In 1964, he released his first hit single with his newly formed Modern Aces.īorn John Akintola Ademuwagun, Roy Chicago was a musician and band leader who played the highlife featuring talking drums in his style. He immersed himself not only in the highlife genre of the time, but became enthralled with blending Motown with highlife. Orlando Julius became professionally involved in music at the early age of 19 as a bandleader and a “top ace” with Eddy Okonta’s popular band in Lagos. Some of his hits include Ndi Aghogho Erike, Ezi Omlime Amaka / Kwuo Ka Ira, Wealth Not By Force, Ndi Ntise – Omelum Me Dike, Akalaka, Onye Ilo Mu Agbazina, Niger City Social Club of Nigeria, Ora-Abueze / Elibe Onye Ofogeli / Amam Bu Aghugho. Mubby Ibe, an Onitsha born musician consistently produced series of popular LPs for close to two decades. In 1981 he was awarded a gold disc for the LP Onu Kwulonjo. His most popular hit was the 1984 Osondi Owendi. His career spanned over 40 years, and he is one of the most well known Igbo highlife musicians.

In his career, Osadebe went on to write over 500 songs and half of these songs were released commercially. He gradually worked his way up to releasing his first album in 1958. Often referred to as just Osadebe, he started his career performing at nightclubs in Lagos.

Now a cleric, Kris Okotie had a highly successful music career with his peers such as Dizzy K Falola, Jide Obi, and Felix Liberty and they stimulated the emerging music industry of Nigeria. Yusuf won may hearts with tracks like Asa N’beiyele Sere, Jamba Ole se Okuta, Se Eni Kosiĭebuting with I Need Someone, an album that took the industry by storm, Kris Okotie’s genre of music was refreshingly different and so were his lyrics. Born a Christian and as Joseph Olatunji, his mid-life conversion to Islam boosted his career in Yoruba music. Olatunji was a sakara drum player who popularized the sakara music genre.

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