New album out now

Abuwa is from Warri Nigeria. Growing up next door to the famous Lido Night Club in Warri of the 1970s was wonderful, all the highlife stars played there. Tony Gray, King Sunny Ade, Victor Uwaifo, Fela , Victor Olaiya, Steven Osadebe, Godwin Omabuwa and more. Abuwa moved to Lagos in the the late 70s where he teamed up with Bayo Damazio, they released one album " Shake Your Body To The Rhythm " by Bayo Damazio in 1981, and then moved on to Europe later the same year. He played and toured extensively in the late 1980s and 90s, with different bands, as a prolific percussionist, before he began his solo career as the afrobeat singer that we know today. His debut single "Break down the system " taking from the anti-apartheid project "Amandla" was released in 1986. He is now based in Oslo Norway. Abuwa and shekere is widely appreciated for their music and style. The standard 8 piece outfit, also perform in another format, as a 6.tet.