Fela was fetish, KSA surrounded by evil band boys, Shina Peters is overbearing - Leon Ligan Majek.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2024
- "Music icon Leon Majek exposes the truth!
"Fela was fetish"
"KSA surrounded by evil band boys"
"Shina Peters is overbearing"
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Mr. Dale Adeyanju, may God bless you all the time. Once again delivers an excellent interview. Thank you so much. Based on the interview with Leon Ligan Majek, I can see that this man is the one who changed KSA music from being boring old school to full dance music because, if you look back, he said he joined KSA around the 1980s, and I think that is when KSA started to release a lot of beautiful dance modern music like Let them Say, Jealousy, Sweet Banana, The Child, Merciful God, and more. It is sad to hear what he went through during his time with Nigerian bands. Also, I would like to respond to comments in which you make it clear to your listeners and other Nigerians that your programme is not intended to defame or cause any problems for any band leader. I believe the majority of Nigerians who listen to your show do not believe it is intended to defame any band leader. A lesson for anyone who is thinking about joining a band is to be aware of the set contract and salary agreement and hold their band leader to that agreement. Once you have an agreement in place, get it signed and witnessed by both lawyers, and there will be no problems in the future. All of the previous and current band leaders were well aware of the situation, but selfishness didn't let them bother to inform any of their new members at the time. Also, without disrespecting anyone, I believe those band members were uneducated at the time, and they only cared about small handouts and a bit of fame because they were part of a big band with a big name, so they would be respected on the street and by the women around them. For example, the late Segun Ilori (Osa) was one of our street brothers when we were kids in Ekotedo, Iya Olobe in Ibadan Oyo State. We treated him like a god because we all knew he was playing for King Sunny Ade, one of the top bands at the time. Some of the band leaders and members you have brought to your show are people I knew as a kid, and I still remember some of them even though I no longer live in Nigeria but am enjoying your show. Anyway, keep up the good work; we enjoy your program
Thank you for your kind words! I'm thrilled to have your support and understanding. My goal is to create a platform where musicians can engage in constructive discussions, share knowledge, and learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses. By doing so, we can navigate the complexities of the music industry and work towards a brighter future for all.
Music has the power to bring hope and light, but it's also important to acknowledge the challenges and intrigues that exist beneath the surface. By addressing these issues and seeking solutions, we can empower musicians to make informed decisions and achieve lifelong fulfillment and prosperity.
Thank you again for your encouragement, and I look forward to continuing this important work.
Kudos on your submission. But I disagree (politely) with the claims that Leon changed KSA's music. He was just part of the change, not single-handedly did it. There were musicians that KSA contracted to help with his music, especially with Sweet Banana album and subsequent ones. One of them was the great Eddy Tchato (a Cameroonian half-cast). Prior to Eddy was the great Kenneth Okulolo - a well-respected composer, arranger and bassist. Those musicians declined joining the band; they were just good arrangers who did "work for hire" stint with KSA. Some even doubled as touring musician and recording musician with KSA, but never became members of the band. Then there came in a great producer such as Yomi Omidiran, who also help shaped the sound of KSA. Others will share their knowledge constructively.
Cheers!
Thank you sir for your deep understanding of the subject. I am very young, just 36, but I've listened to too many KSA works across the decades to understanding his transition. To me, before Lyon joined, KSA wasn't boring. KSA has never been boring. His contributions however transitioned his sounds to suit the 1980s and create Worldbeats effects. Like you said, the albums KSA released in the 1980s were to me, the best because they reflected the modern effects and that was why he could get 2 Grammy nominations for them while his major contemporaries didn't get that in Nigeria. Like Lyon said, KSA has excellent ears for good sounds and he could interpret vibes perfectly to his listeners.
I agree my brother 👍
@@blessingajisafe6915 What you thought was boring was in vogue that time. You play according to what people want.
