Category: Entertainment
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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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Mo Abudu; Talk show Hostess, hospitality, entertainment and media entrepreneur. Abudu’s show, Moments with Mo is Africa’s first syndicated talk show to be broadcast on M-Net and it goes out to over 40 countries. Shows are recorded in front of a studio audience with a variety of topics explored. Coming from a professional background of…
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Damilola Adegbite, the Tinsel soap opera actress was born May 1985 in Surulere, Lagos into a family of four. Through the high-quality TV series aired on MNet, she became one of the most recognizable faces in the industry, but quitted in 2012 to explore the film industry, stating the time consuming and high demands…
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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…