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Eji Oyewole
12+ albums
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Born to a royal lineage in Ibadan, Prince Eji Oyewole has had a career as a flautist, saxophonist and sometime bandleader spanning well over half a century. He trained both in Nigeria and then at Trinity the prestigious music school in London, and his life as an itinerant musician also saw him living for extensive periods in Geneva, Hamburg and in Lyon. While for many years Fela Kuti (with whom Eji played) and King Sunny Adé commanded international attention to the exclusion of most other Nigerian musicians, as if there was only room for one Nigerian superstar at a time on the world stage, on the domestic scene things were very different. Eji was part of the huge craze for ‘highlife’, a generic term that in fact subsumed many different styles, united in their fusion of traditional west African forms with jazz influences and electric instruments, and in the bands’ working practices as entertainers at the nation’s numerous hotel/nightclubs. Surely one of the few musicians who has played with Fela, Miles Davis and Bob Marley, Eji Oyewole still plays regularly in Lagos, recently had an album of new material out with his current band The Afrobars, and has been a member of Faaji Agba, a super-group that has toured internationally and been dubbed ‘the Nigerian Buena-Vista Social Club’. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju from 1970s Lagos
Charity Begins At Home
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Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju from 19
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Nigeria 70: Sweet Times - Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos
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Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times - Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos
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Nigeria 70 Sweet Times - Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju From 1970s Lagos
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Charity Begins At Home (Edits)
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BBE Staff Selections 2015
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Nigeria 70 - Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife Juju from 1970s Lagos
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Nigeria 70: Sweet Times
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BBE20 - Attitude, Belief & Determination
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Nigeria 70: Sweet Times: Afro-Funk, Highlife & Juju from 1970's Lagos