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Musician: Oludele Olaseinde
Location: Toxteth, Liverpool
Instruments: guitar, piano; composer, producer
Music: Nigerian/ Yoruba
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HOW I CAME TO THIS MUSIC听听听听听听听听听听WHERE I PLAY听听听听听听听听听听A FAVOURITE SONG |
  
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 听听Listen (7'19) to an audio feature recorded at Oludele's home in Liverpool. Presented by Rita Ray. (Broadcast on Radio 3: 29/1/02)
听听Listen to Oni Dodo played by Oludele Olaseinde, with his daughters Yetunde and Seun on vocals and Emilio on sax.
A favourite song:
This song is called Oni Dodo, which is about young people who sell things when they come back from school. They have to go out and sell maybe oranges,hot food, so they can earn enough money for their school fees or to keep the family going. Dodo is a plantain, like a fried banana, and moi-moi is made from ground beans, which is mixed with ground tomatoes, onion and pepper to make a very nice kind of bean cake. So the song is called Oni Dodo Oni Moi-moi, and it's about when the young people come out to sell their wares, and instead of that they get up to a bit of mischief.
In the middle of the song it becomes almost like a Gospel tune, when we say '... mine is great, mine is victorious'. So that is what we've put into the middle of the song, which you will hear when we get there, it's very nice.
I first heard this song when I was very young. It's a folk song that is very popular in Yorubaland, in the Western part of Nigeria - everybody knows it. We'll be playing you an acoustic version. My daughters Yetunde and Seun are going to sing, and we have our good friend Emilio on saxophone to join us. We play the same song in our band with a full big-band arrangement. In fact the song is so popular that Fela Kuti did a version as well. [Fela Kuti was the founder of ' Afrobeat' in the 50's and '60s.]
Oni Dodo is a song that you can hear anywhere. You can hear it along the streets, at the bus stops, in the market -- children will sing it in schools. We have so many beautiful folk songs. When we play this music it makes us very happy. All the children enjoy the songs -- including the youngest one --he knows all these songs off by heart.
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