BACK TO AFRICA OOOO!!-THIS SISTER MARRIED A NIGERIAN MUSICIAN,ORLANDO JULIUS AND IS BACK TO AFRICA THE LAST 19 YEARS!!

ORLANDO JULIUS AND HIS BLACK AMERICAN WIFE ADUKE(LATOYA) AND OJOGBON AKINUNMI ISOLA AT INDIGENIOUS LANGUAGE MOVIES AYEYE, ONDO STATE

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cheredynmartinWhat a treat running into these two after their performance opening for King Sunny Ade....Afro-Hi legend, Orlando Julius Ekemode + Latoya Aduke Ekemode. Spent time talking about how Mama Adunni and OJ had met in Ibadan when Mama first moved to Nigeria with her then husband in the late 1950s. So when she decided to stay and later moved to Ede and then Osogbo, Mama called him and his high life band to play for the Orisas inside the groves. They performed highlife but with lyrics praising Osun in front of the Ogboni temple. You can see part of that performance here:
https://youtu.be/Qeu0COxLe4g
Latoya his wife is from Chicago and has been living in Nigeria for 18 years. She sings and dances, and is a fireball on stage! They still tour the world together💛

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Orlando Julius & The AfroSoundz At SummerStage

Dancer and singer Latoya Aduke Ekemode performs with her husband's band, Orlando Julius aand the AfroSoundz, during a City Parks Foundation and World Music Institute concert at Central Park SummerStage, New York, New York, July 3, 2016.

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FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI MARRIED 27 WIVES IN A DAY!-POLYGAMY WITH A DIFFERENCE!-FROM AFROBEATMUSIC.NET

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The Unofficial Website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music

Picture gallery of Fela Kuti’s Queens

In the West Fela Kuti, the creator of Afrobeat, is know by many as “the man who married 27 wives”. On 18 February 1978 he married the entire female entourage of his band in a ceremony conducted by a Yoruba priest. There are many sides to the group marriage, besides the sensational ones, but it would need an essay to explain them. The group marriage lasted until Fela’s release from prison in 1985. Stating that he no longer believed in marriage, he divorced the 12 wives that were still with him. Many, however, remained part of his entourage until his death.

Photographer Bernard Matussière from France took the portraits shown below of Fela’s “Queens”, as they were often called, in 1983.

All pictures, copyright, Bernard Matussière, 1983. 

			The Unofficial Website for Fela Kuti and Afrobeat Music
					All pictures, copyright, Bernard Matussière, 1983.