Nigerian gospel singer Kefee Obareke, otherwise called Kefee, is dead.
Oluwale Oni, a friend of the singer’s host in America who broke the news Friday morning, disclosed that the husband of the Branama crooner, Teddy Esosa is devastated by the incident.
Oni, who said he has been in touch with family members of the deceased noted that Esosa is currently in a state of mourning.
The late singer had been admitted in a Las Vegas hospital, United States, after slipping from a plane stairs, resulting into coma.
Her husband and colleagues in the entertainment industry have for weeks been asking her fans to pray for her recovery.
Oni said Kefee died Friday, at about 4am, Nigerian time. “My friend stays in Chicago. Whenever Kefee is in Chicago, she stays in her house. She has been checking on her in the hospital.
“They attend the same church in America. So when she died at about 4am on Friday, she called to tell me. It was actually about midnight there when she called me, but she said that she couldn’t sleep. That is all I know,” he said in a telephone conversation.
News of Kefee’s death has soon gone viral, with colleagues and fans displaying her photographs on various social media platforms.
Equally devastated by the news, gospel music artiste, Lara George said, “We were colleagues in the industry. Not so many of us are female gospel artistes in the industry.
“I have met her several times. We have been on stage together several times. We interacted as colleagues. I won’t say that we were very close, but we knew each other well.
“I will miss her drive. She seems to me like a very determined woman who had been through so much and yet kept her faith in God. For me, that is one of the biggest testimonies that one can have.
“She kept her focus on God in spite of whatever it is that life threw at her. In her, I admired the drive to succeed and the drive to keep at what she was doing and to keep on expanding her frontiers and enlarging her territory,” George said.
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