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isale_gan2, that was an impressive attempt at paying homage to the well-deserving departed icon of fuji music. Kudos and more power to your elbow.

Thanks. I love the guy. Great musical legend, and he's one of our very own!

Actually, I had posted 2 sets of lyrics, but spambot banned me, and I just realized now that the 2nd one did not post. I think you'll like it.

I will re-post shortly.

Back in the days when i use to ko mo le,

Damn he'll be missed TOO TALENTED

does anyone have the census video or the video he had with a spacecraft going to space

boda ewa kami anti ewa ka mi _{or is that salawa?}

Boda ewa kami was sang by Kollinghton Dis Guy!

uh oh!!.my lachrymal glands are up and running .R.I.P Barrister.

olawonder:
OMG! I was listening to Fantasia Fuji (my favorite of Alhaji Agba's) and I was saying to a friend that the next time he visits the UK, I'll find him, I wanted to thank him for the message in part 2 of 'Fantasia Fuji' where he sang abouth 'death'. Very ironic, hmn,  may his soul rest in peace. As well as I love his songs, I really liked him as a person, he had always inspired me through his career. I have listened to the following albums (find any one of them to buy, great songs):

Do you by any chance remember which of his albums contains the song about "iku" and his mother and father's passing?  I want to do the lyrics but only have a short clip of 3mins of that song.  Thanks.  It goes something like:

Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi rajiun

Iku ti o wole tomi lo koko pa mother mi
Iku to ri'pe wo lo pa baba mi
O di jo keji ko lo ya o ya o

Tale bu ke kuwa n gba n kuruma
Talo polo asara eluwa n deruba
Tani iku wa n lemo nigba ti o so'ogun fun

To je lojo tobatiya loya
Mo n je'un l'owo o Je ki n son'wo
Je n sure wo yara ki n dagbere fun darling mi
Ko si excuse ti'ku ba ti de oooo

I tried to post this a day and half ago, but it didn't post.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXS_kPJo5Ds&NR=1

Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria, cont.

Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o
Omo egbado won ma n ma gbafe o

Ilaro ni mo gba de Aiyetoro o
Ilu Haji Lasisi
Omo Kuledo mi o Isola
Omo Adelakun mi o Isola
Oko Afusatu mi o oko Risi o
Lasisi omo Kuledo Aidi
Ogogo go ku ori
Oku oloye oku lejo
Oku leko jan da akano ku lejo
Won she bi kuku lo ku
Barrister Prince Awo Haji Commander mi Ayinde

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Mo gba be o di Ikorodu ile
L'abe Kabiyesi oba
Oba Oyekusi Salawu oba olola
Ayongunrin mi omolola
Haji Bayiti lahi mi ololola

N'Ikorodu eluku mede
Eluku mede mede
Eluku mede mede

Omo Elu
Omu Elu
Omo eluku me
Omo eluku me . . . de mede mi o
Kirumole wafeleja
Omo akeni gbo
Keru o ba ara ono
Omo asale jeje bi eni wipe ko r'obinrin ri
Age mo ni koriji koriji koriji
Koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji ese
Ko sa kodu o pe meji
A be be luku mede
Ejoji ko e gbo do wo
Ejoji to ba foju wo oju e nla ti fo

Akinju Ijebu ti fo ko eja pena
E toju Bola Oyekuti mi olola
Awo ki telumi jewu mi olola

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Omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
Nle omo akenigbo
Nigbo
Keru o ba ono
Ono
Omo asalejeje
Jeje
Bi eni pe ko r'obinrin ri
Rin ri
Ade mo ni kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Ko sa ko du won pe meji
Meji
Aje felukumede
Mede
Ejoji kan o gbo do wo
Woo
Ejoji to ba bo ju woo
Woo
Oju e lan ti fo
Ti fo

Gbogbo omo Ikodu oriwu e to ju alhaja jarianatu mi olola
Jarinatu oyinbo alaso
E to ju aya baba ibeji
Baba loke mafi ku yawa e sa amin o

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Mo gba be o di Odogbolu
Odogbolu lo de Ikenne
Ilu Obafemi Awolowo o
Ko se lu baba Ikenne
Baba Olusegun Lawyer
Baba Oluwole Director Oyinbo Eleko
Omo Ikenne Ereke ni bi o gbe so
Omo afi wure foso

-Isale Gangan

duplicate post removed

isale_gan2:
Do you by any chance remember which of his albums contains the song about "iku" and his mother and father's passing?  I want to do the lyrics but only have a short clip of 3mins of that song.  Thanks.  It goes something like:

Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi rajiun

Iku ti o wole tomi lo koko pa mother mi
Iku to ri'pe wo lo pa baba mi
O di jo keji ko lo ya o ya o

