173:, producing folk music which ruled the airwaves in the 70s and 80s with a group famously known as Tunji Oyelana and The Benders. Many of his albums would qualify as classics in their genre, deploying native wisdom, folklore and wit, mixed with sparse syncopation and antiphony, relying heavily on the human voice and its inflections to lift the spirit. Radio stations loved to play his music and listeners derived much pleasure from them.
198:, he was an artist in residence in music at the Department of Theatre Arts. As a professional artist, he helped to provide practical instruction in music. He was the music director for many of the departmental productions, scoring lyrics to beat and putting young students through; he was also a great collaborator in the production process.
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Ibadan particularly), perhaps the most famous of his engagements in this regard is a sitcom titled Sura de Tailor in which he played the lead role. Many would recall the theme song of that programme which soon caught on with viewers: "Sura de tailor, oko Adunni, the friend of Major, expert in Toro,
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In the 60s, Tunji
Oyelana was one of the original members of Wole Soyinka's 1960 Orisun Masks. He calls Soyinka "Ọ̀gá", meaning "boss" in Yoruba. He was one of the original Soyinka actors travelling all over the world to interpret roles in such plays as Kongi's Harvest, The Road, Madmen and
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181:In the 80s, Oyelana also acted on television (
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519:"Un dieu au bord de la route (1994) - IMDb"
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169:He later burst out on his own as an
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604:David Kerr; Jane Plastow (2011).
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374:A Nigerian Retrospective 1966–79
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567:. The Encomium. 20 August 2015.
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151:Music and film career
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202:Selected discography
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589:4 November
442:References
35:1939-07-04
462:Daily Sun
428:Musician
125:Fela Kuti
115:High Life
549:21 March
271:Alakowe
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