Babatunde Olatunji information

Michael Babatunde Olatunji (April 7, 1927 – April 6, 2003) was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist, and recording artist. Olatunji was born in...

known as Wande Olabisi Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer Babatunji Olowofoyeku, Nigerian lawyer, politician and educator Babatunde Ogunnaike, Nigerian-American...

Drums of Passion is an album produced by Babatunde Olatunji, a percussionist from Nigeria, in 1960. It was the first recording to popularize African music...

football Babatunde Olatunji (1927–2003), Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist Dayo Olatunji (born 1992), English singer Eddie Olatunji Oshodi (born...

Hussain and T.H. "Vikku" Vinayakram), Nigeria (Sikiru Adepoju and Babatunde Olatunji), and Brazil (Airto Moreira and his wife, vocalist Flora Purim). Planet...

Zimbabwean musicians made by Paul Berliner. Joseph H. Howard and Babatunde Olatunji have both suggested that mbira (and other metal lamellaphones) are...

school, he discovered the work of Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji, another formative influence. Olatunji later taught and collaborated with Hart. Hart...

and three months later met Babatunde Olatunji. He became an integral part of Olatunji's Drums of Passion, and through Olatunji met Grateful Dead drummer...

King Sunny Adé Nominated 1998 Best World Music Album Love Drum Talk Babatunde Olatunji Nominated 1999 Odu King Sunny Adé Nominated 2002 Best Pop Vocal Album...

performing it instead in 3 4 swing (2:3). Nigerian percussion master Babatunde Olatunji arrived on the American music scene in 1959 with his album Drums of...

from Drums of Passion, an album released by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji in 1960. "Shango" is the title of a Hugh Masekela track on his 2016...

continued to teach into the 1990s. Camara performed extensively with Babatunde Olatunji during the 1970s, greatly raising awareness of the instrument in the...

influences of Nigerian master-drummer Babatunde Olatunji, as a comparison of Count Ossie's Tales of Mozambique and Olatunji's earlier Drums of Passion will reveal...

teenager Tucker was an avid fan of Babatunde Olatunji, whose music she first heard on Murray the K's radio show. Olatunji, along with Bo Diddley and the Rolling...

musician Ayola - Afropop singer Ayra Starr – Afropop & R&B singer Babatunde Olatunji – drummer Babyboy AV – singer, songwriter Bella Shmurda – singer,...

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by his stage name Sanga of The Valley, is a Trinidadian drummer, Babatunde Olatunji' s student, member of the Village Drums of Freedom. Anthony Francis...

influences of Nigerian master-drummer Babatunde Olatunji, as a comparison of Count Ossie's Tales of Mozambique and Olatunji's earlier Drums of Passion will reveal...

Oskar, Reflections (Tokuma, 1999) Babatunde Olatunji, Dance to the Beat of My Drum (Blue Heron, 1986) Babatunde Olatunji, Drums of Passion (Rykodisc, 1988)...

from the Discworld series "Jin-go-lo-ba" or "Jingo", a 1959 song by Babatunde Olatunji, covered by multiple artists Jingo, Kansas, a community in the United...

cover of Babatunde Olatunji's "Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)" from Drums of Passion LP (1959) "New York U.S.A." is an uncredited cover of Babatunde Olatunji's...

D'Rivera, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Babatunde Olatunji, Ana Caram, and Rebecca Pidgeon. Chesky Records also offers binaural...

That same year, his cousin took him to see Babatunde Olatunji and his "Drums of Passion", and Olatunji's influence was so great that Michael took on...