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| photo credit: Oritsefemi wikipedia page |
In 2006 when Oritsefemi Majemite Ekele (born January 5, 1985) ,
also
known by his stage-name Oritsefemi broke away from Junglist Boys- a group of himself
and Chibudo known as Chi-Junglist- to pursue his solo carrier as a
reggae-afro-beat artiste, little did we know that the man whose musical journey
started from Cherubim and Seraphim Church in a very congested place called
Ajegunle in Lagos would still be garnering implausible relevance and soaring
stardom by now when many of his peers have been swallowed up by early oblivion.
This exceptional feat can be said to have been accomplished due to his unabated
perseverance in pursuit of his musical dreams and strong support from the
Nigerian ‘ghetto-boys’- his greatest fans.
Amidst many moments of
trial and tribulations as a then budding street singer in a feisty fight for
survival, also helped by his sonorous voice and perfect understanding of the
street language, Musical Taliban (his self-given pseudonym), now a master of
his craft has written himself in the heart of many Nigerians not only as one of
the existing hip-hop artistes whose musical dexterity has a noticeable modicum
of common sense, tangible social concern and moral preaching, but also one of
the possible heirs of Fela Anikulapo
legendary musical spirit, afro-beat.
