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"The entertainer" by dbanj
Nigerian Afro star D'Banj emerged in 2005 with his debut album, No Long Thing, which he released in conjunction with business partner/producer Don Jazzy on their Mo'Hits label.
Born Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo in 1980 in the Nigerian city of Zaria, D'Banj learned how to play the harmonica as a teenager in honor of his older brother, who died in a plane crash at the age of 17.
His love for music eventually led him into a partnership with Don Jazzy, a producer he met in London with whom he would later return to Lagos and begin his recording career. Led by the single "Tongolo," No Long Thing presented a slick mix of urban dance pop and Afropop with which D'Banj would find great success over the next several years.
As an entrepreneur, he and Jazzy signed other up-and-coming Nigerian pop acts to their label and, in 2007, formed the collective Mo'Hits All-Stars, releasing a handful of hit singles featuring D'Banj as its star act.
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With 'Entertainer', D'banj delivered a hit-filled album that combined era-defining Afrobeats elements with cultural and foreign influences to conceptualised part of the grounded identity of what would become Afrobeats.
D'banj's music embraces a wide sonic fusion which he displays on'The Entertainer: D'Sequel'. The gyration-propelled 'Melody' is reminiscent of D'banj's'Igwe' from his 2008 'Entertainer' while he exploresFela Kuti's Afrobeat on 'Serious' which also holds influences of American 90s rap music. And for the Street pop cut 'Taya', he recruits Timaya, Kayswitch, Zlatan, Bhadboi Oml, and Specikinging.
"I am the world-famous Koko Master," D'banj sings on 'World Famous' where he restates what we all know to be true in a song his famous harmonica comes out to play.
On 'The Entertainer: D'Sequel,' D'banj takes a leisurely trip across his accomplished 20-year career. The album showcases his continuous evolution and star power as a supreme showman whose name is boldly written in African music folklore.