NaijaBrains: Celebrating Music On The Web

For ages, i have been a freak fan of King sunny Ade. I grew up with the Turntable, Kenwood amplifiers and Vinyl disc around me. My musical taste was fashioned in his old serenade music. I was a chip of the old block. My dad loves King sunny Ade to bits, i could remember me and him always miming his lyrics and imitating the sound of his guitar and drums. Today, i feel those moments with nostalgia as i wondered at the music that further enhanced the “father to son” love between me and my dad. until i was 18 when i had a greater collection of KSA’s Albums, my dad has alway ranked the top of the table in my household, having a total of 40 albums by the great “Golden Mercury of Africa”.

Now, i seem to have stolen most of his album from my dad for my own collection…………Too bad of me..wheewwwwww…i guess its my love for KSA. He sure doesn’t mind me doing that, to the extent that he encouraged me to take some of his old vinyl disc to copy unto Audio tapes the last time i visited Nigeria. Wonderful Dad he is…………..

The king himself is now 60!. Sunday Isola Adeniyi Adegeye who still have a hearty mother became 60 years old in the month of september, Marking more than 40 years of musical landmark and career. As i watch in excitement, the birthday bash organised for him by the governor of Ondo state “Chief Olusegun Agagu” on the 16-22nd of october, i could remember some of his old tunes conjuring in my brains. I started Miming “easy Motion Tourist” and suddenly, as if i knew what he was going to sing about………..he broke into that same song with the unique voice that has paraded the entertainment scene for decades. I was so thrilled that i shot up from the sofa in excitement.

KSA who started his 10 piece band called the green spot in 1967, broke into limelight a year later when he did a hit single in praise of Stationery Stores football club.He further made more impression in the 70’s with his tracks like “nitori awa”, “E kilo f’omode”. With the infusion of guitars and some westernernised beats, as influenced by the late “fela Anikulapo Kuti”, KSA invented the idea of standing while performing as well as switching from the use of accordion to that of a keyboard while at thesame time changing his band name to African Beats…….., A feat that shot him to more stardom in the 80’s.
With his signing a record deal with island Reords in 1982, king sunny ade gained more popularity in the western World as a prominent Nigerian Figure on the entertainment scene, hereby earning him a title of “King of Juju music” and “Minister of enjoyment” respectively.

At 60, he has so many awards to his credit, with some of his albums going platinum, to becoming the only juju musician to have toured most European countries. King sunny Ade has, through his music promote the image of Nigeria as a country to be reckon with in the world of entertaiment.

As KSA marks his 60th Birthday, i wish him Long life and prosperity. Infact Omoba aladeniyi(as i fondly call him), please long years for you oooo………i still insst, i am expecting you as a special musician during my wedding oooooo…..it’s still my dream………..
Blog readers…..watch out……….i aint joking.

As i type this, another tune flowed in my cranium……..guess what it is?

Won gbadiye ta/
won fi owo ra awo/
awo yeyin me’fa/
o fi pa okan soso/
okansoso giro giro/
okan soso erin ni se igbo/
okan soso ekun ni so’dan/
okan soso ajanaku ti mi’gbo kiji kiji/
awa ti be’gun ja, a segun egungun/
a ti bo’risa ja, awa di oria akunlebo/
a gbejo a ro fun olorun oba ooo/
baba ni baba da/
eni ti olorun ba ti da/
Ko se fi ara we/

Thats how he always does his things…….Big ups for King Sunny Ade.

Click here for more on KSA on Nairaland Forum.

For a very long time, i refrained myself from commenting on the recent story that has been making headlines in the UK. The story of a young woman (Aishah Azmi,23) who was suspended from her work as a classroom assistant because of her chosen wardrobe. I didnt really want to comment until i saw her on TV. She had everything covered up and the only visibility was a thin line with a spec of two dots ( which apparently signifies her two eye pupils).

(c)BBC

Well, i personally see nothing wrong in putting on a veil, infact i have friends who do, and i have never consider it as alienation.But people who prefer to wear clothes this way should definitely know that there are some types of jobs they can’t do. I guess someone with a tattoo, or a very big belly will have a difficult chance of getting into the Police force also. I mean, i personally won’t mind, but i’d  be uncomfortable having a UNI lecturer teaching me in a classroom with veils on. The reason been that teaching is all about communication, and how can my “supposed” UNI lecturer communicate with me without his facial expression?. I won’t be able to tell if he meant what he says or not.

 In this case, the class she was teaching are kids, it will be much more difficult trying to teach with veils on than without. Also, i believe there are other moslem women who covers their whole body and left just their face, like the pix below.

And for Christ sake, she actually was teaching at a church of England missionary school, how does she expect to be allowed to put on veils that way. If that seems somehow, can someone explain why i won’t be allowed to dress the way i like if i were a classroom assistant in a purely moslem school!