Shade Omoniyi (born Folashade Omoniyipronunciationⓘ; 16 April 1971), better known by her sobriquet Lepa Shandy Listenⓘ, is a Nigerian Yoruba movie actress who was described by the Nigerian media as "a veteran[1] and one of the pioneers of the Yoruba movie industry" Omoniyi's sobriquet Lepa Shandy[2] was a character she played in a movie with the same title.
Omoniyi then applied to the University of Lagos and was admitted to study Data Processing.
[8] At first, she was a model due to her slim features then later on became a make-up artist for actors before debuting her acting career in the Nigerian Nollywood movie industry in 1996[6] where she played short roles in English speaking movies.
She debuted with the movie titled Breaking Point before switching to the Nigerian Yoruba movie industry where she landed her breakthrough role as the title character in Lepa Shandy, a Yoruba movie produced by Bayowa which became a blockbuster and formed the foundation for Omoniyi's acting career.
Omoniyi's birthday and movie premiere was attended by her colleagues and also by Former First Lady of Lagos State, Abimbola Fashola.