Revisited: The Death of Rex Lawson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPiXYIoBmqs

49 years ago, a great highlife musician, Rex Lawson, left the company of the living. He was aged 33 years when he passed away.

Rex Lawson was born on the 4th of March 1938 to a Kalabari father and Igbo mother. Born after frequent early childhood deaths of his mother’s children, his father named him, Erekeosima, which means “not worthy of a name”.

Erekeosima grew well and lived with his maternal uncle who taught him how to play the trumpet. Once he got his hands on the trumpet…