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// Fatai Rolling Dollar
© Uche Iroha for Glendora review
// Fatai Rolling Dollar
The only elements that betray Fatai Rolling Dollar’s age are the front teeth he lost in the course of his 79 years, and the memories of the neo-traditional Nigerian music he has absorbed since he began playing in the Fifties. For the rest, this livewire player of the West African agidigbo thumb piano and the guitar remains a vivid testimony to the vitality of Lagos’s music heritage. In 2004, Fatai returned to Nigeria’s music scene with three albums and was finally recognised as a virtuoso exponent of neo-traditional highlife rhythms and a precursor to juju music. Two years later he teamed up with Tony Allen for the album Lagos No Shakin’. In May 2007, Fatai released a compilation CD bringing together the gems that have marked his troubled career.
// REVIEWS
Papa Rise Again
16/05/2007
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Papa Rise Again (Album)
Fatai Rolling Dollar Returns (Album)// LINKS
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// CONTACT
The Jazz Hole Lte (Distributeur)
Tel : 234 1 461 5583
168 Awolowo Road SW Ikoyi, Lagos NGA
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