Arguably the most gifted, celebrated, acclaimed truly born-again gospel
artist of his time, Patty Obassey is dead, but his musical dreams kept flying
as his wife, Minister Esther Patty Obassey popularly known as Ezinwanyi di uko,
has sustained her husband’s dreams. She spoke to SUCCESS DAMIAN recently at a
conference titled Let Me Pass organized by Rhema Deliverance Mission International
in Lagos.
Esther Obassey who thrilled the congregation with her
husband’s evergreen songs Ezinwanyi di
uko and Bianu ka anyi kele Jehovah,
revealed the source of her musical inspiration when she said “On the source of
my musical inspiration, I have passion for music from my childhood, God being so
kind, introduced me to a musician whom I got married to, and with the help in
the music industry and with what he was doing, I think I grew from there to
what I am now.
Mrs Obassey also spoke on what she is doing to keep
alive the mantle handed over to her, especially performing her husband’s songs,
she said “I would say I have been doing this before he died, I didn’t start
today, because when he was alive anytime he had so much programmes, he would
send me to go and cover for him, depending on where the programmes were. So
from there I said, if I have been doing this when he was alive, there was no
need to allow the dream to die, so I have to continue from there and by God’s
grace, I can tell you, God has been faithful through this ministration, and I
am not finding it difficult to do his works because it is something I have been
doing before.”
She also let out what she considered to be her
challenges when she said, “Not really that I have not had any challenge, I had
but you know in Nigeria, they normally see musicians that, you must have your
own albums in the market, but because I have no album in the market, it became a
little bit of a challenge, and most people do not know that I sing except that
the few that have seen me on stage where I sing. That was the challenge I was
facing. Then when I started going for some programmes, some men of God were
seeing me, they say wow, you are trying, we don’t know that you are doing well,
from that point they started inviting me to their programmes.”
On her intention of doing an album, she said “I am
believing God; that before the middle of next year my album will be in the
market.”
Ezinwanyi di uko, speaking on her family music carrier
said she has two boys and a daughter “My first son is in the university of Nigeria
Nsukka reading music, he is also into music; he plays guitar, my second son
just finished SSCE, my daughter is in SS1.
She opened up on the challenge she faced immediately
her husband died. “Apart from my music ministry, initially I was into a
business, but when he became sick, it drew everything away from us, so
financially I couldn’t go back to it, right now I am not doing anything else,”
On her challenges working in a male dominated sector she
said “I wouldn’t say there is any challenge on that level, everybody has his or
her own grace carrying him or her. So if you have your own grace, where you
want to attend or where you are I don’t think it is a problem to me. I have my
own grace everybody’s grace is not the same; we are the same but grace differs
when it comes to the things of God, the grace they carry may not be the same
grace that I carry.
So I am doing mine on my own level, in my own grace.”
Obassey added “All of my children are musicians, my
first son is into guitar, in fact it is because of his schooling, that I didn’t
come with him, if I had come with him I wouldn’t be facing some of the
challenges I faced here,” Mrs Obasi
disclosed.
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