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Onyeka Onwenu
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Nigerian actress, singer and politician
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- My father's daughter
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Film & TV
Onyeka Onwenu is a Nigerian singer and songwriter, actress, human rights and social activist, journalist, and politician.
Known for
- To Adaego with Love — Mama Ezekwe2025
- My Blood2022
- Foreigner's God2022
- Lionheart — Abigail2018
- God Calling2018
- Half of a Yellow Sun — Mama2013
- Women's Cot — Adanma2005
- Rising Moon2005
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6,682
- Total plays
- 29,579
Tags
nigeriapopRockPopafricanigerian
One of Nigeria's first ladies of song, Onyeka has been singing Gospel and and many other styles of music in Nigeria since the 1970s. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Onyeka+Onwenu">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of death
- Reddington Hospital Lagos
- Educated at
- The New School
- Political party
- Peoples Democratic Party
- Languages spoken
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Native language
- Igbo
- Religion
- Christianity
- Notable work
- Rising Moon
- Hair colour
- black hair
- Industry
- film industry
- Image
- Onyeka Onwenu.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
- Residence
- Lagos
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- date of birth
- 1952-01-31
- name in native language
- Onyeka Onwenu
- start of work period
- 1984-00-00
- Commons category
- Onyeka Onwenu
- date of death
- 2024-07-30
- end of work period
- 2024-00-00
- talk show guest
- The X Factor
- birth name
- Onyeka
- ethnic group
- African people
- writing language
- English language
Sources (11)
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Gallery (2)
Available in 20 languages
- Español
- Français
- Deutsch
- العربية
- Bahasa Indonesia
- dag
- Egyptian Arabic
- Fula
- Hausa
- Igbo
- kai
- Kanuri
- Malayalam
- Nigerian Pidgin
- simple
- Swahili
- Tiếng Việt
- Urdu
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