“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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