Meet Angela Loks, the Beautiful Nigerian Soprano Singer from Ibusa

 Meet Angela Loks, the Beautiful Nigerian Soprano Singer from Ibusa 

- Emeka Esogbue 

When it comes to the orchestra, the Ibusa community merits a global place with her. She is a singer, music consultant, sopranist, soloist, orchestrator, and event planner. 

Favoured by beauty physically and intelligently; on and off the performance stage, only a few could have rightly guessed that Angela Nwalokomobi

Izegbu, professionally known as Angela Loks" is an Anioma from Ogboli part of the Ibusa community in Delta State. 

When it has to do with singing, Angela Loks, a widely celebrated big fish defines timeless quality and excellence but again, her Ibusa homestead, a rich home of human resource capital, has a way of swallowing up even the most accomplished so, Angela Loks remains an unknown big fish in her community. 

Earlier in her career, Loks came to the limelight with her distinguished role in Maya Angelou's poem titled "Phenomenal Woman," a poetic title that would thereafter earn her a nickname.

In 2014, she performed at the famous MTN Appreciation Concert thereby heightening her career and moving closer to the singing world. Loks had exhibited an uncommon vocalization as a sopranist extraordinaire on stage. Her unique soprano gift, being the highest female type with quality-assured tessitura which allowed her to sing at the highest register, thrilled the audience that night inside the MUSON Centre, Onikan, Lagos. She was simply impressive.

Court by global singers and other lovers of art, Angela Loks makes a good partner with good singers, associating with singers to perform songs. 

She was the pioneer soloist who performed "Poulenc's Gloria" with the MUSON choir in 2016, under the renowned German Conductor Micheal Voldhart and the event was the first performance in Nigeria.

According to Loks, her love for singing started early in life with Whitney Houston named her childhood idol. Nevertheless, one must not become oblivious to the musicianship that runs in her Ogboli bloodline especially, the Okonjis. Accordingly, the Anioma music legend, Chief Ogbogu Okonji, and his cousinly contemporary, Etiti Okonji; the Nwalamas in late Uche Nwalama, Iweanya Nwalama, and Isioma Nwalama are in this musical line.

She would join the children's choir in her local church which helped to build up her career. Further professional training from Prof Laz Ekwueme, Sir Emeka Nwokedi, Cohbams Asuquo, Druminski Dimitri, Maria Aseeva, Tunde Jegede, Marion Akpata, Ayo Bankole, German musicologist Walter Micheal Voldhart, and a host other internationally-acclaimed professionals became a culmination of her acme. 

Educational value is not also lost on Angela Loks who is a graduate of Business Administration from the Lagos State University and holder of M.Sc in International Relations from the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos.

It is interesting to note that the Music-talented Angela Loks is highly trained in music. She graduated in Music from the Musical Society of Nigeria (MUSON), under the MTN Foundation Music Scholarship Program and due to her academic brilliance, was one of the thirty Nigerian beneficiaries of the yearly music scholarship on merit.

She also brilliantly passed the Trinity and Graded Examination in piano theory, and voice from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London.

Music has taken Angela Loks around the world. She was part of the choir that represented Nigeria at the World Choir Games which were held in Cincinnati, USA, Riga, Latvia, and Tshwane, South Africa in 2012, 2014, and 2018 respectively.

She was the first appointed female Secretary-General of the Lagos Catholic Archdiocesan Music Commission (LAMCOM) and was recently appointed the first female consultant and Judge of the Non-Denominational Christian Choir Association of Nigeria (NCCN) and also the first female to attain such a position. 

Angela Loks says her philosophy in life revolves around kindness, a resilient sense of purpose, and societal peace and values. Her hobby is singing, listening to music, reading, and traveling. Angela Loks is a follower of Pen Master who likes to read his articles. 

It is no longer news that Angela Loks is vying for the People of Oshimili North (PoON) ambassadorial position. Being a manager of MUSON, the number one music centre in the country, Angela is a big name with global connection, a key capable of opening the doors of the People of Oshimili North. There could well be a live concert of singers in Enuani nation; the first of its kind in the name of PoON and to the glory of Oshimili North, if her ambition sails through. 

Concerned with humanitarian activities, she could focus her projects on widows but women are sure to make principal benefits. Loks could also run programs, capable of promoting PoON as an Organization but this is if the Organization makes a good choice to exploit her personality, background, and achievements. 

As they say, democratic votes are not weighed on quality but on quantity. However, if Angela Loks emerges, the People of Oshimili North may have chosen an artistic personality outside of political leaning, a rareness in her ambassadorial history.

This Author, (Dr. Emeka Esogbue), recently listed Angela Izegbu in his book, "Book of Records: A Compendium of Ibusa Firsts and Achievers," an accomplishing place that she merits.