Guitarist Berkley Jones Ike dies at 71
Berkley Jones has reportedly died in Asaba few months to his 72nd birthday, The news was shared on Facebook by one Charlimo Imoloame
The year 2020 has proven to be one that would always be remembered because it has clamined a lot of lives and a lot of stars has gone 6feets deep.
It was gathered that legendary Nigerian guitarist, Berkley Jones Ike, has passed on at the age of 71.
Charlimo Imoloame wrote: “Legendary guitarist, Berkeley Jones Ike has died in Asaba, a little under a month away from his 72nd birthday.
At the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970, he signed on as lead guitarist in the upstart rock n’ soul band The Funkees. He later joined the rock group Clusters Nigeria’s first afro-rock power trio BLO–Berkley, Laolu (Akins), (Mike) Odumosu. While BLO would reign as one of Nigeria’s most respected and influential rock groups throughout the seventies.
He worked as a prolific session guitarist, often employed by super-producer Odion Iruoje to inject additional layers of sizzle, sophistication and all-around excitement to records by Ofege, Sonny Okosuns, Kris Okotie, “Blackman” Akeeb Kareem and many others.
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