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Tunji Oyelana
Nigerian musician and actor (born 1939)
Tunji Oyelana | |
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| Born | (1939-07-04) July 4, 1939 (age 85) |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actor, lecturer |
Tunji OyelanaListenⓘ (born 4 October 1939) is a multi-award-winning Nigerian musician,[1] actor, folk singer, composer[2] and once a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Tunji Oyelana is of the Yoruba ethnic group and is a native of Nigeria.
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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.
He was the musician for Stéphane Breton's 1994 film Un dieu au bord de la route.[3] Oyelana is credited with having sold the most albums by a NigerianHigh Life musicians.[4] In 2012 he released A Nigerian Retrospective 1966-79, an album from Soun