Today's Celebrity Birthday - Sir Victor Uwaifo

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1941

 Place of Birth: Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria

Profession: singer, songwriter, sculptor, university teacher

Nationality: Nigeria

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• Sir Victor Uwaifo  is a Nigerian musician, writer, sculptor, and musical instrument inventor.
• He also served as commissioner for arts and culture in Edo State under the government of Lucky Igbinedion.
• Uwaifo is famous for his joromi music.
• He records under the name Sir Victor Uwaifo. His best-known songs, "Guitar Boy" and "Mami Water", were a huge hit in 1966.
• "Mami Water" was inspired by an encounter (which he has long maintained actually occurred) with a "mami water" (mermaid) while lounging on Bar Beach, Lagos.