Tale bu ke kuwa n gba n kuruma
Talo polo asara eluwa n deruba
Tani iku wa n lemo nigba ti o so'ogun fun

To je lojo tobatiya loya
Mo n je'un l'owo o Je ki n son'wo
Je n sure wo yara ki n dagbere fun darling mi
Ko si excuse ti'ku ba ti de oooo

In "Fantasia Fuji" (side 2). He dedicated the entire side 2 of that record for that song, "iku";  the record's MY favourite. He sang about 'death' in most of his records,  listen to the tribute he made for Alhaja Amudat Adunni Zubair, on 'side B' of "Questionaire"; tribute to Alhaja Simbiat Abiola in "Dimensional Fuji"; and many more. I found these two very emotional, even though I'd no idea who some of those late people were. I actually fancy listening to the side 2 of his records specifically to listen to praises of his sponsors, he was brilliant!

olawonder:
In "Fantasia Fuji" (side 2). He dedicated the entire side 2 of that record for that song, "iku";  the record's MY favourite. He sang about 'death' in most of his records,  listen to the tribute he made for Alhaja Amudat Adunni Zubair, on 'side B' of "Questionaire"; tribute to Alhaja Simbiat Abiola in "Dimensional Fuji"; and many more. I found these two very emotional, even though I'd no idea who some of those late people were. I actually fancy listening to the side 2 of his records specifically to listen to praises of his sponsors, he was brilliant!

I totally missed that my question was already answered in the first post of yours I quoted.  I feel dunce-like.  I just overlooked it cos I had only looked at the list of albums and not read the full intro in your post.  Thanks for humouring me. 

I've had some trouble posting another transcription I did because spambot keeps banning me.  But I'll post it in bits.

Also, do you have any suggestion on where to get his albums?  I don't have all the ones I want, and am restless waiting for the people back home to mail it to me in the US.  Not many selections on Amazon.com.  Actually, last time I checked, it was less than half a dozen.

triplicate removed by poster. blame spambot.

http://www.duduradio.com/index1_2_2.cfm?page=playlist2.cfm&section=fuji

check that link there few old albums in the colection

Obelomo:
Boda ewa kami was sang by Kollinghton Dis Guy!

Ouch, i keep mixing them up


But Barry is the champion any time anyway

@ Isale gan2

Better wait, Naija is where they can get his records for you,  send someone to Lati Alagbada Records, or Ogo Oluwa Kiitan Records along Agege Motor Rd, near Shogunle (am sure the head office's still there); you'll definitely get most of his oldies there. A mini classic records market used to be at Oshodi Isale, but they were moved (don't know where),  I could have guaranteed you'll get any records from them.

R.I.P.

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@Isale gan2 check out  http://victolastores.co.uk/     I came accross them searching for his oldies myself
They are in london though.  I'm sure there's got to be a place in New York too

Remii:
http://www.duduradio.com/index1_2_2.cfm?page=playlist2.cfm§ion=fuji

check that link there few old albums in the colection

olawonder:
@ Isale gan2

Better wait, Naija is where they can get his records for you,  send someone to Lati Alagbada Records, or Ogo Oluwa Kiitan Records along Agege Motor Rd, near Shogunle (am sure the head office's still there); you'll definitely get most of his oldies there. A mini classic records market used to be at Oshodi Isale, but they were moved (don't know where),  I could have guaranteed you'll get any records from them.

luckyme9:
@Isale gan2 check out http://victolastores.co.uk/ I came accross them searching for his oldies myself
They are in london though. I'm sure there's got to be a place in New York too

Thanks, all.  I also found this online store:
http://www.myafricanbargains.com/index.cfm/fa/categories.main/parentcat/20391/endrw/24

wow, those CD are less than $1 in Lagos. $7.5 what?

http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/15542-barristers-remains-buried-in-lagos

Barrister’s remains buried in Lagos
Nigerian Tribune
Written by Shola Adekola
Friday, 31 December 2010

THE remains of the Fuji music icon, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Balogun, popularly known as Barrister, who died in London two weeks ago, at the age of 62 years, was committed to mother earth at about 10.00 p.m on Thursday.

He was buried in the living room of his Isolo, Lagos home.

Among those who witnessed the burial were Alhaji Kollington Ayinla; Chief Ebenezer Obey; King Wasiu Ayinde and other top musicians.

His body was flown into the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday.

The late Fuji musician whose corpse supposed to have arrived the country for burial, according to Islamic injunction, could not be flown in until Thursday, as a result of bad weather which had disrupted flights across Europe and America.

By 2.00 p.m on Thursday, the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport had been besieged by his fans, to receive the corpse.

