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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by tammyf: 2:22am On Oct 21, 2022 |
Simplemeeeee:I hv d mix tape already ...play it when I'm cleaning up my house. |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 3:10am On Oct 21, 2022 |
TheOgaBoss: His? |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by BraniacX(m): 3:18am On Oct 21, 2022 |
naptu2:i downloaded this recently |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by Ykc2(m): 4:00am On Oct 21, 2022 |
So Alex zitto was a reggae musician then?Well since guys also called davido and wizkid hip hop artists |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:03am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:04am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:04am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:05am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:05am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:07am On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 5:24am On Oct 21, 2022 |
naptu2: The first few seconds of the video above was from Lekki Sunsplash. I have written a lot about Lekki Sun-splash on Nairaland. That series of concerts was instrumental to the growth of Nigerian reggae in the 1980s and early 1990s. I often went to the Bar Beach during holidays in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but sometime around 1984 there was a new beach that everybody was talking about. It was Lekki Beach. We missed our way the very first time we went there. There was almost no other cars on the road. You could see the water mirage at the point that the road met the horizon. There was bush on both sides of the road. We drove for an eternity until we came to the end of the road (they hadn't finished constructing Lekki Expressway at that time). We saw workmen and asked them where Lekki was. One of them asked us (in Yoruba) whether we were looking for the place that people "took breeze" or the place that they "ate beans". I understood that they were asking if we were looking for the beach or the prison. We said that we were searching for the beach and they told us that we had passed it. The road leading to the beach had not been constructed, so you had to carry your food warmers and coolers and walk a long way through the bush and over beach like sand before you got to the beach. It seemed like suffering. Anyway, sometime around 1986, Toyin Munis created a concert called Lekki Sunsplash. It was inspired by the Reggae Sunsplash concerts in Jamaica. The NTA often showed clips of Reggae Sunsplash back in the early 1980s. People from all over Lagos thronged the Lekki Beach in December 1986 to see some of the biggest musicians in Nigeria perform. However, Lekki was not developed back then and many of them had to walk all the way from Lekki Beach to Sandfill in order to get home. It was like Exodus, the movement of Jah people. It was at the 1993 edition of Lekki Sunsplash that I saw Lagbaja for the first time. Nobody knew who he was. Everybody was waiting for Fela to perform and this masked man took to the stage and was singing, "The way, the way, the way way". People were angry and they threw bottles at him. He had to flee from the stage. They brought ************ (I can't type his name because the spambot will ban me) back on stage to calm down the crowd. One of those gossip magazines got a list of Fela's conditions for performing at Lekki Sunsplash and it basically went viral. The conditions included a certain level of quality for the sound equipment, he and his band would be transported to the venue in the morning and they would be fed breakfast and lunch, he must be the last person to perform, he must be paid upfront, etc. The contract stipulated that he could decide not to perform if any of the conditions was breached. All the biggest reggae musicians, including almost everybody I listed on the first page, performed at Lekki Sunsplash. |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by okocha55: 8:28am On Oct 21, 2022 |
Nigerian reggae music is criminally underrated, I like the sound far better even than Jamaican. As an Oyinbo growing up in the US I listened to African American music my whole life, and recently discovered Nigerian music from hearing a song by William Onyeabor in a skateboarding video. There's just something about the sounds coming from Africa that sound so much more raw, pure, and great than the US afro sounds. The absolute sickest beats I've ever discovered are in Naija reggae. It's strange in the year 2022 so much of the music isn't even on YouTube yet. I listened to electronic music / EDM / house for nearly 20 years and once I discovered Nigerian music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, it's taken up nearly all of my listening now over the past couple of years. Sadly Naija doesn't produce music like this anymore and maybe one day I will run out of sounds to discover Recently I have purchased these records and uploaded them to YouTube below, cannot believe I was the first to upload these complete albums! