Read a conversation with Officer about the album and release concert. How were you first exposed to Mabel Mercer? When I moved to New York City in the mid-1980s, I was obsessed with theatre and music.

Mabel Dorothy Segun is 90. At 90, she was still very vocal. Born in 1930 in Ondo town, Ondo state, she comes from a literary family of Sabongida Ora in Edo State. Her father, Reverend Isaiah ...