Orlando Owoh died on 4 November 2008 and was laid to rest at his Agege residence in Lagos, Nigeria. ORLANDO OWOH-EXPERIENCE (ALAGBON) ALBUM: EXPERIENCE RELEASE IN 1988. With bands such as the Omimah Band and later the Young Kenneries and the African Kenneries International, Owoh remained popular in Nigeria, even as tastes moved to the newer jùjú and fuji styles. ORLANDO OWOH-EXPERIENCE (ALAGBON) TTAIWO PRODUCTION 21.9K subscribers Subscribe 531 Share Save 150K views 1 year ago Dr. Orlando Owoh and his Omimah Band in 1960, and over a musical career of forty years became one of the leading proponents of highlife music. His real name was Stephen Oladipupo Olaore Owomoyela.Īs a young man, Owoh initially entered into the carpentry trade until 1958, when he was hired by Nigeria’s Kola Ogunmola Theatre Group to play drums and sing. Orlando Owoh was a popular highlife musician and band leader. She breathed her last at her hometown, Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo State, southwest Nigeria region. You can download Orlando Owoh songs separately here. This Best of Orlando Owoh mixtape is a compilation of Orlando Owoh’s albums and live performances. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that according to a family source, the deceased passed away on Thursday aged 112 years. Dr Orlando Owoh was a prolific and famous highlife musician who rendered a certain kind of music known as toye during his lifetime. Christiana Owomoyela, mother of music legend, late Oladipupo Owomoyela, commonly called Dr Orlando Owoh, is dead.
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