Veteran highlife singer Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius is dead.
The Ijebu-Jesha born saxophonist and afrobeat legend was aged 79
The Nation report his wife Latoya and Bimbo Esho of the Evergreen Music Company Limited as confirming the death.
During his lifetime was one of Nigeria’s fathers of Afro/Highlife music and a fine saxophonist.
He was born in 1943 in Ikole Ekiti and attended St. Peter’s Anglican School in Ikole.