The remains was flown into the country aboard an Air France aircraft, which touched down at the airport around 8.00 p.m.
The corpse was, however, brought out through the cargo side of the airport into a waiting ambulance by 9.00 p.m.

May his soul rest in peace

Guidedee:
@Amalaaba there's no amount of twist or manipulation u can introduce that'll change d truth that Barry invented fuji music. With due regards sir, your arguments and explanations are simply silly and stinking. Was it not the same "were" u talked about that metamophorsed into "awurebe" of epo-akara, because he was also into "were" before "awurebe". Go and check the root of "dadakuada", "apala" and "sakara" u will find "were". there. I guess u are a K1 fan. Go and hug lion because u can't mislead us, PERIOD and I also REST MY CASE. Shikena.

Thank you, for the analysis above.
There is no controversy about who created Fuji Music, except those mischievous ones who do not want to give credit to who it is due.
Barrister produced his first Fuji album in 1966. Before then, there was no record or album of Fuji Music in Nigeria. He started in 1958 by playing Were music like others but Were was not a professional thing, it was more of a ceremonial islamic music especially during the Ramadan festive period. People like Dauda Epo Akara, Kiollington and much older people also did. But in 1966 Barrister stepped forward, changed the style, tempo and composition of his music and christened it Fuji. He relased his first album in the same year with King Sunny Ade in 1966 under the same label. 

I wonder why people say it was Were that became Fuji because Barrister had played Were in the past, but the same people do not say it was Were that became Awurebe because Dauda Epo Akara had played it in the past. If Obey and Sunny had played in the Church as choristers in the past does it mean Gospel /Church music and Juju music are the same? What about other past Were Musicians who later changed to play Apala, Sakara etc?

Barrister had been playing Fuji music before he volunteered to join the army in 1968 and also waxed albums while serving in the army, before retiring in 1976 to face Fuji Music full time. He was the one who invited Kollington to join him play Fuji music, and Kollington relased his first album in the mid 70s(I think 1974 or thereabout).

Wasiu Ayinde(KWAMI1) learnt the art and act of Fuji music under Barrister, and he had to adopt the name Wasiu AYINDE BARRISTER in order to tap into the huge goodwill, followership and love that Barrister enjoyed/enjoys amongst the public. That was from the early 80s to around 1991/92 when he dropped the name 'Barrister' after having managed to find his footing in the Fuji music industry. K1 even sang in one of his early albums in the early 80s that Barrister is the Fuji creator (where he sang, , meta meta l'Ayinde lo do mi, Sikiru Ayinde, Wasiu Ayingde, , Olorun ma pa Ayinde meteta).
KWAM1 later bit the fingers that fed him by trying to usurp the authority and leadership of Barrister, but he was called to order by those who really know his history and that of Fuji music.

There is no controversy about who created Fuji Music.

Barrister during his lifetime always said that Ebenezer Obey is his mentor, boss and adviser, while Sunny Ade is his close senior friend, and he concedes seniority to those two. 

To me, Obey and Barrister are the greatest Yoruba musicians of this generation when it comes to composition, originality, wisdom and knowledge. I have been saying this since the 80s. I am a Christian, but one thing that makes me love his talent and creativity more is the ability and ease with which he uses Arabic/Quaranic words to sing beautyfully in his songs.

Barrister's artistic composition and poetic delivery of songs with beats, rhytms and traditional dance steps to match is unrivalled. Listen to albums like Oke Agba, Ise Loogun Ise, Family Planning, Okiki, Destiny, Love, Fuji Vibration, Barry@40, Fuji Garbage, Extravagnza, Fuji Dimension, Fanatasia and you would see a rich repertoire of originality and creativity!

RIP Alhaji Agba.

mikeapollo:
Thank you, for the analysis above.
There is no controversy about who created Fuji Music, except those mischievous ones who do not want to give credit to who it is due.
Barrister produced his first Fuji album in 1966. Before then, there was no record or album of Fuji Music in Nigeria. He started in 1958 by playing Were music like others but Were was not a professional thing, it was more of a ceremonial islamic music especially during the Ramadan festive period. People like Dauda Epo Akara, Kiollington and much older people also did. But in 1966 Barrister stepped forward, changed the style, tempo and composition of his music and christened it Fuji. He relased his first album in the same year with King Sunny Ade in 1966 under the same label. 

I wonder why people say it was Were that became Fuji because Barrister had played Were in the past, but the same people do not say it was Were that became Awurebe because Dauda Epo Akara had played it in the past. If Obey and Sunny had played in the Church as choristers in the past does it mean Gospel /Church music and Juju music are the same? What about other past Were Musicians who later changed to play Apala, Sakara etc?

