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Sonny Okosun

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Born in Enugu, South Eastern Nigeria on January 1, 1947,in 1964 he founded the Postmen, a British Invasion covers band. A year later Okosun visited London for the first time as part of a theatre group--in the wake of the early 1966 government coup d'etat that led to the Biafra conflict. In 1974 he formed his own psychedelic rock unit Paperback Limited, which he helmed until, Upon dissolving the group Okosun again reinvented his approach, this time channeling influences like soul

Top songs

  1. Tire Ni Oluwa
  2. Mother & Child
  3. Ohomi
  4. Wait
  5. Fire in Soweto
  6. Chant Of The Slaves Let My People Go
  7. Highlife
  8. Highlife - Goren Anderssen Dub Version
  9. Third World
  10. Olu Ebube
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  1. Dance Of The Elephants
  2. Amen
  3. Kenelum Jehova (Igbo-Nigeria)
  4. Oba Erediauwa
  5. Liberation
  6. Tell Them
  7. Papa's Land
  8. Highlife (Dub Version)
  9. Mother& Child
  10. Highlife - Dub Version
  11. Festival Of The Hunters
  12. Don't Cry
  13. Living Music
  14. Agbara esu 'Wo (Yoruba)
  15. Odenigbo
  16. African Soldier
  17. Steady & Slow
  18. hosannah
  19. Rain
  20. Highlife (Goren Anderssen Dub Version)
  21. Help
  22. No More Wars
  23. Which way Nigeria
  24. Revolution
  25. Oduduwa
  26. Wind of Change
  27. Jungle Beat
  28. Let It Be
  29. Now or never
  30. Edo
  31. We're In Love
  32. Jah Love
  33. Steady and Slow
  34. 3rd World
  35. Mountain move
  36. My Woman
  37. Know Jesus Know Life
  38. Who's Like Unto Thee O'Lord
  39. The Light Of Jah
  40. Highlife (Dance Version)
  41. Weep Not Children
  42. War Of Nations
  43. Jesus is Lord
  44. Jesus King of Kings
  45. Great Change/God's Army
  46. Great Change
  47. Mohammed
  48. Songs of Praise
  49. Power to the people
  50. Jesus Give Me Your Light
  51. Holy Wars
  52. revival
  53. Highlife (Dub)
  54. Save Our Souls
  55. Mother & Child (Lucid Stannard Edit)
  56. Mother and Child
  57. This Is the Day
  58. Revolution Stop
  59. My Ancestors
  60. Oba Erediauwa I
  61. Give Peace A Chance
  62. amen amen
  63. 1.1. Wait
  64. Let My People Go
  65. Adesua
  66. Hallelujah
  67. The Day Jesus Was Crucufied
  68. Odenigbo (Frankie Francis & Simbad Edit)
  69. African Soldiers
  70. Gberure (Yoruba)
  71. Let there be light
  72. What Manner of Man
  73. O' Jesu
  74. Chukwu Nuru Onum (Ibo)
  75. Bonus Track
  76. Tell My People
  77. Carnival
  78. Jesus Knows The Way
  79. King of Kings
  80. My Cherie Koko
  81. Wind Of Change (Dub)
  82. Semi Swemi Radiaye (Ashanti Ghana)
  83. Bunie Ya (Ibo)
  84. Togetherness
  85. Chant of the Slave
  86. Mt. Zion
  87. O'Nambia
  88. Doctor Jesus / Draw Me Nearer
  89. God Of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob
  90. the crown

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