Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu: biography, age, family, net worth

All you need to know about Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu popularly known as Obiwon Let’s take a look at his Biography, Nationality, Career, Age, Net worth, Family.

ABOUT
Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu is a Nigerian singer, musician, songwriter, recording artiste, music minister and evangelist.

EARLY LIFE
Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu was born on June 9, 1977 in Enugu, Nigeria to Humphrey Nwokolobia-Agu, a folk and classical music composer and arranger from Eastern Nigeria.

EDUCATION
Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu graduated from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) in 2001 where he studied Agricultural Extension even while building recording and live performance skills in eastern Nigeria’s music circuit.

CAREER
At age 5, Obiwon sang along to HipHop and R’n’B records from his elder brother’s Audio Cassettes and this was how his interest in music was sparked. At age of 15, Obiora was already writing songs and performing at local street clubs.

In 2002, while in Lagos for his NYSC (National Youth Service Corps), he formed a hip-hop group, “Thorobreds” which won the Best Rap Group at the Hip-hop World Awards Nigeria in 2005.

In 2006, he released the hit single “Onyinye” which was one of the singles in his debut album “Overture” in thesame year.

In 2009, he released his first Gospel album, ‘The Rebirth’ with the hit love song “Obi Mu O” dedicated to his then fiancée now wife. The single would go on to become the top wedding jingles at the time.

In 2013 Obiwon received with his first gospel music award at the National Gospel Awards as best crossover act for the song “F.a.t.h.e.r 2.0”. In November 2013 he released the album Gold Water which contained notable singles “Testify”, “Pour Your Love” and the urban gospel hit “Hail My King”, which featured fellow notable Nigerian urban gospel acts Frank Edwards, Eben and Kenny K’ore “Gold Water” was honoured at the Crystal Awards 2014, where Hail My King received the Best Collaboration award. In the same year, Gold Water also won four awards out of five nominations at the 4th Annual Nigerian Gospel Music Awards (NGMA). The NGMA winnings were in the following categories and for the following works: Best Collaboration Song for “Hail My King”, Best Soul/R&B Song for “Good To Me”, Worship Song of the Year for “Pour Your Love” and Album of the Year. Obiwon’s long time producer and friend, Phat-E was also honored with the NGMA Gospel Producer Of The Year award for his work on “Gold Water”.

In 2015, Obiora Obiwon released, “Floodgates (The New Overflow)”, “God of Wonders” and “Bunibe” to herald his 10th music career anniversary and announced his fourth album entitled “Floodgates: The Beginning Of The New Overflow”. The album, composed primarily of worship music, received positive reviews and saw him touring the church and Christian events circuit. Since then he has released three more post album singles – “A Billion Halleluyah” (2017), “Surge” featuring Glowreeyah Braimah (2018) and “The Life Of Testimony” (2019).

Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu and his wife

FAMILY
Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu married Nkechi Obioma Ezeife on 22 October 2011. The couple has a daughter Nmesioma, Michelle born on 4 September 2012 and also a son Chimdalu, Michael born on 23 September 2014.

PERSONAL LIFE
The name “Obiwon” was given to him by his uncle who named him after a science fiction hero, he changed it to “Obiora Obiwon” after a ‘spiritual experience’

ACHIEVEMENT

— 2006 Best Vocal Male Performance award

— 2006 Nigeria’s Voice of the Decade award.

— 2013 Best Crossover Act of the Year.

— 2014 Best Collaboration award at the Crystal Awards for “Hail my King”.

— 2014 Best Collaboration Song for “Hail My King”, Best Soul/R&B Song for “Good To Me”, Worship Song of the Year for “Pour Your Love” and Album of the Year at the Nigerian Gospel Music Awards.

NET WORTH
Obiora Nwokolobia-Agu’s net worth or net income is estimated to be $500,000 dollars. And he has made such an amount of wealth from his primary career as a singer.