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Sola Balogun, Lecturer, Theatre and Media Arts, Federal University, Oye Ekiti

Super Afro Soul: the music of Orlando Julius, titan of Nigerian music

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Orlando Julius Live in Concert in 2015. Photo by Kmeron/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Highlife crooner and Afrobeat singer Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode died, according to his wife Latoya Aduke, in his sleep on 15 April 2022.

A titan of Nigerian highlife had passed on at 79.

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