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Musician: Oludele Olaseinde
Location: Toxteth, Liverpool
Instruments: guitar, piano; composer, producer
Music: Nigerian/ Yoruba
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 听听Listen (7'19) to an audio feature recorded at Oludele's home in Liverpool. Presented by Rita Ray. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 29/1/02)
听听Listen to Oni Dodo played by Oludele Olaseinde, with his daughters Yetunde and Seun on vocals and Emilio on sax.
'It's a song about young people who sell things when they come back from school...and they get up to a bit of mischief. All my children enjoy these songs.'
How I came to this music:
My name is Oludele Olaseinde. I am the son of Chief Sagwe, who is one of the High Chiefs of the Ondo Kingdom in eastern Yorubaland. I first came to the UK in the 70s to study at Huddersfield University, and then I went back to Nigeria, and I came back here in 1993.
When I was growing up, high life music was the big band sound, with trumpets and saxophones. It was played everywhere. My father and my mother would go out to places like the Ambassador Hotel to listen to top musicians like Bobby Benson, Cardinal Rex, Jim Lawson and the great Victor Olaya who's still playing. So growing up with this big band sound, it's something so dear to me and I try to recreate it in the music we do with my band today.
I think it is important to keep in touch with my roots. In fact I found out that by coming to England you tend to value more what you have back home. My daughters came to England at the age of four and five. After a while they stopped speaking Yoruba (because we speak English at home) but they understand everything. I felt it would be very nice to keep our culture going. The Yoruba folk music is a big part of that.
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