Category: Entertainment – Music
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Soul is the urbanized Rhythms and Blues style of music which had come to be identified with the black American music movement of the mid-20th Century. In the late 1960s, the philosophies of Martin Luther King jnr., Malcom X combined with those of the various black movements asserted the rights of the Afro American in…
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Oluwaseun Anikulapo Kuti, simply called Seun Kuti, was born 11th January 1983, to legendary afrobeat musician, Fela Kuti. Seun is the youngest of Fela’s sons. He grew up around music and started playing saxophone and piano at the age of 9, also expressed his wish to sing to his father and in a short while,…
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Helen Folashade Adu, popularly known as Sade Adu was born 16th January 1959, in Ibadan, Oyo State Nigeria, to Adebisi Adu a lecturer economics, of Yoruba descent and Ann Hayes, an English district nurse, who met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria. Sade Adu’s early years were in her home country Nigeria, but…
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Deborah Oluwaseyi Joshua, popularly known as Sheyi Shay was born 21st December, in the United Kingdom, the last of four children. Sheyi Shay grew up around music, she first started listening to her mother’s collection which included Onyeka Onwenu, Salawa Abeni, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, King Sunny Ade, her mother was a chorister with a wide range…
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Isaiah Kehinde Dairo, popularly known as I. K Dairo was born January 1931 in Offa town, Kwara State, but his family is originally from Ijebu-Ijesa , Oyo State, before they migrated to Offa. Growing up I.K Dairo attended a Christian Missionary School in Offa, but later dropped out due to financial constraints. His father was a…
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Yemisi May Odegbami, popularly known as May7ven was born on 7th May 1984 in Ibadan to one of Africa’s football legend Segun Odegbami, father and Accountant /ex-athlete mother, Jumoke Tejumola. While growing up, May spent her first six years in Nigeria, where she attended Bodija International School for primary education, before relocating with her mother, brother…
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Dayo Adeneye is the music producer and entertainment entrepreneur who founded the record label, Kennis Music with Kenny Ogungbe in 2000. Dayo Adeneye had his secondary education at the Federal School of Arts and Science in Victoria Island, Lagos. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Southern University, Illinois, and a Master’s…
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Kenny Ogungbe is a media entrepreneur whose foray into the music industry, together with friend, Dayo Adeneye, vivified the Nigerian urban culture from the early 2000s. Kenny had his secondary education at Federal School of Arts and Science at Ogoja in Cross River State. He studied Accounting at the Southern University, New Orleans and a…