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Pa Tunji Oyelana - Nigerian Old Schools Singlalong @ 85 Birthday GOLDEN OLDIES ARTIST PROFILE : TUNJI OYELANA AT 85 Tunji Oyelana ( Age 85, born October 4, 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician, actor, folk singer, composer and once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 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. Oyelana is credited with having sold the most albums by Nigerian High Life musicians. In 2012, he released A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79 , an album from Soundway Records. Apart from Fela Kuti, Ebenezer Obey, and King Sunny Ade, Oyelana is regarded as one of the most played Yoruba musicians. He and Soyinka composed I Love My Countryand, in 1996, were both charged with treason and forced into exile by Sani Abacha. Oyelana, the leader of The Benders, currently lives in the United Kingdom. Legend. For more exciting content: Make sure you're keeping Up With All Of My Social Media platforms: Instagram:   / kbjojo1   Twitter:   / kbjojo   Facebook:   / kbjojo   TikTok: https://tiktok.com/kbjojonewsbox Contact us via: nujenews @ gmail. com