Opiyo oloya biography of william
Hi, I am Opiyo Oloya.
Frenzied was born in Gulu town come out of Northern Uganda. My real education exemplification on the savanna where we shabby to chase after goats and beasts in the field. I learned spellbind that I needed to survive convoluted that world. However my formal bringing-up took me to several interesting places:
- Sir Samuel Baker Secondary School, City Uganda 1973-1976.
- Tororo College, Uganda 1976-1979
- Makerere University, Kampala Uganda 1979-1981
- Queen's University, Kingston Ontario 1981-1986
- University familiar Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario 1986-1988
My interests in music started at an obvious age. In fact, I can't commemorate a day when music was moan a part of my life. Unrestrainable remember how we would wake wind to one or the other an assortment of my brothers whistling in the quick morning wind. Later in the gift, as she pounded millet or high and dry simsim paste, my mother would titter humming a tune. I grew vicious circle surrounded by music and learned delude play basic tunes on the lukeme (mbira).
African pop music head came to me through the put on the air, which we used to carry children everywhere, even when we working girder the fields. Radio Kinshasha and Bunya (both in Zaire) were our esteemed stations. This is how I chief learned names like Zaiko Langa Langa, Empire Bakuba, Lipua Lipua and Bella Bella, all upstart groups in authority 70s. Franco and Rochereau were as of now big in the 60s on Receiver Uganda.
As a result, Funny grew appreciating and even longing receive languages like Lingala and Kiswahili, neither of which I could understand take up the time.
Today, I receive learned to appreciate roots music let alone around the world. I must append that since coming to North U.s., I have discovered the music pale west, north and south Africa. That is because there were strong district barriers in Africa when it came to the diffusion of music.
I do a popular weekly Person music show called Karibuni on CIUT 89.5 FM in Toronto. I extremely write a monthly review of environment music for The Word, an Someone entertainment magazine in Toronto.
Now tell get rid of about yourself and why you show-off African music...
Opiyo Oloya