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Afrobeat
Afrobeat, also known as afrofunk, is a music genre which developed in the 1970s when African musicians began combining elements of West African musical styles such as jùjú music and highlife with American funk and jazz influences, with a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, and percussion.
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Apala
Apala (or Akpala) is a musical genre, originally derived from the Yoruba people of Nigeria.
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Ayinde Bakare
Ayinde Bakare (1912 – 1 October 1972) was a pioneering Yoruba jùjú and highlife musician in Nigeria.
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Bola Abimbola
Bola Abimbola is a vocalist, recording artist, and record producer from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Country music
Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.
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Dele Ojo
Dele Ojo is a Nigerian musician and performer.
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Ebenezer Obey
Ebenezer Obey (born 3 April 1942 as Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi in Idogo, Nigeria), nicknamed the "Chief Commander", is a Nigerian jùjú musician.
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Fatai Rolling Dollar
Prince Olayiwola Fatai Olagunju, known better as Fatai Rolling Dollar (22 July 1927 – 12 June 2013), was a Nigerian musician, described by the BBC as a "nationally celebrated performer." He died on 12 June 2013, at the age of 86, and was praised by past Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
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Fuji music
Fuji is a popular Nigerian musical genre.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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I. K. Dairo
Isaiah Kehinde Dairo (1930) MBE (1930–1996) was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician.
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Juju
Juju or ju-ju (lit) is a spiritual belief system incorporating objects, such as amulets, and spells used in religious practice, as part of witchcraft in West Africa.
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King Sunny Adé
Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye MFR, popularly known as King Sunny Adé (born 22 September, 1946), is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and important figure in the West African musical style jùjú.
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Kokoro (musician)
Omoba Benjamin Aderounmu, popularly known as Kokoro, (25 February 1925 – 25 January 2009) was a widely known blind minstrel from Lagos, Nigeria.
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Music of Hawaii
The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.
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Music of Nigeria
The music of Nigeria includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide.
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Muslim
A Muslim (مُسلِم) is someone who follows or practices Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and levers added to enable playing more varied and complex music which had not been possible with antecedent steel guitar designs.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
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Sakara music
Sakara music is a form of popular Nigerian music based in the traditions of Yoruba music.
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Shina Peters
Sir Shina Peters (born 30 May 1958) is a Nigerian Jùjú musician.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Talking drum
The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech.
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This Day
This Day is a Nigerian national newspaper.
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Tunde King
Tunde King was a Nigerian musician, credited as the founder of Jùjú music, who had great influence on Nigerian popular music.
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Tunde Nightingale
Earnest Olatunde Thomas (10 December 1922 – 1981), known as Tunde Nightingale or The Western Nightingale, was a Nigerian singer and guitarist, best known for his unique jùjú music style, following in the tradition of Tunde King.
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Waka music
Waka music is a popular Islamic-oriented Yoruba musical genre.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Witchcraft
Witchcraft or witchery broadly means the practice of and belief in magical skills and abilities exercised by solitary practitioners and groups.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yo-pop
Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale.
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Yoruba language
Yoruba (Yor. èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa.
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Yoruba music
The music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, Togo, and Benin are perhaps best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition, especially using the dundun hourglass tension drums.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jùjú_music
