The aged musician died on June12 after a brief illness but now, his younger children had cried out that the died musician left nothing behind and their future looked bleak as they might dropout of schools because of money. Read below the interview granted to Punch by the family of the late musician
The location was the Millennium Estate,
Oko-Oba, Agege, Lagos residence of deceased highlife singer, Fatai Olagunju,
otherwise called Rolling Dollar. His two wives, Zainab and Serifat, some of his
children including Sikiru-who is the singer’s 50-year-old first son, wore a
pensive mood as our correspondent walked into their home.
It was evident from their faces that they were
yet to come to terms with the reality of the death of the 86-year-old songbird,
Rolling Dollar, who breathed his last on June 12, coinciding with the 20th
anniversary of the acclaimed “fairest and freest” election in Nigeria. The
musician shot to stardom a few years back via a successful album,
Won Kere si
Number Wa. But despite his fame, the family is worried about the education
of his younger children.
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