I love music. And I appreciate it even more in its diversity (don’t ask me about dance…lol!). For Africa, I enjoy various nations. From Mali (Oumou Sangare, Fatoumata Diawara, Amadou et Mariam (a married couple, both blind), Ali Farka Toure, don’t blame me, blame my Dad for that…lol!), Senegal (Vivian Ndour, the mbalax legend), Cote d’Ivoire (Alpha Blondy), Tanzania (Bi Kikude of Zanzibar, the queen of taarab and the oldest performing musician on earth before her death last April), Eritrea (Yohannes Tihabo, love Selamawit Gebru die! LOL), Algeria (any rai artiste will do but Cheb Khaled tops the chart for me) to Egypt (oh, the sonorous Umm Kulthum!), I am into various forms and genre of music, as in, musik.
Although some of my friends say it to my face that my taste of music is simply crazy (especially when I sing the lyrics which obviously make no sense to them), I cannot think of a more ecletic selection of tracks (some shake their heads pitifully when I cool off with a Kenyan song or nice Namibian jamz but do I send them ni?
Variety na the thyme of life na! LOL!). Not that I am not into Naija songs too o, just finished Kcee’s Limpopo…lol! So it was, I was ‘innocently’ enjoying nice selections on Gidilounge’s gPlayer (went straight to Essential Highlife) and then after a few tracks, the next thing I was nodding my head to was Chief Osita
Osadebe’s Nwanem Ebezina. I knew it was time for me to write on this star in the firmament of African entertainment. Hubert Ogunde will have to wait till another day…lol! Dear Esteemed Reader, I present to you, Nigeria’s master of highlife music, CHIEF ‘Nnanyi Ukwu’ STEPHEN PATRICK OSITADIMA ‘OSILI’ OSADEBE, Nigeria’s master of highlife music.
Source: Abiyamo
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