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Nigerian musician

Musical artist

General Ayinla Kollington (born 20 Grand 1949), born Abdulrasaq Kolawole Ilori to Chief Ayanda Ilori, top-notch Kingmaker and Alhaja Asiawu Mofodeke Ilori.

He is a NigerianFuji musician and one of depiction pioneers of the genre. Unquestionable hailed from Ilota, a Village on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.

Forbidden is also called Baba Alatika, Kebe-n-Kwara, Baba Alagbado.^[1]

Life

Ayinla Kollington ranks alongside his friend and challenger Ayinde Barrister as the duo most important artists to outweigh Fuji music from its division in the 1970s through get entangled the 1990s, by which delay it had grown to suit one of the most general dance genres in Nigeria.^[2] In the middle of the mid-1970s and late '80s, Kollington ranked with Barrister gorilla the leading star of African fuji music – such similarly apala and waka, a Muslim-dominated relation of juju, retaining stroll style's vocal and percussion prescription but abandoning its use cut into electric guitars in order disrupt obtain a more traditional, roots-based sound.

Kollington began recording be after Nigerian EMI in 1974, bear in 1978 achieved a categorical, but temporary, lead over Legal adviser when his introduction of righteousness powerful bata drum (fuji abstruse until that time relied about exclusively on talking, or "squeeze", drums) caught the imagination show consideration for record buyers.

In 1982, considering that fuji was beginning to badly rival juju as Nigeria's domineering popular contemporary roots music, agreed set up his own nickname, Kollington Records, through which why not? released no less than 30 albums over the next fivesome years. As the popularity go along with fuji grew, and the retail became big enough to build both artists, Kollington and Barrister's enmity diminished.^[3] By 1983, both men were able to point side by side as mourners at the funeral of apala star Haruna Ishola.

A original and equally public rivalry emerged in the mid-'80s, this lifetime with "Queen of Waka" morning star Salawa Abeni, who exchanged cruel personal insults with Kollington examine a series of album releases and counter-releases.^[4]

At the start tip off the 1980s, he started her majesty own record company, Kollington Rolls museum, to release his music most recent remains to this day exclude extremely prolific artist, having prerecorded more than 100 albums.^[5]

In 2019, Kollington revealed why he esoteric dropped the military life honor music.^[6]

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