Patricia Uwaje-King is a Gospel Artiste, Praise and Worship Leader, Songwriter and Leader of the award winning group, Midnight Crew, who has creatively turned local content to global appeal over the last 17 years. Also known as Mama Africa, she was born on the 26th of March, 1979 in Ibadan, Oyo State and hails from Delta State. She is the first daughter and the fourth child of seven children. She is known to be someone who has mastered her craft and is very vast in creativity. She had her Primary and Secondary Education in Ibadan, Oyo State where she was born; although, she later moved to Lagos, where she completed her Secondary education at Sari-Iganmu Secondary School, Lagos. After completing her Secondary School Education in Lagos, she proceeded to Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) and obtained a Diploma in Secretariat Administration in 2001 before she went further to obtain a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Creative Arts in 2009.
Patricia’s love for music could be traced to her childhood. She grew up amongst a family that sings and have a lovely ear for music. She began singing at age 12 in 1991 at Christ Winners Church, Surulere, Lagos, a church established by her father. She later became the choir leader. Her professional career began in 1999 when she did 11 jingles and commercials for African Independent Television (AIT) Nigeria, one of which is the popular A.I.T Jingle (First Among the rest is A, the best is I……) and other corporate organisations. At the time, she was also singing in church and campus fellowships and directing choirs. She went to YABATECH and was the music director of the school’s mass choir; Original Love Choir (OLC). Midnight Crew, the multi-award winning Gospel music quartet was formed out of OLC on the 8th of November, 2001.
Midnight Crew, a famous Gospel musical group, led by Patricia started at her days in YABATECH with 11 members. From the four years of forming the group, the number of the group decreased. Patricia revealed that the reason why the number of members dropped was because some got jobs, some got married and some could not just continue. They adopted the name, “Midnight” because they always rehearsed at night. During the day, members will attend lectures but meet together at night to rehearse. Patricia was chosen to become the leader of the group by other members because they observed her leadership skills. The group produced many songs with Patricia leading the vocals on most of the songs. They produced their first album “Fussion”, then Unlimited Praise” and then “Igwe”. This was the album that really put Patricia on the spotlight as she was the lead vocal on the track. Her strong vocals did justice to the song. “Igwe” enjoyed massive airplay in Nigeria and beyond and opened doors to Midnight Crew. Travelling all over the world with the crew, ministering in songs and leading praise and worship sessions, Patricia was delighted doing what she loves. With the crew existing for 12 years, Midnight Crew announced the next phase of their movement, permitting individual group members to embark on solo projects while leveraging on the platform already created by the Midnight Crew Music & Ministries. The group split in November, 2013.
Two years after the split from Midnight Crew, Patricia released her debut album titled “He’s Done Me Well ” in 2015. This 15 track album featured the hit tracks, Eze, “All Power” and “He’s done me well”. Shortly after the release of her 3rd single, “All Power”, Patricia announced the release of her debut solo album which was subsequently released on the 3rd of June 2015. On the 13th of June 2020, her sophomore album with 12 beautiful tracks, amongst which is the widely accepted “All Power Praise Medley” was released.
Patricia King is a concert project coordinator and the pioneer of the Delta Yadah concert series, which began in July, 2010 in Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, under the auspice of her foundation, David King Gospel Music Foundation, a foundation which she founded with the commitment to discover talents and organise Praise concerts with recognized community impact projects. She is also the Principal Consultant of a well-known rehearsal studio outfit, GPK Music Limited, which specializes in music and event production.
She is married to AdeSola King, a musicologist, who studied music at the University of Lagos as well. They got married in 2007 and they are blessed with a beautiful daughter. Her philosophy of life is: “Love God and be a blessing to humanity”.
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