 2012 where he featured younger Nigerian musicians like Tuface Idibia, Dare Art Alade, Henry Sax, Tobi Adegoke, Kunle Ayo and Ekhator Osas. He plays the guitar not just with his fingers but also with his jaw, his toes, his teeth, from behind his neck and back

The Biography Of Sir Victor Uwaifo

Sir Victor Uwaifo and his band had several national and international performance tours at Abidjan, Ghana, Europe, the United States of America, Japan and the former Soviet Union. He represented Nigeria at the Black Art Festival in Algiers in 1969 and at the African Common Wealth Festival, London in 1973. He has released over a hundred records so much that it has been said that you can play his record nonstop for a month.

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As a businessman and entrepreneur, Sir Victor Uwaifo founded Joromi Hotel in Benin City, and also a television and recording studio where he produced the famous Victor Uwaifo shows in the late 1970s and 80s, Revelation Tourist Center which stands as the key to historical events, horrors tragedies, the Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Beautiful.

As a sculptor, Sir Victor Uwaifo held 3 solo Art Exhibitions and took part in many group exhibitions and has commissioned a number of projects including; The Cenotaph at the parade ground in Yola, Adamawa State, in Maiduguri, Borno State; Isaac Boro Park, Port-Harcourt, Rivers State; The Unknown Soldier, Abeokuta, Ogun State; Akwa-Ibom State House Beautification in Uyo;

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The Kinetic Sculpture at Oba Akenzua II Cultural Complex, Benin City; Pilgrimage ground (45 giant statues) Stations of the Cross at Igarra, Edo State; The Grotto Beautification Stations in Holy Cross Cathedral, Benin City; Holy Mary at Saint Benedict, Ijebu-Ode; Stations of the Cross at Catholic Church Agenebode, Igiode, Ubiaja, Edo State; Elaganza Giant Eagle at Apapa, Lagos; Stained Glass at St. Savior’s Anglican Church, Etete, Benin City, Edo state and

The Biography Of Sir Victor Uwaifo

St. John’s Anglican Church, College Road, Benin City, Edo State to mention a few. He discovered the structural rightness in sculpture that stands without a supporting base and has been named the first artist in Nigeria to sculpt a motorized giant kinetic sculpture and the first Nigerian artist to present sculpture in true–to–life material, human skin resemblance in tourism art setting with sound and movement simulations

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As an educator and writer, he has written four books including his autobiography “My Life”, The Nigerian Music, Philosophy of Life and Reflections. He is a lecturer at the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Benin, Benin City and in 2009 and was appointed visiting professor to the American Heritage University, California, U.S.A.

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He is a trustee of the Performing Musicians Associations of Nigeria (PMAN).

The Biography Of Sir Victor Uwaifo

In 2001, he was appointed as the pioneering Honorable Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Edo State and thus became the first performing artist to serve as a member of the State Executive Council in Nigeria. He is the first Maestro to be appointed as Justice of the Peace in Nigeria from 2000 to 2003. Sir Victor is the First African to win a Record Gold Disc and has a total of 12 gold and 4 silver records.

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 Personal Life

He is married to Princess Osaretin Uwaifo and blessed with children.

He enjoys reading, studying nature, meditating, bodybuilding and swimming.

Victor Uwaifo Net Worth

Victor Uwaifo’s net worth or net income is estimated to be $1 million – $10 million dollars. He has made such an amount of wealth from his primary career as a Musician.

Victor Uwaifo Death

Legendary singer and guitarist, prof. Sir Victor Uwaifo is dead. A close source to the family confirmed his death on Saturday. The source said he died after a brief illness.