The celestial church he mentioned was more off iwaya rd, via Aiyemowa st. Hence the iyana church bus stop. This was the when makoko was headquarters..
Sir good evening sir this is Mr Adewale onilu from Houston Texas thanks for my last time interview sir
I wish you could interview consolidate Sharafa. Pasuma drummer
I think agbaletu can transcribe with sub title later. But honestly this Majekodumi interview is very explosisive and shows the spirit of a determined man. He could not speak much Yoruba but was determined to work in the space. Pastor Bilewu Oshoffa too was from this guy's area where french has destroyed their yorubaness. He said what he saw and how people become disbolical because of livelihood. If people want to learn pls learn because ot still happening.
Thanks for your contributive response. I never heard the word yoruba until I moved to Lagos. In my family then we used the word Anago in lieu of Yoruba.
Great interview with a great guy. Just a correction. The first tenor guitarist, John Akpan (John Akpan Okoumo full name) hailed from Calabar, not from Congo as mentioned by Leon. When he left KSA bank, he became music producer for many English Nollywood movies.
Leon Majek played phased guitar solo on these albums My Dear, Jealousy and Let Them Say. Well done Mr Agbaletu.
And Merciful God
@@kaletamusic I THINK HE MENTIONED HIS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ALBUM 'DESTINY'
I like the way you follow up any name or information that came out of a previous interview, i believe you did this interview after Thousand wire made mention of his name, so i certainly believe you are about to go for the other guy he mentioned from Congo, John Akpan and the others. Thumbs up.
A very excellent interview Very indept and concise Bale Agbaletu you are really doing a great job. I like the matured way the interview was conducted.
These interviews are like a jigsaw puzzle. I always go back to the other band members' interviews to link up the stories and names. Mr Ligan dropped a name that nailed one of Baba Sharafa Bello's revelations. Thank you, Agbaletu. You're doing a great job.
Mr Dele you’re doing a great job, pls also get in touch with backup singers too, don’t concentrate only on instrumentalists ❤
In every aspect of life, there are some people who are promoters of success and love to the humanities! Leon Majek and Agbaletu, omo Akin Kudos to you all!
I was born and grew up in Iwaya, the Joseph Harrison that he mentioned is just a walk away, and the CC Church is Ayemowa, not far from from Queen's College. It is history, great! By the way, the Portuguese did NOT discover anywhere; you cannot discover where people already exist and live in.
It was a discovery for them because the place was not known to them before but it is not a discovery for the indegines of Lagos.
Live there too the first house after the nursery school on your left coming from the street
I still remember back then when we used to sing.... Kaleta ole, o lo ji gari lo ja.
Baba Okunade I see you o. 😂
Agbaletu! Agbaman, thank you for the work you do ❤
Agbaletu. Your show is purveyor of Nigerian musical journey. Great concept that even yourself don’t know the magnitude of. I painstakingly watch and peruse each interview.
Thank you so much sir.
The interviewee’s year references were a bit off. It’s been a long time.
Nice 👍 interview
Agbaletu, please do us a favor! You're a great interviewer. Please can you continue to do your interview in Yoruba dialect format. Conducting your interview in english format is boring. Keep up the great job brother!
That's not Dele fault. You can see clearly that Mr Lyon was more comfortable speaking English cos his Yoruba was not that good.
But I can see everyone and your very good self posting their comments in English 😊
I think you should also post your comments here in yoruba and not in english since you are a great advocate of the yoruba language.
Here we come again! Another outlandish statement. Fela was not fetish. He was a true African man, who OPENLY practiced African spirituality in such a way that harmed no one, compared to the folks in those Juju bands. Fela was my in-law so I know what I am talking about. The African pastors that wear suit and tie today, speaking polished English, and looking like stooges of Western affairs are more fetish than you would ever think of. We know them back door! I sabi Leon well well. Everyone get issues in our environment, both the artists and their band members. May God save our souls!
