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Victony’s Near-Death Accident Shifts Parents’ Stance, Fuels Music Career
On April 26, 2021, Nigerian singer Anthony Ebuka Victor, known as Victony, survived a devastating car accident on Lagos’s Lekki-Epe Expressway, which killed his friend Doyin and left him in a coma for four days.
The crash, occurring at dawn under a drizzle-soaked sky, mangled the SUV carrying Victony and three others, its frame twisted against a roadside palm. Rescuers extracted him from the wreckage, rushing him to Evercare Hospital, where surgeons pieced together his shattered bones. Confined to a wheelchair for months, Victony relearned to walk in Victoria Island’s humid rehab centers, his determination etched in sweat-soaked therapy sessions.
His parents, devout Imo State traders, initially opposed his music aspirations, pressing him to prioritize his computer science studies at the University, where he enrolled in 2019. The accident, unfolding amid Lagos’s post-#EndSARS unrest, changed their hearts. Watching Victony perform Holy Father with Mayorkun at Eko Hotel in December 2021, standing unaided under blazing stage lights, they embraced his dream. . Victony’s 2022 debut album Outlaw, recorded in Lagos’s soundproof studios, channeled his pain into hits like Soweto,
