Dipo sodipo biography of william shakespeare
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Remembering Dipo Shodipo, Pope of the Basillica
BY DAMI AJAYI
His baritone was like no other. Deep, obviously. Rumbling and tightly controlled so that he could thin it out into a lacquered tenor or hollow it for a deeper booming texture.
His name was Dipo Sodipo.
His sobriquets were numerous but the Pope seemed to have been his preferred.
Dipo sodipo biography of william shakespeare
He was the Czar of the One Man Band, a popular fixture of the Yoruba music scene of the late 80s and 90s.
The shrinking of bands at the time could have been an economical response to the austerity that did not exclude the music scene, but one man bands demanded a level of ambidexterity the likes of Pope handled effortlessly.
To hold a note on a microphone and hoist a piano chord simultaneously is truly the stuff of genius.
Witness the one man band: usually, a pre-programmed rhythm runs amok on his keyboard. Then he gives chase with his vocals and punctuating with simple piano riffs.
Ever so often, he allows flourishes of complicated pi