How did you feel when he later became famous all over the world as a result of his music? They liked him a lot and they did take him out. When he was young, he moved with those who were much older than him. Not really he was not a troublemaker, he did not fight about. Was Chief Orlando very stubborn when he was a young child? After much thought, I stopped discouraging and I allowed him. But later people came to appeal to me to let him pursue his dreams, that he could also make it in life through music.
I asked him why he would take such a decision because I could not understand why he would abandon school and be singing about. What was your reaction when he chose music over education? After a while he (Orlando) moved with his band back to Lagos where he made up his mind to settle. Orlando Owoh died on 4 November 2008 and was laid to rest at his Agege residence in Lagos, Nigeria.It was here in Owo before we later moved to Lagos and then relocated back to Owo. With bands such as the Omimah Band and later the Young Kenneries and the African Kenneries International, Owoh remained popular in Nigeria, even as tastes moved to the newer jùjú and fuji styles. Orlando Owoh and his Omimah Band in 1960, and over a musical career of forty years became one of the leading proponents of highlife music. His real name was Stephen Oladipupo Olaore Owomoyela.Īs a young man, Owoh initially entered into the carpentry trade until 1958, when he was hired by Nigeria’s Kola Ogunmola Theatre Group to play drums and sing. Orlando Owoh was a popular highlife musician and band leader. She breathed her last at her hometown, Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo State, southwest Nigeria region. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that according to a family source, the deceased passed away on Thursday aged 112 years. Christiana Owomoyela, mother of music legend, late Oladipupo Owomoyela, commonly called Dr Orlando Owoh, is dead.
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