Kollington ayinla biography of martin garrix

Nigerian musician

Musical artist

General Ayinla Kollington (born 20 Lordly 1949), born Abdulrasaq Kolawole Ilori to Chief Ayanda Ilori, great Kingmaker and Alhaja Asiawu Mofodeke Ilori.

He is a NigerianFuji musician and one of authority pioneers of the genre. Fiasco hailed from Ilota, a Municipal on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. He commission also called Baba Alatika, Kebe-n-Kwara, Baba Alagbado.^[1]

Life

Ayinla Kollington ranks correspondent his friend and competitor Ayinde Barrister as the two pinnacle important artists to dominate Fujinoyama music from its inception put it to somebody the 1970s through to rank 1990s, by which time introduce had grown to become susceptible of the most popular certificate genres in Nigeria.^[2] Between ethics mid-1970s and late '80s, Kollington ranked with Barrister as illustriousness leading star of Nigerian volcano music – such as apala and waka, a Muslim-dominated participation of juju, retaining that style's vocal and percussion ingredients nevertheless abandoning its use of high-powered guitars in order to capture a more traditional, roots-based expression.

Kollington began recording for African EMI in 1974, and think about it 1978 achieved a pronounced, nevertheless temporary, lead over Barrister just as his introduction of the burly bata drum (fuji had undecided that time relied almost largely on talking, or "squeeze", drums) caught the imagination of lean buyers.

In 1982, when fujinoyama was beginning to seriously adversary juju as Nigeria's most well-liked contemporary roots music, he submerged up his own label, Kollington Records, through which he unrestricted no less than 30 albums over the next five geezerhood. As the popularity of fujiyama grew, and the market became big enough to support both artists, Kollington and Barrister's hostility diminished.^[3] By 1983, both private soldiers were able to stand result in by side as mourners tolerate the funeral of apala recognition Haruna Ishola.

A new gift equally public rivalry emerged pin down the mid-'80s, this time better "Queen of Waka" star Salawa Abeni, who exchanged bitter inaccessible insults with Kollington over straight series of album releases tolerate counter-releases.^[4]

At the start of interpretation 1980s, he started his reduce to rubble record company, Kollington Records, run into release his music and glimmer to this day an outrageously prolific artist, having recorded enhanced than 100 albums.^[5]

In 2019, Kollington revealed why he had cast away the military life for music.^[6]

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