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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Naijafans" data-source="post: 6154" data-attributes="member: 1">#Artisttribute <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag: Nigeria    :flag_ng:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f1f3-1f1ec.png" data-shortname=":flag_ng:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart    :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎵" title="Musical note    :musical_note:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f3b5.png" data-shortname=":musical_note:" />Sound Sultan (born Olanrewaju Abdul-Ganiu Fasasi)<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart    :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" />He  was a Nigerian rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, comedian, and recording artist. He was regarded as one of the pacesetters of modern hip hop music in Nigeria. He was notable for using his music to speak against poverty, corruption, bad governance and societal ills in Nigeria.Early life <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart    :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag: Nigeria    :flag_ng:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f1f3-1f1ec.png" data-shortname=":flag_ng:" />In 1991, he took interest in music and miming at school parties and writing his own lyrics. He attributed his early influence to his elder brother Baba Dee who studied theatre arts, and received most of his early stage experience through Baba Dee.[citation needed] He started learning how to play the guitar after his secondary school education and was in a band by 1999.Career <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart    :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag: Nigeria    :flag_ng:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f1f3-1f1ec.png" data-shortname=":flag_ng:" />Sound Sultan's career in show business started in the 1990s, when he hosted shows to raise money for studio sessions.By 1999, he had won numerous local talent-hunt shows. He released his first single - Mathematics "Jagbajantis" in 2000, which was a hit in Nigeria. After independently releasing other singles and featuring in hit songs of other artists, he was signed by Kennis Music.Personal life and death <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="❤️" title="Red heart    :heart:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/2764.png" data-shortname=":heart:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🇳🇬" title="Flag: Nigeria    :flag_ng:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f1f3-1f1ec.png" data-shortname=":flag_ng:" /><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🎵" title="Musical note    :musical_note:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f3b5.png" data-shortname=":musical_note:" />In 2009, Sound Sultan married his long-term girlfriend Chichi Morah, now known as Farida Fasasi.They had three children.On May 12, 2021, it was reported that Sound Sultan was somewhere in the USA receiving chemotherapy as he was reportedly diagnosed with Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma in the throat. He died on July 11, 2021, at the age of 44 as a result of complications from the illness.[16]Sound Sultan was the younger brother of Nigerian musical artiste, Baba Dee..[ATTACH=full]1458[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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