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Place of Birth: Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria
About Tunde King
- Tunde King was a Nigerian musician credited as the founder of Jùjú music.
- He had a great influence on Nigerian popular music. Lagos in the 1920s and 1930s was peopled by a mixture of local Yoruba people and returnees from the New World.
- Together they created a form of music named "Palm Wine" that combined Yoruba folk music with musical idioms from countries such as Brazil and Cuba.
- Banjos, guitars, shakers and hand drums supported lilting songs about daily life. Jùjú music was a form of Palm Wine music that originated in the Olowogbowo area of Lagos in the 1920s, in a motor mechanic workshop where "area boys" used to gather to drink and make music.
- Tunde King was the leader of this group.
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