You're right. It was a misconceptions. We were brainwashed to believe dedication to practicing our traditional religion as being "fetish"! Whereas if you were Muslim or Christian who spending all your says in church doing whatever without a job and not contributing to the society you won't be called fetish.
@@yormeey Exactly. And some Christians and Islamic sects use some "materials" as part of the prayers. Things like candles, water, fruits, oil, incense, and so on. Those could be considered "fetish" too by those who lack knowledge of the super nature of things in relation to the divinity or spirituality.
For instance, one of Fela's old guitarist stole Fela's guitar. How did Fela find out? He found out through IFA divination. When Fela confronted the guitarist and told him what Ifa says, the guitarist was scared. Meanwhile, this guitarist is a Christian; he goes to church regularly. He later left Fela's band. Fela didn't punish him still.
Still doesn't remove the reality of the statement "fela was fetish" he believed in African traditional religion and rites and practiced it without a doubt and with publicly demonstrated conviction.
That is not a wrong thing, to be fetish is not an inherently bad thing, to be fetish is not to be bad or evil it describes a system of belief that uses otherwise understandably inanimate objects for spiritual divination and communication medium a believed higher being.
Fela was not an agnostic or atheist so therefore he was fetish and you've used semitic religions practiced in Nigeria and the glorified founders/leaders of these congregations one can argue successfully that even in their unadulterated practice of their religion elements of fetishisms present.
This man didn't call Fela a bad person.
@@Aro_Gidigba you are right to say there's nothing wrong in openly practicing one's beliefs in the public.
However, you and I know that, because of the brainwashing that's gone on unfortunately for generationsz the word "fetish in Nigeria/Africa" is generally and erroneously associated with someone who practices the faiths of our forefathers. Even if that person isn't even that dedicated.
It also about contest. Some who uses black soap for their bath, is seen as "fetish" in our disinformed society. However , someone who wears a bracelet with cross isn't considered fetish.
Now you can see how deluded we have becomed.
Educative engagement!
Oya let's go there
There are some musicians who are successful in life after leaving Fela. Tony Allen was a great example of a successful musician after he left Fela. Dele Sosimi, Emmanuel Kunnuji and Jojo Kuo are another great examples, and many more. The ones who didn't really make it were lazy and unable to play other styles other than Afrobeat; and some had cultural and economic shock when they "dropped" abroad. They couldn't cope with work outside of music. Some did security jobs and other menial jobs. Was that Fela's fault? We brought some to churches in New York in the 1990s and they could not even play church music chords. Was that also because they drank something before traveling or that they never developed themselves? Some died out of frustration and drug abuse. Nobody's fault. There are more ingenious Nigerian Afrobeat artists in the US (and in the UK) other than Leon. Some of them are Adeboye Adegbenro, Adesoji Odukogbe, Ken Okulolo, AMAYO, Tosin Aribisala, and so on! To each, his own sha! If you are disciplined and principled in life, nothing can stop you.
Well said. Most who learnt music from Fela couldn't cope with other genres when they left the band... hence they went down the drain.
@@zozoafrobeat Yep. The same with those who learnt music while in KSA's band. Some were packers before they could learn an instrument on a shallow level and then became band members. It is surprising that those were the ones who even caused trouble in the band against seasoned musicians. What a life!
The interview is very interesting.
Gareta is another name for egungun or masquerade. Children used to sing gareta jade wa woran in those days. Agbaletu Dele may be too young to know.
If all these statements about Sunny being surrounded by diabolic people, why was Sunny not affected. At one time somebody said his buttock got rotten, now this guy said he did know he was in shark infested waters until he became seriously ill.
In one of the interviews, one of the band members said KSA was fortified himself.
Sweet Banana should be 1986
He is definitely not part of the early 80s band.Mid 80s and late 80s for sure,if he wasn't part of the band that went on the Japan tour in the summer of 84.king sunny Ade disbanded the African beat in November 1984.Sweet Babana was released in 1986 Shortly before the death of chief Obafemi Awolowo in 1987.
