Ebenezer Remilekun Aremu Olasupo Obey-Fabiyi is also known as Chief Commander was born On the 3rd of April, 1942 at Idogo, Ogun State. Obey is 74 years today.
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 – jùjú
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.
“My own band, Ebenezer Obey and his International Brothers' Band was
formed in 1963 at age 18. My first album was, E wa wo ohun oju mi ri . Ebenezer obey said.
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.
From 1963 to 1993, he became a foremost Juju musician with more than 100 albums, 30 gold discs and two platinum. This means that more than 100,000 copies of each of the 30 records have been sold and more than a million of each of the two Platinum discs has been sold.
Obey married Juliana Olaide Olufade in 1963. His
wife, known as Lady Evangelist Juliana Obey-Fabiyi,
died at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on
23 August 2011, aged 67. They have several children
and grand children.
Happy birthday to Baba commander. Long Life and Prosperity.
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