Nigeria's Raggaei legend Majek Fashek late: post his song you liked most.

After battling a long time illness, Nigerian music legend and reggae king Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly called Majek Fashek, is dead.

Majek Fashek was born on March 7, 1963 in Benin City to an Edo mother and a Yoruba father but identifies with his Benin root.

Fashek was married to Rita Fashek who inspired the song Without You; the couple had four children but has since divorced.

Some of his musical works include Prisoner of Conscience that featured multiple award-winning tracks Send Down The Rain (1988), Little Patience, Spirit of Love, I & I Experience, So long too long, Rainmaker, Weep Not Children and Rasta Ganstar.

Here are few things to know about Majek the Rainmaker:

1. Majek Fashek various translations of his name Fasheke (Ifa-Kii-she-eke) include “high priest who does not lie”, “powers of miracles” and “(system or medium of) divination does not lie”.

2. After Majek’s parents separated, Fashek remained in Benin City with his mother and joined the choir in his local Aladura Church and learned to play the trumpet and guitar whilst composing songs for the choir.

3. In the early eighties Fashek, who at the time went by the stage name Rajesh Kanal, joined the group Jastix with McRoy Gregg, and was lead singer for Black Rice. They were best known as the in-house band on the show Music Panorama on NTA Benin City.

4. In 1988, shortly after Jastix disbanded Fashek, he began a solo career by releasing the album Prisoner of Conscience and became Nigeria’s top reggae artist after the song Send Down The Rain became the most popular song of the year.

5. In 1989, he won six PMAN awards, which included Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Reggae Artist of the Year.

6. After leaving Tabansi Records, he was signed to CBS Nigeria in the early 1990s and released So Long Too Long. In 1990 he was signed to Interscope Records and released the critically acclaimed album Spirit Of Love, produced by “Little Steven” Van Zandt.

7. Fashek played a supporting role in the 2000 Nollywood movie Mark of the Beast and starred in a commercial for non-alcoholic beverage Diamant.

8. In 2016, he performed in a comedy show (with more than ten thousand audiences in attendance) in Lagos, Nigeria, with a roundly power-filled and soul-lifting performance.

9. In December 2016 Fashek contributed the song “We Are Not Afraid” to a video featuring 200 celebrities to raise funds for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

10. During the xenophobic attacks on Nigerians, he was unhappy about the Nigeria-South Africa crisis. He recalled that he did a song Free Mandela and it helped back then.

Source: Wikipedia


Some of his best hit's


Send Down the Rain’ and


‘So Long Too Long’.


‘Late Night with David Letterman’.

Prisoner of Conscience that featured multiple award-winning tracks Send Down The Rain (1988),

Little Patience, Spirit of Love, I & I Experience,

So long too long,

Rainmaker,


Weep Not Children and


Rasta Ganstar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKODy8u1kw

Send down the rain is my favourite because its the most powerful and spiritual song of his. The history behind the music is mind blowing

Spirit of love... Holy spirit ❤️❤️❤️

Holy spirit is my favourite.... So deep a song

Holy spirit

Rainmaker

So Long
Little Patience

Majek fashek, the land of death, the place for all mortals

Heaven and Earth will pass away
The spirit of love will never go away!!
Rip Mr Majekodunmi Fasheke!

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The greatest Nigerian reggae artist is gone. RIP sir.
I'm Not Tired
Majek Fashek
Wa yeh
Wa yeh
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
They am tired
But am not tired
It's only a dead man is tired
Dead man is tired
Give me the power to carry on your word
Give me the power to carry on your word
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Look at the bird in the sky they are flying so high
They neither sow not reap
But they got the freedom of the soul
See the children Playing around in the street
They don't have no evil intention
The wicked people they still prosper in a this world
Lord lord lord lord
I want you to answer my question now
But why can't the righteous run through creation triumphantly
Eh
Give me the power to carry on your word
Give me the power to carry on your word
Give me the power to carry on your word
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living man yes I
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living soul yes I
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Ayla bia oo
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living soul yes I
Can the dead praise jah no way
But the living man yes I
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Wa yeh
Wa yeh
Life is just one big rocky road
Life is just one big rocky road
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive yeh
Life is just one big rocky road
You will stumble and you will fumble and then you will crumble
If you believe in the lord
You'll never fall down
Life is too short I won't look back
Life is too short why should you look back
Cos if you look back you will lose track
Life is too short I won't look back
Cos I know cos I know
I will stumble and crumble and start to crumble
But I believe in the lord
I'll never fall down
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living soul yes I
Can the dead raise you no way but the living soul yes I
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living man yes I
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Aya bia oo
Can the dead praise you but the living man yes I
Can the dead praise you no way
But the living soul yes I

Awanna ray awanawana ray

wata si gban nna

And na the matter of two boys wey say na him sing am dem de settle so.

Even though I walk through the valley of death, I am not afraid, even though o walk through the valley of sin, I am not afraid.
Almighty guide I
Jehovah guide I
Rastafara guide I

So Long

Send down the rain.
Little Patience
So long too long,

Send down the rain

Africa Unite,, he's a legend dead or Alive. RIP Majek

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So Long


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXQwEz8zMvE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqravMAc6vc

Majek fashek in new york

Jaapa ft Naira Marley

Send down the rain