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6FWJ2TLa7M&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=8&t=1439s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bpCmAx9MM&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=25&t=460s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOoieychuRo&list=PLx9biClwTa9c_d0MgD3X-vAqtDVuBBhqz&index=24&t=1199s |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sammugbes(m): 8:36am On Oct 21, 2022 |
Oga nice collections, but you still remember Lt shot gun? |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 8:41am On Oct 21, 2022 |
sammugbes: Yes. I posted his song on this thread. https://www.nairaland.com/5683387/victor-olaiya-dead/2 |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by richiepolymer(m): 11:57am On Oct 21, 2022 |
Nostalgic moments. I’ve been looking for some of these records. Indomie and Gen Z children won’t appreciate these. |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by BalticGold: 12:18pm On Oct 21, 2022 |
Kasssandra: That your parents did not like them does not mean they had no massage. Music then was used as a voice of the oppressed and speaking against the injustice of the day. 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by category(m): 1:59pm On Oct 21, 2022 |
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Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sammugbes(m): 3:20pm On Oct 21, 2022 |
Yes boss, thanks saw it already, you remembered when he collabo with 2 artist for one song, I forgot sef. naptu2: |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by Mryacks: 6:26pm On Oct 21, 2022 |
naptu2: Oh this just made me remember my late uncle |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by okooloyun1(m): 2:08am On Oct 23, 2022 |
naptu2:Thanks for these compilations of oldies songs. I was always emotional watching this particular song on NTA. My dad also had the audio cassette Happy Birthday by Evi Edna Ogholi was a very popular song in any birthday party. |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sharone21(f): 3:29pm On Oct 23, 2022 |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by GudluckIBB(m): 3:33pm On Oct 23, 2022 |
sharone21: yea, heard so too, her name was peggy Imana Curtis 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by sharone21(f): 4:29pm On Oct 23, 2022 |
Many musicians and some have already been mentioned. Thanks Naptu for all these for us to remember our history. Others: Yvonne Maha Trybesmen Stylplus Ekwe Junior and Pretty Tosin Jegede and her contemporary from Edo State Funmi Adams Funmi (Fuji music) Dan Maraya Jos Oliver de Coque Shina Peters Pasuma Obesere Tina Onwudiwe Dizzy K Falola Seyi Shodimu Victor Uwaifo Bright Chimezie Orlando Owoh One Igbo guy that sang Belinda eh.... in USA Mike Okri Marvellous Benji Banti banti( Albino) Chris Okotie Dorothy Ifudu Dr Alban Adewale Ayuba Sade Adu Daddy Showkey Muma Gee Stella Monye Yinka Davies Panam Percy Paul Mode 9 Sasha P Tunde and Wunmi Obe 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 5:23pm On Oct 25, 2022 |
This is an example of what I was referring to. This is the 1994 edition of Lekki Sunsplash. Sonny Okosun was performing on stage, Fela was in his tent (you can see little Seun Kuti and Dede Mabiaku in the tent) and you can hear the fireworks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1uUj7WOaew naptu2: naptu2: naptu2: |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by ISTP: 7:01am On Nov 05, 2022 |
naptu2: Amen oo. Amen! Just read your update on your diary. Let me be the only one to say "AMEN". 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by naptu2: 4:10pm On Nov 09, 2022 |
Juju Songs Of The 1970s, '80s and 1990s https://www.nairaland.com/7424073/juju-songs-1970s-80s-1990s 1 Like |
Re: Nigerian Reggae Music Of The 1980s And 1990s by ruffhandu: 11:22am On Oct 20, 2023 |
sharone21: I am looking for an unpopular raggaeton artist (perhaps he released only one album), I only loved one track that part of the the lyrics is something like 'anwunta kwe ka mmadu di ndu rahu ura abali...' (moquito allow humans to sleep at night) 'anyi na-ata afufu, n'obodo a goziri, Chukwu ga enye any onye g-edozi obodo anyi..' (we are suffering in a blessed land, God will give us who will fix our country). he name was Chukzy Moses or something (dunno if I spelt it ok). I need that song to reconnect with my youthful days. 1 Like |
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