The album he performed with shina peters is experience that is the reason he couldn't figured out the importance of Laolu Akins in shina peters albums.Uncle laolu was prominent or the pillar behind Ace, Shinamania and Dancing Time.After these albums shina felt he could do it all by himself, and that contributed to his downfall.
Sweet Banana was 1985
EASTER 1986✅.
This was followed by the album ‘My Dear’(the same year).
Where is Showboy
He had series of near death accidents that made him partly paralysed. he also had strokes. still alive tho..he needs helps.
I have said it, how KSA survived the AFRICAN BEATS would be a subject of discussion/studies in our institution of higher learning in the future. The band was immensely talented; one of the greatest band to come out of Africa and their diabolism was equally legendary. We laugh when the same people come on this thread to portray KSA IN A BAD LIGHT.
What happened to Segun Ilori Oosha
He had died a few months a go
his narration about that "spiritual attack" is obviously 'sleep paralysis' - a well known phenomenon - and his vions were just that; halluccinations! great guy tho"!
Very decent man.
Dele this is yoruba program if im not mistaken
The interviewee isn't fluent in Yoruba.
That man is missing in action lately.
Seun Kuti will reply him soon 😂
I can’t wait. That will be awesome
E go sweet
We can compare Davido and Sunny Ade in the same category, even Michael Jackson have song written ok why looking down on Davido
What has Davido gat to with this.
We talking real musicians, you are talking about Davido.
Davido ko, Goliath ni.
😅😅😅
Going by what band boys have been saying, Shiba Peters remains the worst band leader in juju music. Very crass
There are scores of others...they may not grant Agbaletu Tv interviews.
He(shina) can't even keep a band member. SSP stop progressing from 1994 due to his inability to keep his bands! No innovations because there are no people to collectively raise idea together with!
@@OGUNTI Well said.
What’s all this talk about the host sometimes using an English language.l don’t seem to understand why few Yorubas are damn racist.What is wrong if we few none yorubas enjoy the program just like you.Mr Agbeletu l would appeal to you to look for ways to include other none Yoruba artiste in your interview.As an educated journalist Pls try to expand your fan base to include us cos we are all Nigerians.Take care,that’s my personal opinion and what’s yours.
Note taken sir.
The same guy complaining about the interview not been conducted in yoruba posted his grievances
in english..
😂
Because Segun never spoke with you never made him the culprit. In fact there is a Yoruba proverb that says eni mo ni, lo se ni. For all you know, it might be one of those guitarist laughing and chilling with you. You might be accusing the wrong person.
Segun spoke with agbaletu.
He who feels it knows it. the fact that he never spoke with me wasn't the problem...the fact remains that wherever he went to harm people are revealed by the same babalawos he consulted. abo oro to fun omo oluwabi...ti oba de inun re......
Please don't bring FELA into your rubbishhhhhhhhhh discussion. You are free to talk and gossip about other things but please leave FELA out of it
Who is this fooouul? So people should not share their experiences?
Fela was a saint abi.
Why all this 'mitch match' of English and Yoruba language...Please, do things properly.
That's because his guest can't speak yoruba fluently which is understandable.
The guy is Egun from Republic of Benin
Why don't you make and post your grievances in yoruba so the non speakers will understand you?
@@tosinoloyede3119 I do speak yoruba but for the benefits of those who don't i chose not to.
@@georgemakinwa1895 we do speak egun and yoruba equally in Porto Novo also called ajase.
The most boring interview. Its should be pure yoruba.
The guy is Egun from Republic of Benin
Waka Pass instead of “dising” another man’s job
Why did you write in English and not pure Yoruba? It is possible the guy could not speak fluent Yoruba for a long time.
Did you listen to him at all? He is from Egun land, his Yoruba is not good. Can't you just see that😊
Write your complains in yoruba here..looks like you love to speak english too..