LIFE AND TIMES OF CHIEF INYANG HENSHAW

This was a yesteryear Nigerian music legend of no mean repute  the pride of the Calabar people and the golden voice in Efik language. 

Although Chief Inyang Henshaw passed away in the late 1970s, his songs still remain fresh, in-vogue and evergreen classics, and are featured to this day at events and social gatherings. 

He was a one-time director and shareholder at Decca & Afrodisia Records Company. Chief Inyang Henshaw through the course of his musical career, contributed immensely to the development of music in Nigeria, and he will continue to be missed by all who love good Highlife music in Nigeria & beyond.

He hailed from the Henshaw Royal family of Creek town in Calabar, a ruling house of repute.

Chief Inyang Nta Henshaw was a great influencer of the then Highlife Maestro Rex Jim Lawson.