Iwo ore mi/Talazo Disco/O dun lati jo oh/ (My dear friend /Talazo Disco/ is fun to dance/)
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| Wasiu Ayinde Marshall |
No kid grew up in my part of Ibadan in the 80's and early 90's, without succumbing to the forceful influence of Fuji, that genre of music which dominated the streets and 'agbo-ile' of Agugu, Beere, Ayeye, Oje, Foko, Agbeni, Gege, Bode, Isale-Alfa, Popo Yemoja, Opopo Yeosa, Labo, Oranyan, Labiran, Yemetu, Ode-Aje, Orita-Aperin, Oremeji, Beyerunka, Atipe, Aremo, Oja'gbo, Oke-Are, Ayeye, Oke-Offa, and other parts of the so-called interior.
The limited media of mass communication notwithstanding - only NTA, BCOS, Radio Nigeria and Radio O.Y.O were available then - those streets bubbled with loud speakers of private sound studios (disk jockeys in their own right) who dished classical and contemporary musics, cutting across genres like Apala, Sakara, Juju, Waka, Fuji, Highlife etc., to the listening pleasure of residents and passersby.
