Tosyn Bucknor Is Dead! ?

Multi-gifted media personality and OAP with Inspiration FM, Oluwatosin “Tosyn” Bucknor has passed on at 37.

According to our sources, Tosyn was found dead by her husband Aurelien Boyer when he arrived from work Monday night.

Onome Obruther, Tosyn’s brother-in-law and husband of her sister Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, confirmed her passing to TheCable.

Tosyn was born with sickle cell anaemia and was a graduate of law from the University of Lagos.

ABOUT TOSYN BUCKNOR

Oluwatosin Bucknor, popularly known as Tosyn Bucknor, was a Nigeria media personality, actress and social media content creator. Bucknor was born to Mrs, Sola Bucknor and Mr. Segun Bucknor, a musician, in a cab on August 15. She’s sister to Funke Bucknor, CEO of Zapphaire Events. Tosyn attended Fountain Nursery and Primary School, Queens’ College, Yaba, University of Lagos (LAW) and the Nigerian Law School, Lagos (LLB). She did her National Youth Service Corps at Port Harcourt, opting to teach Literature-In-English and English at Archdeacon Crowther Memorial Girls’ School, Elelenwo.

Radio for Bucknor started with Tee-A on Eko89.7fm after which she interned at Cool 96.9fm where she hosted the Fun Hour Show on Saturdays. Since her youth service in 2009, Bucknor has been a morning show radio host at Top Radio90.9fm. She is the only female radio host handling the morning belt by herself.

She has won or been nominated for several awards including Future Awards, ELOY Awards, Best of Nollywood awards and more.

Bucknor is a singer-songwriter with one album (‘Pop Rock Soul and Jara’) out.

Two of her songs have been used as soundtracks for the short film. “Ireti” and she hopes more will be used for television and movies, and also used by other artists. Bucknor writes, sings, records and performs music as CON.tra.diction.

As a recording artist and singer-songwriter, she has worked with artists like Skales, Rooftop MCs and Eva, as well as producers like Sess, Tintin, Coldflames, Dj Klem, Knighthouse, Micworx and Cobhams.

Tosyn also runs ONE MIC NAIJA with two partners. One Mic Naija is a concert dedicated to getting new and established acts on the same stage.