*BY OPEMIDE AYOOLA\/ENTERTAINMENT Reporter, Lagos<\/b><\/p>\n
NIGERIA is mourning. Africa is sad at the exit of one of the continent’s highly revered Highlife Afrobeat legends, ORLANDO JULIUS, by 3:00am this morning. He was an icon who could close his eyes and read you music notes, sing out unwritten songs from his wind instrument. His life and times are now being celebrated by Angels and Saints as his appearance in the celestial realm has attracted a fiesta of saxophone party in the Heavenlies\u2026joined by Fela Anikulapo Kuti, an Afrobeat maestro, Sunny Okosuns, a music leader of freedom and Oliver de Coque, the \u2018Mbiri ka mbiri’ melodious music maker.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cYes, my husband passed on late last night, there was no indication that death was coming, he was not ill, he only slept and died in his sleep,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>\u2018A dara, a dara\u2019<\/span><\/i> singer\u2019s death was also confirmed by music promoter, Bimbo Esho.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBimbo, Daddy Has Passed On\u2026.This was the message I stumbled on waking up at exactly 3 am to peruse my <\/span>WhatsApp<\/span><\/i> page. It was a message sent to me by Orlando Julius\u2019 beautiful and supportive wife Lady Latoya.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cOrlando Julius, a native of Ijebu Ijesha, succumbed to the cold hands of death and breathed his last few hours ago at the age of 79.<\/span><\/p>\n Death of veteran Highlife musician, Orlando Julius Olusanya Ekemode better known as Orlando Julius, has been confirmed.<\/span><\/p>\n The news was confirmed through a Facebook post of Managing Director of Evergreen Music, Bimbo Esho.<\/span><\/p>\n The saxophonist, a native of Ijebu Ijesha in Osun state, had his last breath at 3:00am at the age of 79.<\/span><\/p>\n Pa Ekemode, a veteran internationally recognised singer will be remembered for many of his hits songs among which is Jagur Nana, Ololufe, to mention a few.<\/span><\/p>\n Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius or Orlando Julius Ekemode was a Nigerian saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with Afrobeat music. The native of Ijebu Ijesha died at 79 years of age<\/span><\/p>\n CERTAINLY, Good journalism costs a lot of money. Without doubt, only good journalism can ensure the possibility of a good society, an accountable democracy, and a transparent government. We are ready to hold every corrupt government accountable to the citizens.<\/b> To continually enjoy free access to the best investigative journalism in Nigeria, we are requesting of you to consider making a modest support to this noble endeavor.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Your donation is voluntary \u2014 please decide how much and how often you want to give. For offline donation, email: letters@nigeriastandardnewspaper.com or call +2348037128048 (Nigeria) or +16825834890 (United States of America)<\/b><\/p>\n [pff-paystack id=<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angels, Saints Celebrate exit of a Good Man: Nigeria\u2019s Highlife Music Legend, ORLANDO JULIUS blows Saxophone into Heaven at 3:00am in the morning \u2026Died peacefully in sleep at 79years old, join Fela Kuti, Oliver de Coque, Sunny Okosuns in celestial realm to play Afrobeat in the Heavenlies\u00a0 *\u201cYes, my husband passed on late last night, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/orlando-one.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a>Orlando<\/span> died at the age of 79. His death was announced in the early hours of Friday by his wife, Latoya <\/a>Ekemode. She said that the talented musician passed out in his sleep on Thursday night.<\/span><\/p>\nBy contributing to NAIJA STANDARD NEWSPAPER, you are helping to sustain a journalism of relevance and ensuring it remains free and available to all without fear or favor.<\/b><\/h1>\n