‘Look at my life, is this how a celebrity’s home should look like?’ ‘Look at my life, is this how a celebrity’s home should look like?’
•Day Adewole Oniluola wept over his poverty
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Eyin eyan yi, ti nba ti wa ku nko? (You these people, what if I had died?).” That was how celebrated drummer, Alhaji Rahman Adewole, a.k.a. Oniluola – one who drums self into wealth – welcomed my crew and me to his house on May 24, 2019. I met him poor, very poor.
Oniluola’s death on Tuesday marked an almost total closure of the legends behind the genre of traditional Yoruba African music called Apala popularized by late Ayinla Omowura. Oniluola was the lead drummer of that leading Yoruba musicians. Killed on May 6, 1980 in a barroom squabble. Omowura and Adewole were the musical twin who popularized that genre. While Omowura passed on at the age of 47, Oniluola died last week at 97.