Nigerian Musician & Saxophonist Orlando Julius Is Dead

 Veteran highlife musician, Orlando Julius, has died at the age of 79. Julius’ death was announced in the early hours of Friday by his wife, Latoya Ekemode. She said that Julius passed out in his sleep on Thursday night.

“Yes, my husband passed on late last night, there was no indication that death was coming, he was not ill, he only slept and died in his sleep,” she said.

The ‘A dara, a dara’ singer’s death was also confirmed by music promoter, Bimbo Esho.

Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius or OJ Ekemode, was a Nigerian saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with afrobeat music.

An indigene of Ijebu-Ijesha in Osun State, Ekemode was born in 1943 in Ikole, present-day Ekiti State to a family of merchants. In the 1950s, he moved to Ibadan after the death of his father, where his music career took flight.

In 1973/74, he moved to the United States, where he formed a band Umoja and would play with other bands, including Hugh Masakela in the 1970s.

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Rasheed Alao

What is the benefit of coming to this world when at the end, one would still leave it ðŸ˜­ðŸ˜­. I pray his soul rest well ðŸ˜­ðŸ˜­ may God give Latoya the fortitude to bear the loss ðŸ˜­
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Adeyinka Johnson

Take it or live it we must all live dis sinful world

Titi Gilbert

Edeson, ds man died on Thursday not Friday pls. May his soul find rest Amen
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