Colleagues and friends mourn gospel singer Kefee

 

 Friends and associates of Nigerian music act, Kefee Obareke, otherwise called Kefee, are mourning over the passing away of the gospel musician.

Confirming the news of her death Mr. Oluwale Oni, a friend to the singer’s host in America, said the husband of the Branama crooner, Teddy Esosa, was devastated by the incident.

Oni, who said he had been in touch with family members of the deceased,  said Esosa was in serious mourning.

The late singer had been admitted in a Las Vegas hospital, United States, after slipping from the stairs of a plane and going into coma.

Her husband and colleagues in the entertainment industry have for weeks been asking her fans to pray for her recovery.

Oni said that Kefee died on Friday at about 4 am Nigerian time.

He said in a telephone conversation: “My friend stays in Chicago. Whenever Kefee is in Chicago, she stays in her house. She has been checking on her in the hospital. They attend the same church in America. So when she died at about 4am on Friday, she called to tell me.

“It was actually about midnight there when she called me, but she said that she couldn’t sleep. That is all I know.”

News of Kefee’s death has since gone viral, with colleagues and fans displaying her photographs on various social media platforms.

Equally devastated by the news, gospel music artiste, I have met her several times. We have been on stage together several times. We interacted as colleagues. I won’t say that we were very close, but we knew each other well.

“I will miss her drive. She seems to me like a very determined woman who had been through so much and yet kept her faith in God. For me, that is one of the biggest testimonies that one can have.

“She kept her focus on God in spite of whatever life threw at her. In her, I admired the drive to succeed and the drive to keep at what she was doing and to keep on expanding her frontiers and enlarging her territory.”

While the singer was rumoured to be pregnant and suffered pre-eclampsiaher, her UK Manager, Adeline Adelicious Adebayo, refuted the rumour in an official statement.

Adebayo said: “On behalf of the family… it is with great sadness but grateful hearts that we announce the passing to glory, due to lungs failure this morning, of our God’s mouthpiece, chorus leader, daughter, wife, sister, friend Kefee Branama Queen … May her beautiful, gentle and precious soul rest in perfect peace.

“In contrast to earlier rumours and stories in circulation, Its clearly state that Kefee wasn’t six months pregnant and neither did she have pre-eclampsia.”