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An ethnomusicologist, producing folk music which ruled the airwaves in the 70s and 80s with a group famously known as Tunji Oyelana and The Benders.!

Tunji Oyelana

Nigerian musician and actor (born 1939)

Tunji Oyelana
Born	(1939-07-04) July 4, 1939 (age 85)
Nationality	Nigerian
Occupation(s)	Singer, actor, lecturer

Tunji OyelanaListen^ⓘ (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician,^[1] actor, folk singer, composer^[2] and once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.

Tunji Oyelana is a native of Nigeria, and is of the Yoruba ethnic group.

Tunji Oyelana (born 4 October 1939) is a celebrated Nigerian musician, actor, composer, and folk singer, known for his significant.

An ethnomusicologist, producing folk music which ruled the airwaves in the 70s and 80s with a group famously known as Tunji Oyelana and The Benders.

Tunji Oyelana (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician, actor, folk singer, composer and once a lecturer at the University of.

Tunji Oyelana is described by the folks at Soundway Records as “equal parts singer-songwriter, actor, bandleader, dramatist, comedian and.

Tunji Oyelana is of the Yoruba ethnic group and is a native of Nigeria. Most of Tunji Oyelana's songs are in Yoruba. In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Nigeria's first and only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Wole Soyinka, to record a musical album that satirized the corruption of the Nigerian political elite.

He was the musician for Stéphane Breton's 1994 film Un dieu au bord de la route.^[3] Oyelana is credited with having sold the most albums by a NigerianHigh Life musicians.^[4] In 2012 he released A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, an album from Soun