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| Orlando Julius Ekemode (from back cover of the festival's magazine) |
Finland's apex annual multicultural event 'The World Village Festival' for this 2015 will be kicking off next weekend 23.-24.5. The focus for this year is Africa
and the Middle East.
AfrobeatFinland will
be bringing you coverages from the event, we will bring you
interviews like one with one the pioneers of Afrobeat and a standing
guru of Afro-pop, Orlando Julius Ekemode, yes you heard right,
Orlando Julius is one of the major features of this year's festival.
Other African acts
expected are the Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, Aziza Brahaim of
Western Sahara, Guinea's Ba Cissoko, and many others.
So you be on the
watch out!
Orlando Julius
Ekemode
The biography of
Orlando Julius reads like a kaleidoscope of who is who in the
mainstream Nigerian and international music scene.
He is one man who
met and collaborated with an enviable list of top notch artists from
around the globe, some include:
- Ademola hasstrup
- Eddie Okonta
- IK Dairo
- Fela Kuti
- Hugh Masekela
- Ray Charles
- BB King
- Temptations
- Smokey Robinson
- Ohio Players Sun Ra
- Miles Davis etc, etc.
follow this link to find out more........
Orlando Julius contributed in penning the making of the 1970s international disco hit 'Going Back to My Roots' one of the biggest disco hits of all time with Lamont Dozier, but unfortunately, they failed to give him his rightful credit for his contribution. Hear him...
Orlando Julius & the Heliocentrics doing his1960s hit single 'Jagua Nana' at Banlieues Blues Fest Paris in April 2013
See ya at the festival
