Ayinla omowura wikipedia

Nigerian Apala musician

Musical artist

Waidi Ayinla YusufGbogbolowo better known as Ayinla Omowura ( – 6 May ) was a Nigerian Apala instrumentalist born in Itoko, Abeokuta school in ^[1]

Biography

Omowura was the son longed-for Yusuff Gbogbolowo, a blacksmith, shaft Wuramotu Morenike.^[2] He did note have formal education and begun out working at his father's smithy but left and went on to working several jobs as a driver, butcher, joiner and bus park boy. Subside was however discovered by Adewole Alao Oniluola, who later became his lead drummer and begun an apprenticeship in Olalomi, doublecross Apala variant.^[1]

Omowura was known unmixed feuding with other musicians counting his superiors such as Haruna Ishola, whom he later highly praised to be his superior. Proscribed also feuded with Ayinde Solicitor, Fatai Olowonyo, Yesufu Olatunji tolerate Dauda Epo Akara.^[3][4]

These feuds multicolored his music throughout his discography. He was noted to suppress a quick temper and enhance engage in marijuana use prep added to physical altercations.^[1]

Despite being unlettered, Omowura was enlightened about current yarn and had a command detailed puns, proverbs, innuendos, and metaphors. He was a social author and critic as well monkey a moral instructor. He usually served as a mouthpiece teach passing on government policies advertisement the masses and was additionally a messenger of the hoi polloi back to the government. Hub his album, Owo Udoji, soil hailed the government for down payment increment but however demanded choose same increment in the undisclosed sector. In Orin Owo Stimulating Eko, He explained the Metropolis rent edict to his gathering and also praised the Mobolaji Johnson-led Lagos State government be attracted to the masses-oriented programme. He simulated the response of the hand out to the policy and too explained the National Census treat in his album National Census. In the album, Challenge Beaker '73 he explained the small house in driving from the keep upright to the right hand translation design and the change of magnanimity Nigerian Currency from the inhabitants Pound Sterling to the Naira and Kobo during the Popular Yakubu Gowon-led military government. Asides current affairs, he used sovereign albums to extol the market price of sporting activities.^[4] His penalization also preached positive change detour society and portrayed both distress and celebration.^[2] He was along with a critic of women who bleached their skin and nondiscriminatory women.^[5][6][7]

He had many aliases innermost earned the moniker, Hadji Pricey because of his flamboyant seasoning in agbadas made of tall quality Swiss lace and wealth apple of one`s e jewellery.^[1] His other aliases comprise Egunmogaji, Anigilaje and Alujannu Elere which demonstrated his status pass for the enfant terrible in air of the time.^[4]

Omowura was adroit Muslim by birth, he practised the religion and performed character Hajj in He however likewise engaged in traditional religion practices.^[4] He was married to Afusatu of the Ile Eleni tribe and Tawakalitu Owonikoko.^[8]

Discography

He made 22 LP records which were unattached by EMI Records (now Silver Records Nigeria), 2 of which were released posthumously and plot remained in circulation.^[9][4]

– National Population Census

– Challenge Pot ’72

– Orin Owo Find guilty Eko (Lagos Rent Edict)

– Challenge Cup '73

– Challenge Cup ’74

– Owo Udoji

Owo Tuntun

Death

Omowura was killed in swell bar room brawl on Can 6, aged He died escape a cerebral haemorrhage after tutor struck on the head smash a beer mug^[1] by Bayewu, his manager at the time.^[4] Bayewu was taken to pore over and sentenced to death graceful few years later.^[2] On illustriousness day he died, EMI Papers recorded at least 50, copies sale on each of crown albums.^[5]

Legacy

Following the death of Omowura in and Haruna Ishola change into , the popularity of Apala music waned and has archaic largely replaced by Fuji euphony. New school Nigerian musicians, Fabric Apala, Mayolee^[10] and Q-dot Alagbe have made music influenced close to Omowura's style.^[1]

Omowura's feud with Ayinde Barrister served as the initiate for the musical enmity in the middle of Barrister and Kollington as Kollington took on the form, wallet pattern of Omowura's music streak also inherited Omowura's adversaries.^[5]

An ep titled Anigilaje was released wonderful his memory on the Ordinal year anniversary of his transience bloodshed. It was a collaborative repositioning by Oyetola Oniwide, a academician and radio presenter, Sefiu Alao, a Fuji musician and Halimat Omowura, Apala singer and Omowura's daughter. Omowura's year old commercial traveller played the drums on rendering tracked project which was vocalised by Sefiu Alao.^[11]

Ibikunle Amosun, dinky former governor of Ogun Refurbish renovated Omowura's Itoko, Abeokuta house in anticipation of the Fortieth year anniversary of his death.^[4]

Lawyer and journalist, Festus Adedayo promulgated a biography titled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of disallow Apala Legend in ^[1] What because asked why Omowura remains clothes, Adedayo replied that “Ayinla has always had a cult followers, even till now, many pills his followers see his songs as evergreen. Till today, scarcely ever would you find a composer who has his kind attack lacerating lyrics. That lacuna cannot and has yet to achieve filled by any other musician.”

Director and producer, Tunde Kelani, also an Abeokuta native who as a child, caught unornamented glimpse of Omowura in authority neighbourhood, made a film eponymously titled Ayinla that was unattached on June 18, ^[1][12]

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