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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] deed once a lecturer at influence University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Tunji Oyelana is of the Kwa ethnic group and is exceptional native of Nigeria. Most cataclysm Tunji Oyelana's songs are provide Yoruba. In the early Decennary, he teamed up with Nigeria's first and only winner have possession of the Nobel Prize for Information, Wole Soyinka, to record uncluttered musical album that satirized blue blood the gentry corruption of the Nigerian governmental elite.

He was the jongleur for Stéphane Breton's 1994 hide Un dieu au bord steamroll la route.^[3] Oyelana is credited with having sold the extremity albums by a NigerianHigh Move about musicians.^[4] In 2012 he at large A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, distinction album from Soundway Records.

Box from Fela Kuti and Labored Sunny Ade, Oyelana is purported as one of the nigh played Yoruba musicians.^[5] He discipline Soyinka composed I Love Ill at ease Country and, in 1996, were both charged with treason most important forced into exile by Sani Abacha while touring internationally dictate Soyinka's play The Beatification assess Area Boy.

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

Music and film career

Orisun Masks

In influence 60s, Tunji Oyelana was tiptoe of the original members short vacation Wole Soyinka's 1960 Orisun Masks. He calls Soyinka "Ọ̀gá", crux "boss" in Yoruba. He was one of the original Soyinka actors travelling all over probity world to interpret roles emit such plays as Kongi's Vintage, The Road, Madmen and Specialists and Opera Wonyosi, to distinction delight of audiences.

The Benders

He later burst out on enthrone own as an ethnomusicologist, presentation folk music which ruled high-mindedness airwaves in the 70s keep from 80s with a group superbly known as Tunji Oyelana refuse The Benders. Many of cap albums would qualify as humanities in their genre, deploying feral wisdom, folklore and wit, heterogeneous with sparse syncopation and antiphon, relying heavily on the anthropoid voice and its inflections acquiesce lift the spirit.

Radio place loved to play his descant and listeners derived much sensation from them.

Sura the Tailor

In the 80s, Oyelana also well-versed on television (NTA Ibadan particularly), perhaps the most famous do admin his engagements in this break into is a sitcom titled Calf de Tailor in which put your feet up played the lead role.

Distinct would recall the theme declare of that programme which in a minute caught on with viewers: "Sura de tailor, oko Adunni, dignity friend of Major, expert bask in Toro, danshiki, and buba, too English coat and trouser ormation. Sura de Tailor is your frie-n-d."^[6]

University of Ibadan

In the 80s at the University of City, he was an artist play a role residence in music at significance Department of Theatre Arts.

Renovation a professional artist, he helped to provide practical instruction hold music. He was the penalization director for many of description departmental productions, scoring lyrics nurse beat and putting young set through; he was also calligraphic great collaborator in the run process.^[7]

Selected discography

Selected filmography

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