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Momodu had actually made it to the big stages, performing in clubs in Lagos. And he takes his position as the long-running Etsako Super Star very seriously indeed. We used a locally-built amp that was powered by ordinary torchlight batteries. While his Shanu Olu albums are perhaps his most popular, Waziri Oshomah did not stop recording after parting ways with the company in Given his musical familial heritage, young Isah took to performing quite early in life, by age 7 already leading the school band at St.

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While he had a natural interest in the indigenous cultural music of his community, he was obsessed with the new music capturing the hearts and minds of the young generation: Oshomah decided that it was time for him to mjsic out on his own and pursue a new direction for his music. He remains busy and in demand even today, and while he cannot definitively state exactly how many records he has made throughout his career, he estimates the figure to be around Stay Connected with us.

Osomegbe is situated in the territory of the Ekperi clan, and its population is culturally and religiously heterogeneous. It is rare though, that the spotlight is leveled towards the mid-western region of the region of the country, the territory encompassing the modern-day Nigerian states of Edo and Delta.

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And in the field of Afemai music, the undefeated champ is Alhaji Waziri Oshomah. Still, he could not escape the lure of music.

Black Jazz 15, Rare Groove Jazz heaven with so many good tracks. Given his musical familial heritage, young Isah took to performing quite early in life, by age 7 already musoc the school band at St. By this time, the sphere of Afemai music had slowly begun to expand beyond its immediate locality thanks to the rising popularity of Anco Momodu, the first Etsako bandleader to make a significant impact on a national level. Momodu had actually made it to the big stages, performing in clubs in Lagos.

He then set about a series of experiments with the goal of modernizing Etsako music for a new, broader audience. While his Shanu Olu albums are perhaps his most popular, Waziri Oshomah did not stop recording after parting ways with the company in So I mixed some of that with the traditional sound.

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Or perhaps they might mention other Yoruba musicians such as King Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey, the twin pillars of the southwestern juju style. Andrews Secondary School, Fugar and secured a respectable government job as a gauge reader with the Ministry of Water Services and Hydrology.

ademai Superfly Records is proud to present here, reissued afmai the first time ever, the third installment: In fact, he continued to produce records on an assortment of regional labels as well as on his own imprint. When most people think about the music of Nigeria, the first thing that comes to mind is probably afrobeat, the darkly funky African jazz stew popularized by bandleader Fela Kuti, himself a Yoruba from the southwestern region of the country.

Afemai music has for mueic time been the best-kept secret among the more discriminating connoisseurs of Nigerian highlife, and for many it is almost addictive, driving them to search madly for more and more music in this semi-obscure style. Maybe their thoughts would glide more towards the eastern extreme mjsic the country, where Igbo highlife stars such as Stephen Osita Osadebe, the Oriental Brothers and Oliver De Coque have made a mark upon the arena.

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Track of the Day. Edo in particular boasts of a wealth of musical traditions that is both deep and broad, yet shamefully underexplored; and among this assortment of musical traditions, one of the richest is the music of the Afemai, or Etsako people. Or other modern sounds like reggae, rock, I would take all of these and mix them into my music. Black Jazz Musicc After the end of the Nigerian civil war oftastes had begun to change: The group started as a rather shambling, low-key affair: And he takes his position as the long-running Etsako Super Star very musoc indeed.

His profile rose considerably when he joined the stable of the ascending juju-oriented label Shanu Olu in and over the next six years released a five-volume series of eponymous albums that received strong national distribution. And when that masquerade plays, nobody expects any other affmai come after it.

However, Oshomah felt that the music could be taken even further. He successfully completed his high school education at St. Mary Musid School, Ekperi. Comments 4 Fatai Jayeoba says: