Onuegbu Michael Ovie was born in Umuchieze, Abia (near Okigwe), Nigeria, on August 13, 1980, a fifth child and fifth son of his mother, to a Jehovah's Witness family; he, therefore, practically spent his entire childhood and adolescent years preaching from house to house. When he left the university, he taught at a newly founded government secondary school in Okuokoko, Delta, before going to Lagos to start a music career, which failed. As Michael King, Da Breed, and Meek Mike, he, however, recorded a few songs, one of which was sung on Children's Day for one of the then governors in Western Nigeria.
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Onuegbu Michael Ovie was born in Umuchieze, Abia (near Okigwe), Nigeria, on August 13, 1980, a fifth child and fifth son of his mother, to a Jehovah's Witness family; he, therefore, practically spent his entire childhood and adolescent years preaching from house to house.
When he left the university, he taught at a newly founded government secondary school in Okuokoko, Delta, before going to Lagos to start a music career, which failed. As Michael King, Da Breed, and Meek Mike, he, however, recorded a few songs, one of which was sung on Children's Day for one of the then governors in Western Nigeria.
Mike continued teaching in English, as he later taught only phonetics, diction, and etiquette. Finding children 'not speaking' he abandoned that endeavour. Mr. Ovie worked briefly as a co-presenter on radio and a proofreader for an indigenous newspaper.
On a journey to Eastern Nigeria in May 2014, he remembered his poem, Soul Seldom Sleeps, which was published in the university`s literary magazine, and how he was taunted by a schoolmate, poet, and friend, Tega. Tega taunted him for throwing away poetry. Right there on the bus, he wrote one for his beloved Annette (her real name has been changed).
He never had 'Annette,' but thanks to her, he has never stopped writing since. Currently writing as Michael King, he lives in Abuja, Nigeria.
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