Music in Nigeria

Osita Osadebe

Stephen Osadebe Osita; musician credited with contributions to the growth and development of highife as well as re-inventing the music. Osadebe was the first highlife musician to bring in a Cuban…

Brymo

Ashimi Olawale; songwriter and rapper, known as Brymo. An only child, Brymo grew up in Okokomaiko, Lagos, a fairly nice neighbourhood and a mixed environment of peoples in different economic…

Majek Fashek

Majek Fashek; real name, Maekodunmi Fasheke was the Nigerian Reggae musician and rastafarian who rode the musical scene in early 1990s. Majek Fashek, born in Benin City in 1963 took motivation…

Christopher Olusola Kolade

Christopher Olusola Kolade; described by his biographer as a subject that embodies the healthier, sterner, firmer fibre of the nation’s soul, Kolade was from 2002 to 2007 the Nigerian High…

Onyeka Onwenu

Onyeka Onwenu; legend of Nigeria’s music industry and multiple award-winning songstress, fondly called the Elegant Stallion. Onyeka was known also to a generation of Nigerians as a…

Ekwueme Lazarus

Ekwueme Lazarus; Nigerian musicologist, an alumnus of Royal College of Music, London and the first professor of music made in Nigeria, University of Lagos. Laz Ekwueme was born January 28, 1936…

Christian Essien Igbokwe

Christian Essien igbokwe, popularly called Nigeria’s Lady of Songs. Some of her tracks include Give Me a Chance, 1980; Ever liked my person 1981; Taking My Time, 1986; Hear The Call, 1990;…

Victor Uwaifo

Victor Uwaifo; Nigerian musician. With his first album which was released in 1960 and titled Akugbe/Okhorhornu mu me” (meaning “unity is strength) Victor enjoyed an early success. In 1966,…

ONYIA Zeal

Onyia Zeal; famous trumpeter with records of spectacular performances. Zeal fine-tuned his budding skills under the tutelage of Bobby Benson of Nigeria and Emmanuel Tetteh Mensah of Ghana. After…

RHODES Steve

Rhodes Steve; Nigerian Classical musician. Rhodes’ original compositions, like Serenade for an Occasion, Walk Lightly, Ijapa-Pantomime, Why am I Free? and God’s Beauty, established his…