Prof. (Sir) Victor Efosa Uwaifo (M.O.N) born on 1st of March 1941 in Benin metropolis, Nigeria. He attended Western Boys high college in Benin metropolis and St. Gregorys school, Lagos between 1957 and 1961. He started enjoying the guitar at the age of 12 and his earliest trendy song influences got here from being attentive to gramophone documents of Spanish and Latin American tune.
At the same time in university, Victor Uwaifo led a number of tuition bands, he played for Victor Olaiya's all stars band in Lagos on contract. He won a scholarship as the excellent scholar on the Yaba institution of technological know-how, Lagos the place he studied portraits between; 1961 - 1963. On commencement, Victor Uwaifo worked with what's now Nigerian television Authority earlier than forming his own band, the Melody Maestros in 1965. It used to be the band that stormed Japan Expo 70 and FESTAC seventy seven.
He recorded many songs as a solo artiste between 1960 and 1965. These comprise Oko no mu me Police and Akugbe and many others. His fundamental smash however came when he signed onto Philips (West Africa) label in 1965. Victor Uwaifo and his Melody Maestros had best hits like Siwo-Siwo, Guitar Boy and Joromi which were very fashionable in Nigeria and the West African sub-region in the late 60s and early 70s. Due to their status, a Ghanaian fabric was once nicknamed Joromi , at the same time Guitar Boy was once used as a code identify for a military coup in Ghana in the 1970s. Joromi; a song situated on the story of a legendary hero in Benin history, gained a gold disc award, the primary in Africa in 1966. Of equal significance is also the tune Guitar Boy which narrates his come upon with a mermaid one night time at the Lagos bar seaside in 1967. He immortalized the experience now not handiest in track, but additionally with a sculptural illustration of the mermaid and his guitar, built in a water pool at his Revelation vacationer Palazzo in Benin city.Victor Uwaifo additionally invented the double neck magic guitar with 18 strings which he can rotate 360 levels on the velocity of sound.
Victor Uwaifo and the Melody Maestros had several national and international efficiency tours. He represented Nigeria at the Black artwork festival in Algiers in 1969 and at the African fashioned Wealth competition, London in 1973. Victor Uwaifo additionally toured Ghana, Abidjan, the U.S. Of the us, Japan, Europe and the former United Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1971, Uwaifo opened Joromi inn in Benin metropolis and also situated a television and recording studio the place he produced the famous Victor Uwaifo indicates within the late 70s and 80s.
In 2007, the Nigerian tv Authority celebrated his 50 years on stage. Victor Uwaifo continues to be very energetic in the performing circuit. He is currently experimenting with a fusion of hip hop and Highlife tune in an album titled Colabo 2012 presenting more youthful Nigerian musicians like Tuface Idibia, Dare artwork Alade, Henry Sax, Tobi Adegoke, Kunle Ayo and Ekhator Osas. Other of his brand new albums incorporate mixed grill (Ala Carte), Titibiti Expo, Yo-Yo-Yo, ancient Wine in New Bottle, Musical recollections 60s and 70s and lost and located. Victor Uwaifo stays a versatile artiste and a living legend getting higher with time and age.
He's a trustee of the Performing Musicians Associations of Nigeria (PMAN) and President of the Superstars and Elders forum of Edo State and Justice of the Peace (JP). He has motivated a whole new release of Nigerian musicians. The legendary Sonny Oksouns had his apprenticeship below him.
To offer life and works an everlasting legacy, Victor Uwaifo has a wealthy presence on the internet as good as a museum of sight and sound at his Revelation tourist Palazzo, Benin metropolis.
His further-ordinary expertise as a sportsman, pleasant artist, sculptor, technologist, innovator, multi-instrumentalist, musician and more recently an academician sets him apart as a rare breed, whose ingenuity has sustained his musical apply for the reason that the 1960s.
Prof. (Sir) Victor Uwaifo holds a Bachelors degree in first-class and applied Arts (top Honors).
ESOTERIC INVENTION
New Invention by using Prof. Victor Uwaifo. Unesco's dwelling Human Treasure:
The Flesh and metal 6th Finger variety.
I've invented a brand new procedure of playing the guitar referred to as Flesh and metallic, the sixth finger type.
I built the 6th finger with a bit of metallic connected to my final finger with a hoop and that solved the entire main issue for the reason that I wanted a different finger to be equipped to reach higher octaves even surpassing the violin and piano
i will alternate between the traditional finger harmer flick variety and steel to provide sound that simulates steel pedal Hawaii guitar, electric guitar or field guitar.
It goes beyond 22 frets of the guitar board and might suit the high octaves of violin or piano.
