Comfort Annor Explained

Comfort Annor
Birth Name:Comfort Otubea
Birth Date:1949
Birth Place:Adukrom, Eastern Region
Death Date:22 February 2015 (aged 66)[1]
Death Place:Kumasi, Ghana
Nationality:Ghanaian
Citizenship:Ghanaian
Occupation:Gospel musician
Deaconess of Pentecost Church[2]
Children:7

Comfort Annor (1949 – 22 February 2015) was a Ghanaian musician known for her soothing voice, which alternated between a mezzo-soprano and a contralto in the 1990s.[3] [4]

Birth and death

Annor, also known as Ama Otu Be, was a Deaconess of the Church of Pentecost and hailed from Adukrom in the Central Region of Ghana. She had seven children.[5]

Annor died on 22 February 2015 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, aged 66.[6] [7] [8] The cause was unpublicized, though she had liver and kidney ailments since October 2014.[9]

Songs

Comfort's songs include "Asaase Dahɔ Gyan", "W’awo Me ɔba", "Abraham Sarah", "Mewo Agyapadeɛ" and "Hena Na W’aye".[10] Her major album is "Dom Hene", released in 2006 with ten songs.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Comfort Annor To Be Buried On May 30. peacefmonline. peacefm. 8 August 2016.
  2. Web site: Comfort Annor To Be Buried On May 30. Peace fm. 8 August 2016.
  3. Web site: Veteran Gospel Musician Comfort Annor Cries For Help!...Kidney And Liver Almost Gone. Online. Peace FM. 2016-08-08.
  4. Web site: Ghana News - Veteran gospel musician Comfort Annor has died. Myjoyonline.com. www.myjoyonline.com. 2016-08-08.
  5. Web site: Comfort Annor To Be Buried On May 30. Online. Peace FM. 2016-08-08.
  6. Web site: Ghana News - Veteran musician Comfort Annor is dead. adomonline.com. www.ghana-news.adomonline.com. 2016-08-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20160917175301/http://www.ghana-news.adomonline.com/entertainment/2015/february-22nd/veteran-musician-comfort-annor-is-dead.php. 2016-09-17. dead.
  7. Web site: OBITUARY: Gospel musician Comfort Annor DEAD ENewsGh. 2015-02-22. Proudly Ghanaian! ENewsGh. 2016-08-08.
  8. Web site: Comfort Annor To Be Buried On May 30. Online. Peace FM. 2016-08-08.
  9. Web site: Ghanaian Gospel Musician Comfort Annor Has Died. AfricanSeer.com. 2016-08-08. 2016-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20160809104503/http://www.africanseer.com/news/400120-ghanaian-gospel-musician-comfort-annor-has-died.html. dead.
  10. Web site: Gospel musician Comfort Annor has died. Graphic.com. Graphic online. 8 August 2016.
  11. Web site: Dom Hene. Itunes. 8 August 2016.

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