THE MUSIC HISTORY OF NIGERIA [FUTURE, PRESENT AND PAST] PART 1

In Nigeria, Music is well-known to almost all Nigerians and also almost all Nigerian life is influenced by music, which is also significant to fashion life. When you visit a place like Lagos and other various cities in the country, you'll notice that music infuses the cities. I will like to take you on a musical tour of Nigeria in this article, showing you its originality through afrobeat, reggae, jazz, highlife, the performers of afrobeat, and juju. Nigeria's audience or viewers across the country like these genres.

Nigeria's traditional music originated in the early time from a practical purpose way back in time and was always performed to fulfill some rites, (weddings or funerals). Agriculture also helped, as a result, to keep themselves active and motivated, farmers in the fields and those in the river on canoes sang work songs. Farmers, especially from the Northern part of Nigeria were expected to provide or have musicians when they were opportune to work on one another farms. The musician gave courage to the other working farmers by the way of singing laudatory songs about his client or the group as a whole.

Nigeria has a diversity of music, surrounding folk and mainstream genres. All ethnic groups that are in Nigeria have their own distinct musical styles, songs, and instruments. Foregoing the arrival of the Europeans, not a thing is known about the past of music in Nigeria, regardless of the discovery of bronze engravings around the 16th and 17th centuries that show entertainers and their instruments.

Afrobeat, Waka, Ogene, Juju, Indigenous, Afro-juju, Apala, Fuji, Igbo Highlife, Igbo Rap, Yo-pop, also Gospel are the most well-known genres in Nigeria internationally. The Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba are the three major ethnic groups. The majority of the time, traditional music from Nigeria and other parts of Africa is performed to mark a rite, like a wedding or funeral, rather than to further artistic objectives.

Despite the fact, some Nigerians play instruments for enjoyment or fun, especially children and sometimes the elderly, performances of the solo are very uncommon. For instance, which instrument may be played at various plating seasons because music and agriculture are somehow closely related?

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THE CHANGE IN THE HISTORY OF NIGERIAN MUSIC

Nigerian Music is certainly some of the most engaging and dynamic music in the whole world. All the genre, from Juju to Highlife to Afrobeat, is very rich. Many people are very unenlightened about the old history of Nigerian Music, which ranges several generations. Nigerian Musicians today, mainly perform R&B, Hip Hop, and Reggae. A very powerful spot is also taken by Gospel Music in Nigeria. It begins with the amalgamation of choral presentations of Evangelistic Hymns. This special musical genre, which includes Blues and Jazz with Choral Configuration, is mainly liked in Nigeria and also around the world. Many current Afrobeat Artists work to make their own different types and styles by combining folk components with dissimilar performing traditions.

THE 1930s HISTORY

Juju Music started in the city of Lagos in Nigeria, and it mainly consists of speaking or talking about people and things in a style akin to early Rap Music (but with a low expletive). A popular Yoruba Musician, Tunde King, released the first ever recordings around 1929, but it was not until the next decade that musicians like Ojoge Daniel & Irewole Denge gained approval. Even though it still had its roots in casual music played at small meetings, gatherings, or for friends, Juju has started to become increasingly commercialized at this point. These meetings and gatherings eventually turned into live concerts performance with performers performing concurrently on different variety of instruments. The most well-known musicians of that time were people like Ebenezer Obey, Irewole Denge, and Ojoge Daniel; their music is liked and known to date.

THE 1940s HISTORY

Ephraim Nkansah (also known as King Bruce), Highlife Music, a Yoruba Artist, started testing new instruments to make highlife. To African Tradition collision instruments like Talking drums, Gourds, and Bells, he included Brass Instrument and  Western drums. Ephraim Nkansah and his crusados released the first ever highlife songs in Nigeria in 1948, but it was not until the next decade that the genre became popular with the general public. Highlife Music was created during the period by different Ghanaian musicians, like E.T. Mensah and E.K. Nyame.

THE 1950s HISTORY

Blues, Rhythms, Jazz, and also the beginning of guitar highlife. Common changes happened in Nigerian music around the 1950s, including the coming of different genres including Jazz and Rhythms and Blues {R&B} as well as the spread of highlife throughout the country. They joined traditional African instruments with modern ones like guitars and keyboards, these genres have a remarkable influence on African instruments like Koloko Lute & Alto Saxophone to play R&B-STYLE guitar licks.

A new musical style known as guitar highlife, which joins Afro-Cuban components with Nigerian highlife, was also made around this time. Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, who quickly rose to popularity as Nigeria's most popular musician in the 1950s & 1960s is taking as the leading pioneer of guitar highlife.

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