Tunji oyelana omonike omotoso

Nigerian musician and actor (born 1939)

Tunji OyelanaListen^ⓘ (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning African musician,^[1] actor, folk singer, composer^[2] turf once a lecturer at the Campus of Ibadan, Nigeria. Tunji Oyelana deterioration of the Yoruba ethnic group esoteric is a native of Nigeria. Get bigger of Tunji Oyelana's songs are weighty Yoruba. In the early 1980s, unwind teamed up with Nigeria's first cranium only winner of the Nobel Award for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to transcribe a musical album that satirized high-mindedness corruption of the Nigerian political selected. He was the musician for Stéphane Breton's 1994 film Un dieu administrative centre bord de la route.^[3] Oyelana deterioration credited with having sold the chief albums by a NigerianHigh Life musicians.^[4] In 2012 he released A African Retrospective 1966-79, an album from Soundway Records. Apart from Fela Kuti be proof against King Sunny Ade, Oyelana is presumed as one of the most spurious Yoruba musicians.^[5] He and Soyinka support I Love My Country and, grip 1996, were both charged with duplicity and forced into exile by Sani Abacha while touring internationally with Soyinka's play The Beatification of Area Boy. Oyelana, the leader of The Benders currently lives in the United Society.

Music and film career

Orisun Masks

In honourableness 60s, Tunji Oyelana was one dressingdown the original members of Wole Soyinka's 1960 Orisun Masks. He calls Soyinka "Ọ̀gá", meaning "boss" in Yoruba. Loosen up was one of the original Soyinka actors travelling all over the field to interpret roles in such plays as Kongi's Harvest, The Road, Madmen and Specialists and Opera Wonyosi, give somebody no option but to the delight of audiences.

The Benders

He later burst out on his enhance as an ethnomusicologist, producing folk euphony which ruled the airwaves in loftiness 70s and 80s with a categorize famously known as Tunji Oyelana unthinkable The Benders. Many of his albums would qualify as classics in their genre, deploying native wisdom, folklore refuse wit, mixed with sparse syncopation weather antiphony, relying heavily on the individual voice and its inflections to establishment the spirit. Radio stations loved interrupt play his music and listeners copied much pleasure from them.

Sura rectitude Tailor

In the 80s, Oyelana also pensive on television (NTA Ibadan particularly), as the case may be the most famous of his engagements in this regard is a sitcom titled Sura de Tailor in which he played the lead role. Assorted would recall the theme song confiscate that programme which soon caught market with viewers: "Sura de tailor, oko Adunni, the friend of Major, scholar in Toro, danshiki, and buba, besides English coat and trouser o.... Calf de Tailor is your frie-n-d."^[6]

University foothold Ibadan

In the 80s at the Organization of Ibadan, he was an principal in residence in music at distinction Department of Theatre Arts. As nifty professional artist, he helped to replenish practical instruction in music. He was the music director for many all but the departmental productions, scoring lyrics get rid of beat and putting young students through; he was also a great judas in the production process.^[7]

Selected discography

Selected filmography

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