William Onyeabor, a mysterious funk musician from Nigeria who became a cult figure for his self-recorded albums, has died at 70 As far as cultishly adored funk musicians from Africa go, William ...

It is with incredibly heavy hearts that we have to announce that the great Nigerian business leader and mythic music pioneer William Onyeabor has passed away at the age of 70. He died peacefully in ...

The visionary funk musician has died at age 70. From the mid-70s to the mid-80s, Onyeabor recorded nine albums. All of them had spectacularly good titles, like Great Lover (1981), Hypertension (1982), ...

William Onyeabor, the Nigerian funk artist who, after self-releasing a wellspring of albums from 1977 to 1985, achieved worldwide acclaim nearly 30 years after he permanently left the music industry, ...

Regardless of the infinitely confounding narrative behind Nigerian music producer and international man of mystery William Onyeabor (or perhaps even because of it) KCRW and David Byrne’s indelible ...

Legendary Nigerian musician William Onyeabor deserves your attention. Depending on just how nerdy your musi-loving friends are, there's a chance your social feeds have been full of talk about William ...

One of last year’s coolest reissues was Who Is William Onyeabor? which collected many of the cult Nigerian funk singer and synthesizer pioneer William Onyeabor‘s best tracks. For more on who he is, ...

William Onyeabor, the mysterious, mythic Nigerian synth-funk pioneer, died in his sleep Tuesday morning, as confirmed in a touching, lengthy statement from Luaka Bop. David Byrne, who helped found the ...

The pioneering electro/synth/soul artist William Onyeabor passed away in his sleep on Monday at the age of 70. Onyeabor was a businessman based in Enugu (Southeastern Nigeria) who began releasing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. William Onyeabor, the elusive and influential Nigerian musician who pioneered a stuttering style of electronic funk during the ...