Name: A Life In The Limelight: Lagos Disco and Itsekiri Highlife 1976 - 1981
Brand: Julie Coker

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

KALITALP4

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-06-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

4012957510910

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Julie Coker

Genre US

African

Label US

Kalita

Kalita are honoured to release the first ever compilation focusing on the musical career of Julie Coker, the queen of Nigerian television. Here they collate seven of Julie’s most sought-after Afro disco and hauntingly-beautiful Itsekiri highlife recordings, accompanied by extensive interview-based liner notes and never-before- seen photos. After gaining fame as Miss Western Nigeria 1957, Julie began her career in the Nigerian entertainment industry as the country’s first ever (and Africa’s second) female television presenter, as well as a popular national radio host.

In 1976, having been surrounded by close musical friends including Fela Kuti and Kris Okotie, Julie entered the Nigerian music scene with the now-invisible psychedelic highlife album Ere Yon (Sweet Songs), followed in 1981 by the highly sought-after disco-centric Tomorrow to great acclaim. Both now fetch eye-watering prices on the rare occasion that they become available for sale.

Here Kalita select four recordings from Ere Yon (Sweet Songs) and three from Tomorrow, all as contemporary-sounding today as they were when first released forty years ago. These include Julie’s Ere Yon, which was recently re-interpreted by Anderson Paak on his latest album Oxnard released on Dr. Dre’s Aftermath imprint, and the lost Afro disco classic Gossiper Scandal Monger.

A Life In The Limelight: Lagos Disco and Itsekiri Highlife 1976 - 1981

Music US