Barrister had been playing Fuji music before he volunteered to join the army in 1968 and also waxed albums while serving in the army, before retiring in 1976 to face Fuji Music full time. He was the one who invited Kollington to join him play Fuji music, and Kollington relased his first album in the mid 70s(I think 1974 or thereabout).

Wasiu Ayinde(KWAMI1) learnt the art and act of Fuji music under Barrister, and he had to adopt the name Wasiu AYINDE BARRISTER in order to tap into the huge goodwill, followership and love that Barrister enjoyed/enjoys amongst the public. That was from the early 80s to around 1991/92 when he dropped the name 'Barrister' after having managed to find his footing in the Fuji music industry. K1 even sang in one of his early albums in the early 80s that Barrister is the Fuji creator (where he sang, , meta meta l'Ayinde lo do mi, Sikiru Ayinde, Wasiu Ayingde, , Olorun ma pa Ayinde meteta).
KWAM1 later bit the fingers that fed him by trying to usurp the authority and leadership of Barrister, but he was called to order by those who really know his history and that of Fuji music.

There is no controversy about who created Fuji Music.

Barrister during his lifetime always said that Ebenezer Obey is his mentor, boss and adviser, while Sunny Ade is his close senior friend, and he concedes seniority to those two. 

To me, Obey and Barrister are the greatest Yoruba musicians of this generation when it comes to composition, originality, wisdom and knowledge. I have been saying this since the 80s. I am a Christian, but one thing that makes me love his creativity more his the ability and ease with which he uses Arabic/Quaranic words to sing beautyfully in his songs.

Barrister's artistic composition and poetic delivery of songs with beats, rhytms and traditional dance steps to match is unrivalled. Listen to albums like Oke Agba, Ise Loogun Ise, Family Planning, Okik[/b]i, Destiny, Love, [b]Fuji Vibration, Barry@40, Fuji Garbage, Extravagnza, Fuji Dimension, Fanatasia and you would see a rich repertoire of originality and creativity!

RIP Alhaji Agba.

This is a beautiful requiem to the originator of Fuji, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Balogun .

Dis Guy:
Back in the days when[b] i use to ko mo le[/b],

Hilarious!  I nissed this the first time around.

Sun re o , Alhaji Agba
ORUN RE Broda Ayinde

rip

i wish i can play some sikiru Ayinde songs this xmas, i'll be blasting it for me neighbours

mo le shai jo fuji ooooo

Continue to rest in peace.

Wow!  It's been a year already.  We still love you, Alhaji.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun.   

ElRazur:
Why are we all of a sudden "sad" when an elderly person dies? Let us look at the bigger picture here.

He really wasn't old though.  He was closer to middle-age, than "aged." He died before his time. . . due to health issues.

Condolences - its a reminder though that no matter who one is on this earth, that there is an end to things - “And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”:- Heb 9:27, for anyone not find in CHRIST JESUS The Lord. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” - Acts 4:12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YTfevzz_M

well ahead of his time

~Bluetooth:
omg

why is everybody dying these days ?

rip barry wonder

please every body is not dyinh

isalegan2:
I tried to post this a day and half ago, but it didn't post.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXS_kPJo5Ds&NR=1

Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, Omo Naijiria, cont.

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Mo gba be o di Ikorodu ile
L'abe Kabiyesi oba
Oba Oyekusi Salawu oba olola
Ayongunrin mi omolola
Haji Bayiti lahi mi ololola

N'Ikorodu eluku mede
Eluku mede mede
Eluku mede mede

Omo Elu
Omu Elu
Omo eluku me
Omo eluku me . . . de mede mi o
Kirumole wafeleja
Omo akeni gbo
Keru o ba ara ono
Omo asale jeje bi eni wipe ko r'obinrin ri
Age mo ni koriji koriji koriji
Koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji koriji ese
Ko sa kodu o pe meji
A be be luku mede
Ejoji ko e gbo do wo
Ejoji to ba foju wo oju e nla ti fo

Akinju Ijebu ti fo ko eja pena
E toju Bola Oyekuti mi olola
Awo ki telumi jewu mi olola

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Omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
omo eluku mede
Mede
Mede mede mede
Mede
Nle omo akenigbo
Nigbo
Keru o ba ono
Ono
Omo asalejeje
Jeje
Bi eni pe ko r'obinrin ri
Rin ri
Ade mo ni kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Kori ki ko ri ki ese
Ese
Ko sa ko du won pe meji
Meji
Aje felukumede
Mede
Ejoji kan o gbo do wo
Woo
Ejoji to ba bo ju woo
Woo
Oju e lan ti fo
Ti fo


-Isale Gangan

Hello please can you tell me the title of this song or point me in the direction where i can get it