Her story is unique. She started singing from age five. Though one of her elder brothers, Okodua, always taunted the small girl for humming what he considered 'undecipherable babblings,' that little girl stuck to her guns.
Welcome to the world of a songbird Iyeoka Okoawo. Born in Houston, Massachusetts in 1975 to Nigerian parents from Edo State, her story is that of a restless soul in search of her essence. She happened to have found that essence through music and poetry.
Her homecoming a week before the protests that greeted the removal of oil subsidy on January 1, 2012 had served as an opener for her. She captures her experience vividly: "Being at home in Edo State for one whole week, listening to different people talk about the fuel subsidy made me appreciate what the people here feel and the challenges facing them."
Iyeoka, the third among four children, combines music and poetry, an emerging trend in the creative world, seamlessly like water coursing through its tributaries.
Having performed in various cities in United States of America, United Kingdom, among others, she believes there are still more grounds to conquer.
Her stopover also in Lagos on Tuesday was to introduce her works to Nigerian audience and connect with her roots.
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