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Michael Babatunde Olatunji detto Baba (Ajido, 7 aprile 1927 – 6 aprile 2003) è stato un percussionista e musicista nigeriano, noto per aver portato negli Stati Uniti d'America la musica tradizionale nigeriana e per aver registrato, fra l'altro, il primo album di musica africana in stereofonia.
Michael Babatunde Olatunji: Born April 7, 1927 Ajido, Lagos State, British Nigeria: Died: April 6, 2003 (aged 75) Salinas, California: Genres: Yoruba music, Apala: Instrument(s) Drums, percussion, djembe: Years active: 1959–2003: Labels: Columbia, CBS, Narada, Virgin, EMI, Chesky: Website: olatunjimusic.com
1 set 2020 · Getty Images. Three years before Rosa Parks' bus boycott, Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji protested against racial segregation in the southern states of America. He was part of a generation...
Drums of Passion is an album produced by Babatunde Olatunji, a percussionist from Nigeria, in 1960. It was the first recording to popularize African music in the West, becoming immensely successful and selling over five million copies. In 2002, it was released as a single layer stereo and 5.1 SACD by Columbia Records.
Babatunde Olatunji, the Nigerian drummer, bandleader and teacher who was a tireless ambassador for African music and culture in the United States, died on Sunday in Salinas, Calif. He was 76...
Babatunde Olatunji was a Grammy award winning virtuoso drummer, percussionist, producer, social activist, educator and recording artist who first rose to prominence in the late 1950's. Born in Ajido, a small town in Badagry, near Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, Baba was educated at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia after receiving a ...
9 mag 2023 · by Lucas Keen. May 9, 2023. Master drummer, educator, and Pan-Africanist, Olatunji influenced everyone from John Coltrane to Spike Lee in the US where he made his home, whilst in Europe Serge Gainsbourg `borrowed’ Babatunde’s beats for his 1964 long-player Gainsbourg Percussions.
