The military junta was not spared his sarcastic attack when the then maximum military ruler was forced to step aside in 1993ĭr. he used the Alagbon sojourn to delve on the need for Prison reforms. Orlando Owoh plunged into full time music career, there was no stopping the momentum, not even the brief period in incarceration on allegedly trumped up charges of drugs possession which coincided with the release of his soul rending tribute in honour of the letter bombed fearless co-founder of the Newswatch magazine – Sumonu Oladele Giwa in 1986, the albums (Message, Experience, E Get As E Be) released after that brush with the law were instant chart burster, and typical of the people’s hero, Dr. Orlando Owoh who entered the planet on Sunday 14th February 1932 and exited on Tuesday 4th 2008 was a man of many parts, who was involved in Carpentry (being the family trade), part of the famous Osogbo drama school with the Kola Ogunmola Theatre Group, a fearless boxer (at least he tutored King Sunny Ade in the sweet science), he joined the Nigerian Army, where he teasingly referred to himself as ‘Private Moridele’ in reference to his exiting the Army and returning home unscathed.īy the time the nationalistic Dr. Orlando was highly regarded and held in high esteem by those who neither drank nor smoked, contrary to beliefs in certain quarters that the partakers formed the larger chunk of his fan base – one of the torch bearers of the Kennery revolution, his sibling Tosin Owomoyela of the Zion Kennery band neither smokes nor drinks!īut I do know that the Osogbo born of Ifon/Owo parentage, Dr. In all honesty, I cannot vividly recount how I got enticed to the Orlando brand just as ants are attracted to sugar, but I remembered growing up in an environment where Dr. Orlando Owoh who passed on a decade (the canary expected lifespan) ago on Tuesday 4th November, 2008 started his band as Omimah band in recognition of his Ifon roots before adopting the name Young Kenneries, that later transformed to the African Kenneries International. Stephen Oladipupo Olaore Owomoyela trading as Dr. The expected lifespan of the canary is 10 to 15 years, and like the most successful national football side of all times, the Brazilian national football team adopted the nickname Canarinho (meaning the Little Canary), likewise arguably the greatest cerebral cultural activist from this part of the world – Dr. The Canary is a small songbird that was used in the coal mining industry to detect carbon monoxide, though this practice was stopped in the UK in 1986.
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