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Late Nigerian music icon and highlife maestro, Oliver de Coque, has been honoured with a Google doodle to celebrate his 74th posthumous birthday.
Google doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepages to mark important festivals, holidays, events, achievements, and notable historical figures.
King (Dr.) Chief Oliver De Coque whose real name was Oliver Sunday Akanite was crowned the “Highlife King of Africa.”
Born on April 14, 1947, in the small town of Ezinifite in Anambra State Nigeria, Oliver Sunday Akanite first took up the guitar at a young age, and as a teenager, studied the traditional Igbo music of the region and Congolese soukous.