Veteran musician, Onyeka Onwenu fondly called the elegant stallion is a woman of many parts.
From being a singer, actress, politician and journalist, Onwenu has her hands in many pies.
In a recent virtual interview, the ‘One Love’ crooner urged female artistes to do more than shaking their bums and work towards becoming legacy artistes.
“Be careful of what you live for posterity. If you can’t give your best, don’t step out because what you recorded is always going to be there for long, so you got to give it the very best. Center your artistry around something that will last with meaning, not just shaking bumbum and it’s just the women that are always shaking it, the men don’t shake anything. Women are worth more than shaking their bumbum. Enough of the bumbum”.
Asked if her family supported her when she got married to a Yoruba Muslim, she said: “Not at all. My family kind of knew that I am an independent-minded person. I will do whatever I wanted to do in terms of whomever I fell in love with. He was a Muslim before we got married and there was no objection to that. My children are proudly Yoruba and Igbo, so if you say something bad about the two tribes, they’ll query you and that is the attitude we should all have”.
