Batile Alake * Mo Eun Bge Are Mide * Waka Music of Nigeria * Yoruba
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- High quality edit of the entire track called "Mo Eun Bge Are Mide" by the Yoruba music legend, Batile Alake. Originally released by Leader Records of Lagos, Nigeria. Photos by Albert Garzon. (Communtiy 3)
Best ever. Since 1973. At Ibadan. Yet the best till date.
Alake popularized the Islamic-inspired, Yoruba genre by playing at concerts and parties throughout Yorubaland, and was the first professional waka singer to record an album. She was most active during the 1950s and 1960s
Batile Alake was born in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. Alhaja Batile Alake died in 2013, aged about 78 years and buried in Ijebu Igbo in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. Her precise age was not known.
She was among the overlapping crop of female musicians in the waka genre who came into prominence between the 1960s and 1980s. These include Olawunmi Adetoun, Decency Oladunni, Adebukola Ajao Oru, Foyeke 'Ajangila' Ayoka, Ayinke Elebolo, Aduke Ehinfunjowo, Hairat Isawu, Salawa Abeni, and Adijat Alaraagbo.
She sang in a chanting mode that originated from rara, a genre usually reserved for women in Yoruba tradition. With the percussive ensemble of drumming and back-up vocals, she and other practitioners of waka succeeded in transforming the chanting mode into commercial music, taking advantage of the opportunities that the recording industry provided. While younger musicians like Salawa Abeni are credited for waka innovations in terms of fast-tempo percussion and social commentary, Alake remained unsurpassed in the consistency of her style.
Being closer to the rara tradition than her younger contemporaries also gave her music an authentic feel, in the sense that it displayed a broad vocabulary. She was able more readily to substitute a word or phrase that fitted the moment. At the same time, she did not hesitate to abridge an authentic or archaic word if doing so would enhance the sonic outcome of the movement in which the word occurred.
Mama achieving prominence in the context of commercial music recording of the 1970s, Alake also released songs that pass as “praise-singing,” dedicated to patrons or matrons who performed one favor or another for her. However, this is not a defining feature of her work. Later in the 1980s she also modified aspects of her style by deploying the three-tone percussion preferred by youthful listeners who looked to the music for songs suited to dance.
May her gentle soulrest in perfect peace. Amen.
May her soul continue to rest in peace 🙏🏽
Amin
Aameen
Thank you for the history. Good to know...
Thanks for the history
Yes the ultimate in the Yoruba music industry.
Nutritious, delicious and healthy music.. RIP big Anty😊
Having listened to some of her songs I think she's up there alongside Olatunji Yusuf and Sikiru Ayinde Barrister.
Rich content & rendering, consistency of style, conviction of purpose and self confidence.
I agree !!
The BEST Waka music up to date.Aljanah Firdausi mama!!! Ameeeeeeeeeeeeen !!!
Thank you very much for this
Posted albums of Batile Alake.
What a sweet tone from a legend mother of music,much respect,Everlast music
This is about the best Waka album I have listened to. It is so hot. The lead drummer set the pace all through. Dude was sure on something, daaaaamn so hot and pacy. He, at a point, took the breath off Alhaja. I wish I were in the studio as they made this magic. I could imagine the fire in there.
Batili Alake was an unsung hero. Her voice was second to none.
Can anyone supply the date and any background to this piece of art.
The background of this means u will be coming and coming back also means i will not die young.
Thanks Mama Batili, we love your muisc ,may Alalha bless you more
KOLOHUN OBAWA FORUN KE ALHAJA BATULI ALAKE KI OGE KI OSEKU NI ISINMI FUN.
This is music!... evergreen, meaningful, pleasant to the hear, peaceful to the soul and danceable.
very good song with pure voice ever green song still listen to 2020
Beautiful voice of our beloved mother Alhaja Batili Alake of blessed memories. God bless your beautiful soul.
Fantastic music
THE CORRECT TITLE IS "MO TUN GBE ERE MI DE". Kindly edit. Great Music
Gbenga Adeboye....a man of God. May his soul rest bliss.
The good old memories
Alhaja Batili Lake....Waka Icon from Ijebu Epe.
Please note that Alhaja Batili Alake (Mama Waka) is from Ijebu Igbo not Epe.
De vrais paroles de musique 🎵
Good natural lyrics
Thanks so much could not find the exact song , without this my grandma will go crazy about how these slng these are trash and how songs should be like this:(
Grandma is right !!!
Grandma is correct !
thanks for uploading dis music dis real music
Rip
Before now I use to think Queen salawa Abeni was the best waka artist until I listened to this madam. She very good and has a sonorous voice. Continue to rest in the bosom of God.
Salawa too acknowledged mama Batile's dexterity. She had words than Queen Salawa, but Salawa being younger enjoyed more publicity than Batile.
@@Dapada02 mama is NOT comparable to anyone, period.She was unique even despite Salawa youthfulness.Mama represented Nigeria at Festac .She was the first female Nigerian Yoruba musician to sing in London.Eve Salawa is aware of all these facts and many more.She was good,period!
What a brilliant musician she was at her triumph time. why?never sings or repeat a verse or chorus twice
Je vous apprécie bcp maman vs chanter très bien j
Very music 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Thanks for uploading
I still can’t wrap my head around that it’s a white supporting the icon 😅, i really have a question, do you understand yoruba? And how do you get to know her music?
Thanks for all you do
I was in Lagos in 1994 and met 3 men who helped me to connect with Batile. One was the manager of the Lagos Motor Inn. He took me out and I spent time with Fela kuti and also the son of Haruna Ishola. They helped make the arrangements that allowed me to share Batile's music on an international level.
@@AlbertGarzonProducer wow that’s great, I wasn’t born then 😄.
You are so lucky to have met these legends during their time, i always wished i was born earlier cause i connect with old music a lot 👏🏾
@@fujablack wll - just enjoy being young.. thats also something great !
God Eledumare bless you
The tittle is 'Mo tun gb''are mi de'' (Here I come with my entataiment)',
I think those who put the songs here are not Yorubas. That's what I can say about the wrong spelling of our language.
Mo tun gb are mi de
@@davidsallam6003 When I posted these I tried to use the exact spelling as supplied to us by Leader Records. Thanks for any corrections !
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