A legend Osadebe 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 How many of his songs do you know? These are the songs we played when traveling to the village ❤️ | Igboweddingng

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Osadebe succeeded in breaking away from the conventional big band format established by the pioneers of the music, a format that favored melodic progressions that were in the common meter, church hymnal tradition. He succeeded in completely transforming highlife into the call-and-response pattern of African music. He sang in English, pidgin English and Igbo. Osadebe often extended his tracks for his audience's enjoyment, allowing room for 'people on the dance floor' to indulge in the songs. He e