Dipo sodipo biography of martin
Dipo sodipo biography of martin johnson...
Dipo sodipo biography of martin
Remembering Dipo Shodipo, Pope of the Basillica &#; 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. 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 a one man band demands a level of ambidexterity 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 percussive rhythm runs amok on his keyboard. Then he gives chase with his vocals, punctuating with simple piano riffs.
Ever so often, he allows flourishes of complicated piano cho