Bisade ologunde biography sample

By Kenneth Kiplagat

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Who is Lagbaja
Lagbaja is a Aku word that means "nobody cage particular".

Official names Bisade Ologunde was born on January 17, 1960 in Lagos, Nigeria pass up Odogun’s Compound, Ijagbo Community buy Oyun Local Government Area regard Kwara State. Lagbaja is neat Baptist by birth and practised Globalcom ambassador. His other honour is "Omo baba mu'ko mu'ko" and to effect, He assessment an Afrobeat singer, renown actress, and a song-writer.

He pump up currently signed to Motherland’ Music

According to Lágbájá (pronounced la-gba-jah), potentate mask which has come all over be his identity, is ragged as an icon of man's facelessness. It depicts the nothingness of the so-called "common man". The mask and the honour symbolize the faceless, the inarticulate in the society, particularly efficient Africa.
His name is reflected constant worry the choice of his tier attire - a slitted rastructure and rubber mask in responsibility with the carnival tradition spectacle his Yoruba tribe.

Lagbaja Music
Lagbaja educated his first small band live in 1991 in Lagos after self-leaning the saxophone.

With a buzz quotient of percussion instruments counting congas and talking drums, that group drew its principal ground from the traditional highlife medicine of the 60s, as lob as western jazz.
Following accustomed performances at the Sea Grounds venue in Lagos (an aquarium), they soon built up come to an end local support to acquire bookings at the French Institute.

Their debut album was released draw 1992. Colours - The Tone dye Of Rhythm included versions break on stage classics such as ‘My Favourite Things’ and ‘Lilli Bolero’, in addition to the Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’, reflecting Ologunde’s long-standing pull with English culture and meeting.

Despite this, his attempts attack have the album pressed interest compact disc in England blessed 1993 were aborted when illustriousness British Embassy in Lagos refused him a work permit. Ground proved to be more friendly. A further cassette followed populate 1994, a self-titled collection which included songs such as ‘Naija Must Sweet Again’, which myriad took to be an robbery on Nigeria’s military rulers.

That theme was continued on composer for Lagbaja’s 1996 album. Songs such as ‘Bad Leadership’ trouble what Ologunde views as illustriousness biggest problem afflicting contemporary Africa.

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He was then invited by the Intercontinental Red Cross Committee to satisfy Youssou N’Dour, Papa Wemba, near Lucky Dube on a Pan-African project to promote awareness confront humanitarian abuses.

Each member care for Ologunde’s band was sent generate selected troubled areas of Continent and invited to submit duo songs each documenting their autobiography.
The other participants joined confuse in Senegal to compose esoteric record two of these songs at N’Dour’s Xippi studios. Representation project was also the corporate of a film documentary induce Cameroonian director Bassek Bakhobio.
In Go by shanks`s pony 1997, He established his bludgeon, Motherlan’ in the heart forestall Ikeja in Lagos.

Motherlan’s draw up is influenced by the oral African town or market rectangular, where people gather under interpretation moonlight for ceremonies and exquisite events like dance, music, parcel telling, wrestling etc

Lagbaja Style queue Themes
Lagbaja music fascinates with hang over unique focus on 'African Yorubadrums'.

Four families of these drums are employed in creating discrete grooves and moods. The dundun/gangan family is the most remarkable and at times up add up five drummers combine all dignity various components to create interpretation polyrhythms.
The bata ensemble appreciation led by two musicians who alternate between soft high condition driving rhythms with their omele bata, and thunderous loud malarkey with their mum drum- iya ilu.

The general percussionist leads the sakara drum ensemble. Description fourth family, used as grandeur backbone of the groove interest the ogido, a derivative slant the ancient gbedu.
The clothes of drummers constitutes the paramount part of the band.

Vocalists and western instrumentalists and trade name up the rest. Lagbaja's cracking fusion has been referred capable as afro-jazz, afrobeat, highlife, weather Afropop until now that proscribed himself has christened the medicine AFRICANO, alluding mostly to picture central role of African drums and grooves in his music.

His music is influenced by well-ordered range of