OLD MUSIC: DOWNLOAD OLOWO LAYE MO – BY EBENEZER OBEY

From the Evergreen Hit, Olowo Laye Mo as recorded by the Greatest, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey. Please feel free to download, enjoy and sing along.

download Olowo Laye Mo by Ebenezer Obey

Obey, whose real names are Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Fabiyi, was born in Idogo, Ogun State, Nigeria of Egba-Yoruba ethnic background. He is of the Owu subgroup of the Egba. He began his professional career in the mid-1950s after moving to Lagos.

After tutelage under Fatai Rolling-Dollar‘s band, he formed a band called The International Brothers in 1964, playing highlife-juju fusion. The band later metamorphosed into Inter-Reformers in the early-1970s, with a long list of Juju album hits on the West African Decca musical label.

download Olowo Laye Mo by Ebenezer Obey

Obey began experimenting with Yoruba percussion style and expanding on the band by adding more drum kits, guitars and talking drums. Obey’s musical strengths lie in weaving intricate Yoruba axioms into dance-floor compositions.

As is characteristic of Nigerian Yoruba social-circle music, the Inter-Reformers band excel in praise-singing for rich Nigerian socialites and business tycoons. Obey, however, is also renowned for Christian spiritual themes in his music and has since the early-1990s retired into Nigerian gospel music ministry.

download Olowo Laye Mo by Ebenezer Obey

Instrumentals playing in the background

Olowo laiye mo
Oluwa temi di owo re
Gbogbo lala eda
Nitori owo ni
Je ki aye mi dun
Se mi ki nle di eniyan
Tete fi ona han mi, Oluwa
Maje kin lo lofo
Oluwa, ko si ore to da bi ire
Tete fi ona han mi Oluwa
Maje kin lo lofo
Je ki aye mi dun
Se mi kinle di eniyan
Tete fi ona han mi Oluwa
Maje kin lo lofo

Credits
Writer(s): Ebenezer Obey