Sinach

Christian JohnsonNovember 7, 2023

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Name	Sinach
Age	50 years
Date of birth	`30 March`, 1972
Nationality	Nigerian
State of Origin	Ebonyi State
Marital Status	Married
Husband	Joe Egbu
Occupation	Singer
Net worth	$10,000,000

Osinachi Kalu Okoro Egbu, known professionally as Sinach, (born 30 March 1972) is a Nigerian singer, songwriter and senior worship leader, serving in this capacity for over 30 years. She is the first singer-songwriter to top the Billboard Christian Songwriter chart for 12 weeks in a row. Her song “Way Maker” received three nominations and won the Song of the Year at the 51st GMA Dove Awards, making her the first Nigerian to win the Award. She also won the BMI song of the year, and in 2021 was recognized by the US Congress while on tour in the United States of America.

She has released 9 studio albums with several other hit songs, including “I Know Who I Am”, “Great Are You Lord”, “Rejoice”, “He Did It Again”, “Precious Jesus”, “The Name of Jesus”, “This Is My Season”, “Awesome God”, “For This”, “I Stand Amazed”, “Simply Devoted” and “Jesus is Alive”.

“Way Maker” has also piled up many recognition and awards since it was released in 2015. The visuals for Way Maker is currently the second most watched Nigerian music video on YouTube. In March 2019, it became the third Nigerian video to have garnered 100 million views on YouTube behind Davido‘s “Fall” and Yemi Alade‘s Johnny“. “Way Maker” has been covered by over 60 Christian artists such as Michael W. Smith, Darlene Zschech, Leeland, Bethel Music, and Mandisa and in many languages. In the first few weeks of the Coronavirus pandemic and lockdown in 2020, Way Maker was the go to song, as several viral videos in hospitals, parks were made with large numbers of people singing the song. After being on the Christian Copyright Licensing International top 100 chart for several months in 2020, it claimed the No. 1 position in June and has remained till December 2020, making it the most played song in Churches across the United States for 2020.

Sinach received a Bethlehem Hall of Faith certificate of commemoration during her visit to Israel in December 2017. In September 2019, Sinach became the first gospel artist from Africa to tour India, headlining concerts with several thousands in attendance.In May 2020, she became the first African artist to top the Billboard Christian Songwriters chart. In July 2022, she joined the Grammy Recording Academy as a voting member.

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Sinach Rise to Success

Sinach later released more and more songs and albums. She was also attending numerous concerts in over 50 countries including India, South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, Dominica, Jamaica, Uganda, and much more.

On 15 April 2014, she was invited to Uganda where she shows astonishing performance and gains a lot of fame there.

She further led to the release of several albums, including Chapter One, Shout It Loud, He Did It Again, Way Maker, Best of Sinach, Great God, and more.

While talking about her next songs, those include Fire In Me, This Is Your Season, Awesome God and so far.

Sinach Marriage and Husband

Sinach got married to Mr. Joseph Egbu in 2014 in her home Church Christ Embassy. They had a wonderful marriage with a lot of celebrations. Many other singers from Nigeria also attended her marriage ceremony.

In fact, her husband, Joseph Egbu is a pastor at Christ Embassy Church and is famously known as Pastor Joe.

Their love and care for each other could be seen on their Instagram pages. They usually used to mention each other and always post new pictures with themselves. While Sinach was at the LIMA Award pastor on 17 November 2019, she announced the arrival of her first child. It was about five years later when she finally became a mother also.

Sinach Net Worth

Sinach estimated net worth is $2 million as of 2021. She has several sources of earning while it would be singing, advertising, album writing, awards, and more.

However, her main source of wealth is singing as we all know. Although, money doesn’t matter in her life because of her belief to be rich by heart. And thus, she also used to donate her money to charity as a philanthropist.

Albums[edit]

In February 2021, Sinach announced the release of her 12th Studio album, titled, GREATEST LORD which features several high profiled Gospel artists such as Maranda Curtis, Darlene Zschech, Nathaniel Bassey, Panam Percy Paul, Micah Stampley, Leeland and Jekalyn Carr.

YEAR OF RELEASE	ALBUM^[44] ^[45]	TYPE OF RECORDING
2007	Chapter One	Studio Album
2010	I’m Blessed	Studio Album
2011	From Glory to Glory	Live
2012	Shout it Loud	Live
2013	Sinach at Christmas	Studio Album
2014	The Name of Jesus	Live
2016	Way Maker	Single
2018	There’s an Overflow	Live
2019	Great God – Live in London	Live
2020	Acoustics – Volume 1	Acoustics
2020	Acoustics – Volume 2	Acoustics
2021	Greatest Lord^[46]	Studio
2021	Live At Easter	Live