Majek Fashek Bounces Back

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Nigerian born Reggae icon, Majekodunmi-Fasheke, popularly known as โ€˜the Rainmakerโ€™ has staged a comeback to the Nigerian music clan after 30 years of missing in action in the industry, with a new single titled โ€œNo More Sorrowโ€ featuring Nigerian hip hop-idle, Tu Face Idibia.

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Heralding his comeback to the music stage are few public performances lately, one of the most recent being at the monthly Afro politan Vibes concert and studio appearances to record a remix of his 1990s hit song โ€œHoly Spirit fromย  the 1991 โ€œSpirit of Loveโ€ Album. The song is now titled โ€œNo More Sorrowโ€ featuring the music legend Tu Face Idibia.
Tuface who was seemingly ecstatic about the opportunity, said: โ€œItโ€™s an honour to collaborate with one of Africaโ€™s greatest musicians of all times to go from admiring him from a distance to actually having the opportunity to record with him and contribute to his legacy is something I cherishโ€.
The song โ€˜No More Sorrowโ€™ talks about attaining Utopia, describing a perfect world void of killings sorrow and war, the song is full of Biblical references.
Majek Fashek as he is also known is said to have an untouchable legacy in the Reggae music genre in Nigeria. His contributions to the music industry has remained relevant even as he struggles and falls in other areas. After ruling the reggae world in the country in the nineties, his public image was overtaken by a focus on his drug use and subsequent destitution.
The Rainmaker attracted international attention in 1987 when his self penned tune โ€œSend Down The Rainโ€ from his solo debute album, โ€œPrisoner of Conscienceโ€ which sold more than 200,000 copies in Nigeria alone.
Reports have it that while he was performing his song โ€œSend Down The Rainโ€ before a thirsty crowd at a time when drought visited some parts of the country, he saw that the mammoth crowd were yearning for at least a few drops of water. Although their yearnings were true, not one of them imagined the possibility of rain.
However, upon his observation, Majekย  Fashek started with the following Lyrics, โ€œThe sky looks misty and cloudy, it looks like the rain gonna fall todayโ€ฆโ€, just like the declaration of Prophet Elijah, the cloud assembled, thunder cracked and rain watered the barten ground. Instantly, he was seen as a miracle worker as the crowd regarded the event as the โ€˜mystery of the Rainmakerโ€™.

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