Family, friends plan posthumous 35th birthday for Kefee

The family of late Branama Queen, Kefee (Irikefe Don-Momoh) are planning a posthumous birthday celebration and memorial event on February 5, the deceased’s birthday.

Teddy Don-Momoh, Kefee’s husband, told NAN that the event, which would be tagged ‘Kefee Birthday Project – A Memorial Concert and Album Launch’, would hold in Lagos.

He said the event had been given tacit approval by his friends and colleagues of his late wife, most of who will perform in her honour.

“It hasn’t been easy coping without my wife since last year, but God has seen me through so far,” he said.

“She had done a lot of work and there were various plans and different projects we were working on before her sudden death.

“It is only fair for me to continue with most of the works as she would have wanted them, and to also keep her memory alive.

“The memorial concert was initially planned during the burial period but because of the shock of the event and some other factors, we couldn’t realise it. A lot of her friends are interested in honouring her and we are going to do it this time by God’s grace.”

Don-Momoh said that a compilation CD of Kefee’s videos beginning from her first hit, Branama, was also being put together, and guests the posthumous birthday would received copies.

In a related development, the video for Worship Medley, a song on Kefee’s last album (Chorus Leader), has also been released.

The eight-minute video was shot in Hollywood, Los Angeles and Washington and concluded two days before the in-flight crisis that eventually led to her death.

The video was directed by the trio of Kefee, Teddy and Promise Adeyemi.

Kefee and Teddy completed a programme in video production at the Chicago Access Network TV in the first half of 2014.

Kefee was a popular pop-gospel artistes who was active in the entertainment industry for about 10 years.

She had an in-flight crisis in the US last year and passed away after two weeks of being in a coma.

She was born on February 5, 1980 in Sapele, Delta state, and was popularly known as the ‘Branama Queen’ in reference to her debut hit track and album, Branama.

She also scored a hit with the track, Kokoroko, featuring Timaya.

She had four albums to her creditv— ‘Branama’ (2003), ‘Branama 2’ (2005), ‘A Piece of Me’ (2009) and ‘Chorus Leader’ in 2013.