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| Zule Zoo
Label: Blue Pie Productions
Artists Genre: Urban
The Zule-Zoo are a group of multitalented Nigerians
who has popularized a genre of Music which projects
Nigerian culture through creativity in lyrical
composition and innovative use of African percussion
instrument. The genre of their music is known as the
Takuraku beat. The word Zulezoo means, Forgotten
Warriors Never Die.
Zulezoo is currently the top musical artistes with a
unique, energetic, African cultural dance which
thrills a lot of people wherever they perform, both at
home and abroad.
Their first hit solo tract is titled: Kerewa, of which
they are popularly known for. The music was banned by
the censors board due to a misunderstanding of the
song as advocating adultery. This created a rubble in
the music industry in Nigeria and almost caused a set
back to the Zulezoo. Not long after, the group came
out with a full album entitle: BANNED IN NIGERIA, a
9-tract album including the banned Kerewa, which made
wave nationwide and is now a huge success. Kerewa was
subsequently unbanned in Nigeria and the group is
flying high in the sky. They are most sought in Shows,
Concert and media houses.
Zule Zoo are a Blue Pie artist and are available at
all leading retailers on the planet. For more
information on Zule Zoo or if you would like to
license any of thier music then please email
damien@bluepie.com.au
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INTERVIEWS:
Zule- Zoo, two of a kind doing their thing
Posted to the Web: Sunday, February 13, 2005
Like Awilo, they stormed the music scene with a
firebrand style that is penetrating every nook and
cranny of the nation. Zule-Zoo boys are emerging
Nigerian musicians whose music pattern cum costumes on
stage speak volumes of African culture, reports
BENJAMIN NJOKU
THEY are like birds of the same feathers that have
decided to flock together. From childhood, despite
their different parental backgrounds, they appear to
have been joined eternally by destiny to take the
world someday by storm. And really they have. Ibrahim
Alhassan and Mike are the emerging Nigerian musicians
from the Middle-belt who are no less the symbol of
what African music should portray. Since their debut
last year with their hit track album,"Kerewa", the
better known Zule-Zoo boys are waxing stronger to
influence the music tradition in this part of the
world. With their "Takoroko beat " as they call it,
the dancers turned musicians like the groundbreaking
Awilo trend is sweeping across the nation with their
heroic demonstrations and portrayal of the black
culture on stage.
Watching them on stage is like going to the theatre to
behold a performance. With a blend of western hip-hop
and African flavour, the rising artistes thrill their
fans to a kill.
The young, the aged and the lad are unconsciously
rising up to their kind of music. From the north to
the west and east, inside the bus, on the road and at
home, Zule-Zoo boys are the latest talk of the town.
Their Kerewa music evades the airwave all the time as
it has equally formed the subject of discourse in the
Nigerian music scene.
Even with the attempt last year by the censor’s board
to ban their music on the basis of its alleged
generation of bad influence on the younger ones, the
singers’ kind of music has continued to gain
acceptance and recognition within and outside the
country.
While relishing in promoting African culture through
their music cum dance steps, the two of a kind singers
have come a long way as friends to register their
impact on the music scene.
"Zule -Zoo is a combination of Ibro and Mike, we did
not just jump into music. We started as professional
dancers right from Benue State as far back as 1992
before we came down to Lagos in 1996 to attend the
National Troupe audition. After the audition, we
decided to stay back and go into music." Ibrahim
Alhassan, the leader of the group narrated during a
recent encounter with Sunday Arts at their film
village base near the National Theatre Complex,
Iganmu.
The two artistes who hail from different homes for
ages have been united by fate to engage in what they
are doing today. "We are not twins but we have been
very close to each other from our childhood days at
school."
Ibrahim says both him and his partner, Mike knew,
based on their childhood mingling, that they both had
a lot to share with each other. During their childhood
days, he recounts,"we discovered that we have
something in common and then, could work together to
shake the world". He recalled that he came to Lagos
before Mike who later joined him as they both featured
in the National: Troupe’s audition which rather left
them disappointed.
"After the NTN’s audition, I had no fare to go back to
Benue State, so I decided to stay back and sweat it
out with life. There and then, I started working hard
to ensure that I realize my ambition to become a star
in my lifetime. About that time, Mike who left
immediately for Benue after the audition later
returned to join me and that was when we started
researching on how to actualize our dream as we later
came up with the name, Zule-Zoo, meaning forgotten
warriors never die."
Notwithstanding what difficulties they faced as a
result of their struggle to actualize their dreams to
take the world by storm, the Zule-Zoo boys are today
emerging stronger, outshining their contemporaries.
Their blend of African rhythm with the western hip-pop
is something of innovation that has given African
music a new idiom. Like the Afro-beat music, the
Zule-Zoo boys are treading the path of late Fela who
originated the Afro-beat as a music idiom.
With their Takoroko beat, the boys create a style that
is less imitative. According to them, the thrust of
their music is to promote African culture and also use
the same to preach peace, equal rights and justice
across the globe."We want to use our kind of music to
promote our culture. We always bear the symbol of
African culture because Africa is endowed with rich
culture. In future, it is our dream to showcase young
but talented musicians who lack the desired assistance
to hit the mark and be celebrated". says the band
leader.
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