Today, August 18 2020 happens to be the birthday of the two top Nigeria’s superstars.
Social media is already flooded with messages dedicated to these two super stars. Gen. Kollington Ayinla and Alh. Ramoni Akanni has been in the fuji industry for many years and has bagged several awards respectively. Both fuji legends has paid their dues in the music industry and are basking in the success of their career.
Brief history of GENERAL KOLLINGTON AYINLA
General Ayinla Kollington is a Fuji musician from Ilota, a village on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He is also called Baba Alatika, Kebe-n-Kwara, Baba Alagbado.
Kollington Ayinla ranks alongside his friend and competitor Ayinde Barrister as the two most important artists to dominate Fuji music from its inception in the 1970s through to the 1990s by which time it had grown to become one of the most popular dance genres in Nigeria. b. Anyila Kollington, 1952, Ibadan, Nigeria. Between the mid-70s and late 80s, Kollington ranked with Barrister as the leading star of Nigerian fuji music - like apala and waka, a Muslim-dominated relation of juju, retaining that style’s vocal and percussion ingredients but abandoning its use of electric guitars in order to obtain a more traditional, roots-based sound. He began recording for Nigerian EMI in 1974, and in 1978 achieved a pronounced, but temporary, lead over Barrister when his introduction of the powerful bata drum (fuji had until that time relied almost exclusively on talking, or ‘squeeze’, drums) caught the imagination of record buyers. In 1982, when fuji was beginning to seriously rival juju as Nigeria’s most popular contemporary roots music, he set up his own label, Kollington Records, through which he released no less than 30 albums over the next five years. As the popularity of fuji grew, and the market became big enough to support both artists, Kollington and Barrister’s enmity diminished. By 1983, both men were able to stand side by side as mourners at the funeral of apala star Haruna Ishola.
At the start of the 1980s Ayinla started his own record company, Kollington Records, to release his music and remains to this day an extremely prolific artist, having recorded over 50 albums, most of which have never been released outside of Nigeria.
Brief history of ALH RAMONI AKANNI
ALH RAMONI AKANNI was born in fifty one years ago in Ogbomosho. A silent Achiever In Music Indurstry, Alhaji Ramoni Akanni Popularly Known As Raymon King (RK1)
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Alh. Akanni is one of the popular Fuji musicians who sing exactly like K1. He is one of the leading Fuji musicians in Nigeria, but he is based in Ogbomosho where he was born and bred.
He has made a great success of his musical carrer that is name reverberates across major South West cities like Ibadan and even Lagos. It is a tribute to his success story that he is fully booked for shows most of the time.
He is opportuned to take his music to London, America and France on several occassions, has 6 houses in different choice locations in Ogbomosho and 1 in the heart of Ibadan.
Happily married and blessed with lovely children.
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An Independent, profit-making and multi-award winning media company dedicated to the promotion of truth in the service of the entertainment industry in accordance with our tradition of associating with and celebrating excellence in our great country celebrate both you today as God has granted two of you the grace of yet another year. We wish both of you long life and prosperity. Amen!!!
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