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Orlando Julius
Sign in to saveAlso known as Orlando Julius Ekemode, Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode
Nigerian musician
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Nigeria
- Active from
- 1943-09-22
- Active to
- 2022-04-14
afrobeathighlife
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
afrobeatnigeriaafricanworldfunk
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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