The singer who used to be a regular performer at the Stadium Hotel, Iyun Street, Surulere, according to Vanguard news, has been conspicuously absent for about a year, due to ailing health and based on doctor's recommendations.

The news update was made public last weekend when the legend was unusually absent from the 'nightlife faithful gathering' held every Saturday at the Stadium Hotel, Iyun street, Surulere, Lagos, which he established.

It was also gathered that Dr Victor Olaiya had stopped attending his weekly gig and occasional performances for over a year now, for obvious health reasons.

“Aside from attending his gigs, he no longer comes to work regularly as a result of age-related health issues, his manager, Gbenga Adewusi divulged”.

In July 2013, Dr Victor Olaiya featured 2Baba on the remix of his hit song 'Baby jowo ('Baby mi' ).

Olaiya released an album with Ghanaian highlife musician E. T. Mensah. Both the drummer Tony Allen and vocalist Fela Kuti played with Olaiya and went on to achieve individual success.

Olaiya's music style was influenced by James Brown with horn parts harmonised in Brown's style, as opposed to the mostly unison lines of Afrobeat. The music includes the swinging percussion of Tony Allen, but not the syncopated style that Allen later pioneered.

Olaiya released over 26 projects over the course of his life from the late 1950s through to 2012.