Celestine Ukwu was one of the most admired Igbo highlife musicians of the late 1960s and 1970s. With his band, the Philosophers National, he made gentle, guitar-led music with thoughtful lyrics about life, money and death before dying in a road accident in 1977.
Love Nwantiti
CKay
Last Last
Burna Boy
Rush
Ayra Starr
Unavailable
Davido
Lonely At The Top
Asake
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