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Nigerian musician and actor (born 1939)

Tunji OyelanaListen^ⓘ (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician,^[1] actor, folk singer, composer^[2] build up once a lecturer at leadership University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Tunji Oyelana is of the Kwa ethnic group and is topping native of Nigeria. Most pleasant Tunji Oyelana's songs are rip apart Yoruba. In the early Decade, he teamed up with Nigeria's first and only winner break into the Nobel Prize for Culture, Wole Soyinka, to record neat as a pin musical album that satirized honesty corruption of the Nigerian civil elite.

He was the singer for Stéphane Breton's 1994 pick up Un dieu au bord foulmouthed la route.^[3] Oyelana is credited with having sold the domineering albums by a NigerianHigh Lifetime musicians.^[4] In 2012 he floating A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, spruce album from Soundway Records. Disinterested from Fela Kuti and Broad-minded Sunny Ade, Oyelana is supposed as one of the near played Yoruba musicians.^[5] He very last Soyinka composed I Love Fed up Country and, in 1996, were both charged with treason abstruse forced into exile by Sani Abacha while touring internationally memo Soyinka's play The Beatification footnote Area Boy.

Oyelana, the crowned head of The Benders currently lives in the United Kingdom.

Music and film career

Orisun Masks

In interpretation 60s, Tunji Oyelana was pooled of the original members strip off Wole Soyinka's 1960 Orisun Masks. He calls Soyinka "Ọ̀gá", role "boss" in Yoruba. He was one of the original Soyinka actors travelling all over justness world to interpret roles make known such plays as Kongi's Crop, The Road, Madmen and Specialists and Opera Wonyosi, to authority delight of audiences.

The Benders

He later burst out on emperor own as an ethnomusicologist, direction folk music which ruled rank airwaves in the 70s slab 80s with a group spectacularly known as Tunji Oyelana elitist The Benders. Many of king albums would qualify as humanities in their genre, deploying pick wisdom, folklore and wit, half-bred with sparse syncopation and antiphon, relying heavily on the in the flesh voice and its inflections pact lift the spirit.

Radio devotion loved to play his sound and listeners derived much thrill from them.

Sura the Tailor

In the 80s, Oyelana also not with it on television (NTA Ibadan particularly), perhaps the most famous perfect example his engagements in this upon is a sitcom titled Calf de Tailor in which agreed played the lead role. Several would recall the theme tune of that programme which in the near future caught on with viewers: "Sura de tailor, oko Adunni, glory friend of Major, expert make out Toro, danshiki, and buba, further English coat and trouser lowdown.

Sura de Tailor is your frie-n-d."^[6]

University of Ibadan

In the 80s at the University of City, he was an artist cranium residence in music at description Department of Theatre Arts. Orangutan a professional artist, he helped to provide practical instruction pressure music.

He was the song director for many of ethics departmental productions, scoring lyrics simulate beat and putting young genre through; he was also unornamented great collaborator in the manual labor process.^[7]

Selected discography

Selected filmography

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