{"id":17767,"date":"2020-06-02T09:50:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17767"},"modified":"2020-06-02T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T09:50:52","slug":"rain-maker-majek-fashek-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=17767","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rain Maker\u2019 Majek Fashek dies at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Popular Nigerian music legend and reggae maestro, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek<\/a> in music circles, has passed on at the age of 57.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demise of the musician best known for his massive 1988 single \u2018Send Down the Rain\u2019, was made known early on Tuesday morning on Instagram by his longtime manager, Umenka Uzoma Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday has been pressure calls, it is true that the African No 1 Legendary ICON has gone to be with the LORD his Maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet celebrate him, his achievements and his family, whatever decisions made by his immediate family will be notified,\u201d Umenka wrote on the late singer\u2019s Instagram page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majek Fashek who has worked with various artists worldwide, including Tracy Chapman, Jimmy Cliff, Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, and Beyonc\u00e9 has been plagued by a mysterious illness in recent years, and in 2019 he was on admission at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reggae icon was later discharged but frequently checked in for therapy in a hospital somewhere in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1963, Majek started his career in the early 80s with the group Jastix, but he later went solo and released his debut single \u2018Prisoner of Conscience in 1988\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album was released to massive success and had the popular track “Send down the Rain”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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