Orlando Julius: 15 things to know about late saxophonist

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Veteran highlife musician, Orlando Julius, is dead.

9 – He recorded his first single, ‘Igbehin a dara’, with the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1960.

10 – He formed Modern Aces in the early 1960s and incorporated American Pop, R ‘n’ B, and Soul into African music.12 – Julius moved to the United States in 1974 where he produced an album with Hughes Masekela, titled: ‘The Boy is Doing It.’Roots: The Second Generation,considered him “the last of Nigeria’s titans in the highlife music genre.”wrote that he was “one of the heroes of Nigerian music”, a “master of the simple, stomping riff” with a significant influence on afrobeat music.

 

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