Iyawo asiko by orlando owoh biography

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Do I smoke Igbo [marijuana]? In Owoh's music, however, the sophisticated Caribbean-style horn arrangements of highlife were deemphasized in favor of Owoh's guttural voice, guitar, percussion, and down-to-earth lyrics. I heard a car screech to a halt; it almost crushed me to death." The enraged driver pursued Owoh into the shop, but calmed down when Owoh pointed out that he was the musician heard on the recording.

Owoh notched several hits in Nigeria in the 1960s, but his career was slowed between 1967 and 1970 by the country's civil war.

Ganja's Polytonality Blues, a 1995 reissue of earlier Omimah Band and Young Kenneries tracks. A conflict that resulted in Orlando Owoh’s sojourn to Lagos where he got motivation and inspiration from his mother. While in the group he found himself playing the tom-tom and the gombe instruments. He sang mostly in Yoruba but recorded music in English on occasion.

From then on he was often known as Dr. Orlando Owoh.

Gaining fans as a result of these initial appearances, Owoh toured the United Kingdom and appeared in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. 1960; fought on government side in Nigerian-Biafran war, 1967-70; toured Great Britian, 1972; formed Orlando Owoh and His Young Kenneries, 1975; continued to record and perform frequently, 1990s and 2000s.

Famous Works

• Selected discography
• In Great Britain Decca, 1972.
• Okiki Ojo Decca, 1975.
• Easter Special Decca, 1977.
• Money for Hand Back for Ground Shana-Olu, 1979.
• Ganja, Part 2 Shana-Olu, 1981.
• Asotito Aiye Shana-Olu, 1984.
• Message Owoh, 1987.
• Experience Owoh, 1989.
• Dr.

  It's so painful," he told Ajirire. Owoh formed his first group, Orlando Owoh and His Omimah Band, around 1960 and quickly recorded his first single, "Oluwa, lo ran Mi" ("God has sent me") on the Nigerian branch of the Decca label.

  Heard Record Played in Store

  It's a thrill for any musician to hear his or her record being played on the streets for the first time, but Owoh's experience was more thrilling than most.

  Owoh's father was a carpenter who was known around the town of Osogbo as a good part-time musician, but he greeted his son's growing interest in music with little enthusiasm.

  Blazed Through Carpentry Apprenticeship

  The family moved frequently from place to place, but Owoh sought out musicians and formed bands in each place they landed.

  He was also imprisoned for six months on cocaine possession charges. Shortly after his standard four education, he joined his father’s carpentry business as an apprentice. This has however not stopped him from being appreciated even by those who neither speak nor understand his music or its medium.

  

  Owoh's father insisted that Owoh learn a trade as a condition of being allowed to work on his music, and Owoh obediently apprenticed himself to a carpenter. he was close to his late father than any member of the family, but this however did not make his father overpamper him. In 1972 he played in London, England, at a graduation ceremony for Nigerian law students, and went on to perform on a larger bill that included South African legend Miriam Makeba.

  International school in Victoria Island for his primary and secondary education.

  After discovering his love for music, he studied the rudiments of music with renowned saxophonist, Kunle Ajayi being his tutor.

  At some point in his career, he was a comedian, band leader, compere, event planner, talent manager and director.

  SONG WRITING WHIZ

  One major part of the Lagos-born musician was his song writing skills.

  He had the ability to build a bridge that cuts across generations; this is evident in his Iyawo Asiko, a variant of Orlando Owoh’s Iyawo Olele.

  This Year, one of the tracks that got people talking about Oluwajuwonlo Edahi, popularly known as Jaywon, was written by Nomoreloss.

  His hit song Ololufe was another testimony to his excellent song writing skills.

  HE WAS OJB’S SAVIOUR

  In 2013, when OJB Jezreel suffered renal failure which led to the loss of both kidneys; Nomoreloss championed the cause of raising funds for his fellow singer.

  He stepped on toes as the chairman of the #SaveOJB committee and ensured that the funds needed for the kidney transplant was raised.

  HE DIED OF TYPHOID

  The singer was hospitalised two weeks ago after he was diagnosed with typhoid.

  According to thenet.ng, he was discharged from the hospital and was recuperating when he suffered a relapse, which led to his death.