I.k dairo biography
I.K. Dairo
Isaiah Kehinde Dairo, popularly known as I. K Dairo was born January 1931 in Offa town, Kwara State, but his family is originally from Ijebu-Ijesa , Oyo State, before they migrated to Offa. Growing up I.K Dairo attended a Christian Missionary School in Offa, but later dropped out due to financial constraints. His father was a carpenter with the Nigerian National Railway, who resigned in 1937 and took his family, including all of twelve children with him back to his farm in Ijebu-Ijesa. Before leaving, Kehinde’s father made a drum for him, which he became so fond of; he wouldn’t part with it. On getting to Ijebu- Ijesa, I.K apprenticed as a barber and used all of his free time to play drums. He spent his evenings listening to the early pioneers of Juju music (Orioke, Oladele, Oro and others) in action soon his interest in Juju music increased, and he began to make his own drums using the knowledge he learnt from his father. In 1942, he joined a band led by Taiwo Igese, but after a few years the band broke. For the next fifteen years I.K sojourned through many professions including cloth peddler, road worker, coca farm laborer, construction worker, and carpenter. I.K did all these during the day and played at night with early Juju masters like Ojoge Daniel based at Ibadan.
The band
Despite all of Dairo’s wanderings, financial success eluded him. He decided to return home, which he did in 1954, with only sixpence, a guitar and his carpentry tools. After settling down, I.K formed a ten member band named, Morning Star Orchestra. I.K and the Morning Star Orchestra began to play at available venues, weddings, naming ceremonies, burials, and so forth soon their reputation grew. In 1961, they were invited to compete with other fifteen (15) other Juju bands at WNBS/TV contest. I.K and the Morning Star Orchestra took first place. This was the beginning of their journey to stardom.
I.K changed the name of his band to I.K Dairo and his Blue Juju player, composer With a musical career spanning most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Nigerian bandleader I. K. Dairo is known as the father of juju for his role in establishing that musical style, which eventually displaced West African highlife as Nigeria's national sound. His songs, which reflected traditional Nigerian culture, appealed to a variety of listeners and his music featured instruments as diverse as the talking drums and the accordion. Dairo recorded hundreds of records and toured around the world, making him African music's first truly international star. The son of a carpenter, Isaiah Kehinde Dairo was born in 1931 in Offa, Kwara State, Nigeria. His early interest in music reportedly emerged when his father made a drum for him, which he carried around with him at all times. Unable to finish his education, Dairo worked as an apprentice barber and learned to play and make drums in his free time. By 1942 he had joined his first juju band. (Juju music is an upbeat urban music style that began in the 1930s; it is rooted in Yoruba dance drumming with traditional call-and-response patterns.) From 1942 to 1946, Dairo traveled western Nigeria as a migrant farm laborer, cloth merchant, carpenter, and road builder. By night he played with juju bands led by pioneering musicians such as Oladele Oro and Ojoge Daniel. In 1950 he joined the Rolling Dollars dance band, considered important contributors to the development of modern juju. Settling in Ibadan, he began a decade-long apprenticeship under Daniel that allowed him to explore and polish his own musical ideas. In 1956, he formed a ten-member group called the Morning Star Orchestra, which would later be renamed the Blue Spots. Dairo was not entirely content with playing traditional juju and embarked on a path of experimentation that revealed his talents as a composer/arranger and forever changed the sound of the music. In addition to the influences of juju pioneers like I. K. Dairo Isaiah Kehinde Dairo MBE sha chasambo suro saa duwun yar laarrin fyakkin bǝ lan sha katambo (1930). I.K. Dairo də bəla Offa lan katambo, shidoni kərmaaro Kwara State lan karadə; yallanzədə asalnza Ijebu-Jesa kawu Offaro hijrazayinro. Mowonti primary Christian Missionary ye Offa lan kərawono, amma dare kəranzə kolzəna dalil kungəna fatonzəye saa falye nankaro. Offa kolzə Ijebu-Jesa ro lezə nadən cida barberye karzəna. Bəlawuronzədən, ganga baanzəye garzənadə gozəna loktu shiye saa tulur sətanadən. Sa shiye Ijebu-Jesa lan napcin də, shidə zauro ganga kərawoma.[1] Sa cida lan suro cidayen ba də, loktu nguwuro am buro salakbe kaiyya jùjúbe nadən sədin dəga sədin kuru ganga zamtə jarabcin. Yim tulur bǝ lan kǝntawu sawan bǝ lan suro saa duwun yar laarrin filaarin arakkin bǝ lan bawono (7 Feb 1996)I.K. Dairo lan sun nzu notuna ma. Kayama cidi Nigeria bǝ, kaya ruwotuma. shi kam Offa, kwara State bǝ. Nigerian musician (1930–1996) Musical artist Isaiah Kehinde DairoMBE (1930 – 7 February 1996) was a Nigerian Jùjú musician. I.K. Dairo was born in the town of Offa, located in present-day Kwara State; his family was originally from Ijebu-Jesa before migrating to Offa. He attended a Christian Missionary primary school in Offa, however, he later quit his studies due to a lean year in his family's finances. He left Offa and traveled to Ijebu-Jesa where he chose to work as a barber. On his journey, he took along with him a drum built by his father when he was seven years old. By the time he was residing in Ijebu-Jesa, he was already an avid fan of drumming. When he was unoccupied with work, he spent time listening to the early pioneers of jùjú music in the area and experimented with drumming. His interest in jùjú music increased over time, and in 1942, he joined a band led by Taiwo Igese but within a few years, the band broke up. In 1948, he went to Ede, a town in present-day Osun State where he started work there as a pedestrian cloth trader and played music with a local group on the side. One day, while his boss was away traveling, I.K. Dairo decided to join his fellow friends to play at a local ceremony, unknowing to him, his boss was coming back that same day, the boss was furious with the act and he was relieved of his job as a result. I.K. Dairo later pursued various manual tasks after his firing and was able to save enough money to move to Ibadan, where Daniel Ojoge, a pioneer Jùjú musician usually played. He got a break to join a band with Daniel Ojoge and played for a brief before returning to Ijebu-Ijesa, most of the gigs he plays with Ojoge's band were at night. I.K. Dairo's musical career entered the fast lane when he founded a ten piece band called the Morning Star Orchestra in 1957. In 1960, during the celebration of Nigeria's independence, the band was called Dairo, I. K.
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