Category: Music – Gospel
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Mike Bamiloye; evangelist, producer and film director, is Nigeria’s best known maker of Christian- themed films. A graduate of the Osun State College of Education, Bamiloye has thrived in movie-making despite lacking formal training in the art. The ministry started in 1985 with its first drama presentation; Hell In Conference coming in July 1986, but…
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Mike Aremu; front runner of Nigerian world-class Saxophone players, a distinguished in his ability to draw from traditional Nigerian sounds to create a sound that represents both creative-passion and his culture. Aremu is famous for gospel Jazz songs like Unveiled, Oluwaseun, Dance of Joy, and Ose. Growing up in the state of Niger, his musical interest started from…
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Joseph Adelakun; fondly called Ayewa, is a gospel singer, songwriter and televangelist. While still a moslem, Adelakun believes he heard the voice of Christ in his dream. This first spiritual epiphany came the night he first tried the Indian hemp. Later that day, while sitting among friends he heard someone say, “I want to use…
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OKOJIE Benedicta; Stage name Benita, child gospel singer known for her several native hits. Born in 1988 in Ifako, Lagos, Benita, the second child of her parents, started her music career under the tutelage of her mother at the tender age of four. She started singing professionally at the age of six and recorded her…
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Dupe Solana; Multi lingua Gospel crusader. Dupe took to church songs to fight depression following the murder in 1960 of her policeman father. She recorded her first elpee in 1966 and it was released in 1967. Jesu Mbo was a very successful debut, she has recorded eight elpees all on her independent record label. …
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Sunny Okosun; Popular Nigerian musician who came into the local music scene in the mid 1960s with an eclectic style which blended highlife, pop and calypso with organised reggae. His African reggae sound rendered in native Ishan language, vernacular and English is often steeped in sensitive national and global issues. Okosun’s 1977 release, Fire in…
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Classical music is a cultivated or art music descended from western tradition. Usually depicting seriousness, this type of music, as opposed to most everyday music are often written in form of staff notation. Classical music had impacted on the scene many centuries ago, long before the advent of Jazz and popular music. It marked the…
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Funmi Aragbaiye, music evangelist, was born and bred in Ondo State. The gospel artiste, in her own account, answered the call of God to minister through songs. Funmi grew up in a strictly conservative home, with a mother who lying, or mixing with opposite sex, or failing in school unkindly. As a school girl, she…
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Fela Sowande was a Nigerian music composer of international renown, born 1905 in Oyo. His early musical training was from his father, Emmanuel Sowande and a veteran composer, Thomas Ekundayo Phillips. Sowande went to London to study civil engineering, but he was soon supporting himself as a jazz musician. He founded a jazz septet, comprised…
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Josiah Jesse Ransome Kuti; Hymnist and 19th Century African missionary in the Yoruba country. He is the patriarch of the Ransome-Kuti family of Nigeria, which produced distinguished personalities like his son, Israel Oludotun Ransome Kuti and his grandsons: Olikoye, Beko, and the celebrated Afrobeat performer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Josiah Jesse Ransome-Kuti was among the pioneers…