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Comfort Omoge
Comfort Omoge was a Nigerian musician known as the queen and chief exponent of Asiko music, a traditional African folklore music of the Ikale people in the Western State of Nigeria. Married to the traditional ruler of Igbodigo who also encouraged her music passion; she performed with her 15-17 member band, named Aboba Asiko, who used mostly traditional percussive A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excl ... instruments, while she sang a modern interpretation of traditional folk songs of her people. In 1976, she released her first album ''Orogen rogen''. In 1980, while signed with Afrodisia/Decca Records, she released the album, ''Irore re yi ran,'' where she infused Christian teachings in her traditional music''.'' She died in 1999. References Nigerian musicians ...
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Okitipupa
Okitipupa is a Local Government Area in Nigeria and part of the Ikale-speaking nation in Ondo State. Okitipupa Local Government headquarters is located in Okitipupa township with a university, Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH) which commenced academic sessions in 2010–11. Ìkálè or Old Ìkálè Local Government is part of the Yoruba tribe of Ondo state in Nigeria which was originally Ikaleland and combination of the present Okitipupa Local Government and Irele Local Government before the two local governments were split into two namely: Ìrèlè local government and Okitipupa local government. Name "Okitipupa" town was formerly known as Ode-Idepe. The name "Okitipupa" is originated from the elevation of the town, migration of the people to the virgin area and the red colour of the soil (''pupa''in Ikale and Yoruba dialects). ''Okiti'' means "hilly land". Okiti-pupa is derived from the Ikale Yoruba word ''okiti'' (hilly) and ''pupa'' (red) whic ...
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Western State (Nigeria)
The former Western State of Nigeria was formed in 1967 when the Western Region was subdivided into the states of Lagos and Western State. Its capital was Ibadan, which was the capital of the old region. In 1976, the state was subdivided into three new states, Ogun, Ondo and Oyo. The region now consist of nine states, across three geopolitical zones: Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, and Oyo States. Oyo State is the largest state in South West. It covers an area of 28,454km2. Lagos Lagos ( Nigerian English: ; ) is the largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper. Lagos was the national capital of Nigeria until December 1991 f ... can be said to be the most prominent state with over 20 million people residing therein. See also * 18-1900s Yoruba country References Further reading * Former Nigerian administrative divisions States and territo ...
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Percussion Instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Excluding zoomusicological instruments and the human voice, the percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments.'' The Oxford Companion to Music'', 10th edition, p.775, In spite of being a very common term to designate instruments, and to relate them to their players, the percussionists, percussion is not a systematic classificatory category of instruments, as described by the scientific field of organology. It is shown below that percussion instruments may belong to the organological classes of ideophone, membranophone, aerophone and cordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as the timpani, snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, belonging to the membranophones, an ...
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