Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / New
Stats: 3,165,572 members, 7,861,733 topics. Date: Saturday, 15 June 2024 at 06:02 PM

COVID-19 Claims Legendary Old School Nigerian Pop Star …kills Ofege’s Dream - Celebrities - Nairaland

Nairaland Forum / Entertainment / Celebrities / COVID-19 Claims Legendary Old School Nigerian Pop Star …kills Ofege’s Dream (1279 Views)

Fans Shade Binta Ofege For Her Recent Post On Instagram, See What Happened / Top Nigerian Pop Singer, Mayorkun Has Reported The Whole Davido Music Worldwide / Nigerian Pop Singer Sean Tizzle Shades Buhari With Tweet (2) (3) (4)

(1) (Reply)

COVID-19 Claims Legendary Old School Nigerian Pop Star …kills Ofege’s Dream by Atandakk: 8:33am On Apr 19, 2020
NewsmakersNG

Ololade Adeyanju/

Nigeria has lost a part of her Pop history to COVID-19 with the death of Paul Alade, a member of the Ofege Band that ruled the airwaves in the early 70s.

NewsmakersNG learnt that Alade died in Oakland, California, where he was a teacher.

Alade was the bassist in Ofege, the musical band formed by teenagers from St. Gregory’s College, Obalende, Ikoyi, in Lagos. It has remained Nigeria’s most outstanding school boys’ band of all time.

They recorded several evergreen songs including Whizzy Ilabo, Ofoge, and Burning Jungle.

The boys, who recently announced on Facebook that they were planning a comeback, were largely influenced in the 70s by the guitar solos of Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Francis Rossi, and the criss-cross rhythms of Osibisa. They were also influenced at home by the music of ‘BLO’ (Berkley Jones, Laolu Akins and Mike Odumosu), ‘Monomono’ (led by Joni Haastrup), The Funkees, and Ofo The Black Company.

The band’s debut album, ‘Try and Love’, recorded while the boys were still in high school (average age of 16) reportedly sold over a million copies. It was originally recorded and released in 1973. Due to their vibrant combo of sweet harmonies, hooks and fuzz, they would become one of the most legendary Nigerian groups of all time, with expressive sales and national stardom.

They recorded four albums before breaking up in 1978.

Ofege Band was made up of: Melvin Noks – Lead Vocals/Rhythm; Paul Alade on Bass Guitar; Mike Meme on Drums; Soga Benson – Lead/Solo Guitar; Felix Ijeh on Rhythm/Tenor Guitar; Dapo Olumide on Keyboards, and Felix Inneh was the Percussionist.

Read More:https://www.newsmakerslive.org/covid-19-claims-legendary-old-school-nigerian-pop-star-kills-ofeges-comeback-dream/

(1) (Reply)

”girls Don’t Need Big Penis This Days”- Tiwa Savage Share Her Sex Life(video). / Messi Is My Favourite Player To Watch - Ronaldo / “congrats To Myself And Bae! Can’t Wait To Be A Mummy” – Bobrisky

(Go Up)

Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health
religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket

Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 8
Disclaimer: Every Nairaland member is solely responsible for anything that he/she posts or uploads on Nairaland.