Tunde Nightingale & His Highlife Boys - Omo Lafiaji / Araba (Audio)

Tunde Nightingale, was a native of Ibadan, the largest city in both Nigeria and Africa. An incredible guitarist with a sonorous voice to boot, he was best known for his unique Jùjú music style, following in the tradition of Tunde King.

Born in Ibadan in the late-1940s, his contemporaries included Ayinde Bakare, I. K. Dairo and Dele Ojo. Nightingale was perhaps the first musician to become a hit performer playing juju in the post World War II period.

His particular spin on juju was known as "so wa mbe" (is it there?), a slightly risque reference to the waist beads worn by women under their clothes to make their dancing more sensuous.

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