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Orlando Julius
Sign in to saveAlso known as Orlando Julius Ekemode, Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode
Nigerian musician
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Vinony's link graph records 38 inbound references to Orlando Julius, and connects out to Ikole, Louis Armstrong and International Standard Book Number.
It is catalogued under topics including 1943 births, 2022 deaths and 20th-century Nigerian male singers.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Nigeria
- Active from
- 1943-09-22
- Active to
- 2022-04-14
Discography
- Dance Afro-Beat1984
- Disco Hi-Life2014
- Jaiyede Afro2014
- Love Peace & Happiness2017
- Ololufe2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 61,302
- Total plays
- 293,449
Tags
Orlando Julius (born Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, 1943) is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is credited as one of the first musicians to fuse US R&B into traditional highlife music, creating his own influential Afrobeat sound during the mid-‘60s. From his time playing in the USA during the 1970s onwards, he is credited with bringing African music to a broader audience and famously co-composed the song ‘Going Back To My Roots’ with Lamont Dozier. He s
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Orlando
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Nigeria
- Place of birth
- Ilesa
- Place of death
- Lagos
- Occupation
- musician
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Orlando Julius, Montreal 2016-07-06 - 081.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1943-09-22
- Commons category
- Orlando Julius
- date of death
- 2022-04-15
- start of work period
- 2022-00-00
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