Adewale Oreshade is a lawyer , he is also a published poet and more recently a music promoter of some sort. If wale says something is good, you can bet it is, especially when it is something literary. Do enjoy the review and download the beautiful song by @simplyonarii after the cut..
Just as an overdose of heroin took the life of Glee's Star, Cory Monteith, and one of earth's music legends, Whitney Houston, it took the life of a childhood friend of Onarii. Onarii is the ingenious vocalist that sang that heart touching Ethel Solenga. One that laments the passing of her dear friend. The devastating effect of drug abuse can not be over emphasized. An example is Whitney, who is 5 feet 8 inches tall. She died of drowning in a 'bathtub' after the use of cocaine. Except the bathtub is as tall as she is, which isn't the case, her death epitomizes the havoc of being 'high'.
Ethel Solenga is a soft-rock, fused with soul-fusion with an orchestra classical feel. The song did not only tell the graphic tale of how drug abuse engulfed her friend, it pleads to every present user to stop it's usage. In Jos, where she resides, there had been cases of pharmacists who have been selling these drugs under direct threat to their lives. In her effort to change her immediate world, she sang this song and has been touring secondary schools across Jos to preach against the vice; drug abuse, to the youth.
Ethel was a childhood friend of Onarii. She was a very down to earth young lad full of life. They were very close. Then suddenly she withdrew from her. She thought that it was just maturity setting in. After all, ten childhood friends can't be friends forever. So she thought. Until, it turns out that the withdrawal was because of a continuous drug usage that went unnoticed until a major mental breakdown in 2004. She continued to suffer episodes of mental concoctions until she eventually kicked the bucket early this year; 2013.
In between 2004 and 2013, her mum, whose husband died ten years ago, had carried her to almost every psychiatric hospital in the country. She had had to relocate to five cities in search of her when she wanders off on barefoot. She would roam States on barefoot, and her mum will follow suit in search of her only child.
At this stage, I don't think I should be in the way of you and the lyrics of this touching song. #Reflect!
ETHEL SOLENGA BY @SIMPLYONARII
Just a little today
And a little more tomorrow
All but a year to change a girl completely
Just a little today
And a little more tomorrow
All but a year to change a girl completely
Ethel Solenga
We don't know you anymore
You deny you use
Now despise our company
We miss you Ethel
But we can't reach your soul
We don't know you anymore
Yet you deny you use
Now despise our company
We miss you Ethel
But we can't reach your soul
We don't know you anymore
Roll, smoke, snort, cook, pop, inject
Roll, smoke, snort, cook, pop, inject
Finally it takes your soul
Finally it takes your soul
Finally it takes your soul
Finally it takes your soul
Finally it takes your soul
Get help, Ethel
Finally it takes your soul
Get help, Ethel
Finally it takes your soul
Get help, Ethel
Finally it takes your soul
Oooh, redeem your soul
Finally it takes your soul
Don't let it take your soul
Don't let it take your soul
Don't let it take your soul
Don't let it take your soul
No no no don't let it take your soul
Don't let it take your soul
Don't let it take your soul
Don't don't don't don't don't don't don't don't let it take your soul
aayyyee
Don't let it take your soul ooooooo
Don't let it take your soul
Onarii has had talks in over 30 schools in Jos, and has sang them the story of Ethel. It is her dream to sing in ALL secondary, tertiary and higher institutions in Nigeria. So that no one will abuse drugs, or die of its abuse. She sees her music as an instrument to bring about social, political and philosophical change. One that can engineer the world to be a better place.
You can reach Onarii on twitter at @simplyonarii
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