Category: Music – Old
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Adetoyese Laoye; Timi of Ede. Before he ascended the throne in the 1940s, he was a church organist, a great dancer, a good singer, a lover of culture, and a historian. He was so culturally minded that he turned Ede to one of the nation’s cultural shrines to which people from far and near made…
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Obey Fabiyi; Nigerian musician famed for many hit songs which remain evergreen and still being purchased five decades after release, due to its philosophical lyrics and style. Also known as Ebenezer Obey, he came into limelight as the creator of Miliki, a genre of juju music. His hits which were either in the Golden Disc…
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Apala; Yoruba music genre descended, like Fuji, from Were, which has its root in the traditions of the Yoruba Muslim sect. Were, which started from the 1930s, has Quranic undertone with the tonic often based on submidiant tones that makes one enjoy the root percussion that is introduced into them. Apala is differentiated artificially from Were…
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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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Dadakuada music traditionally from Kwara State, Nigeria, include varieties like Waka, Alagbe, and Pamupamu. Dadakuada music emerged from different groups of minstrels in the early 18th Century who made songs derived from eulolgy, ijala (ballad), incantation, invocation, and folklore. The music is an admixture of all folkloric genres which serve as imperatives on which the…