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A typical udu. Igbo music (Igbo: Egwu nkwa ndi Igbo) is the music of the Igbo people, who are indigenous to the southeastern part of Nigeria.The Igbo traditionally rely heavily on percussion instruments such as the drum and the gong, which are popular because of their innate ability to provide a diverse array of tempo, sound, and pitch. [1]
Odumodu is a folk style of music that is predominantly sung among the Arochukwu, Bende, Ohafia, Abiriba, Umuahia, Ikwuano, and Ngwa people of the Igbo ethnic group, of Abia State, located in southeastern Nigeria. [1]
Igbo-Ukwu, originally known as Igbo-Nkwo, [3] was the capital of the Kingdom of Nri beginning in the 8th or 9th century CE. [4] [5] It was the center of an extensive trade system linking the town with Gao on the Niger bend and, through there, to Egypt and North Africa. [6]
Ukwu was born in Enugu, the capital city of Enugu State, southeastern Nigeria to music-oriented parents. He is from Abor in Udi Local Government of Enugu State. [2] His father was a local performer of the igede, ikpa and ode genres of Igbo music while his mother was lead singer in a women's musical group.
Ekpili (also known as Ekpiri/ Egwu Ekpili [1] or Akuko-na-egwu) is a style of folk genre of music which has its origins from the Igbo people in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. [2] This style of Igbo folk music is characterized by the musical instrument known as " Ubo " a thumb piano which is also referred to as a thumb guitar in which the ...
After the Biafran war there was a hunger amongst the Igbo people to move on from the war. Ikwokirikwo came from this desire in the early 70s. Ikwokirikwo was much different from the somber sound of the Igbo highlife music which dominated the era before and presided during the war. The uptempo beat was one which needed the listener to get up and ...
The modern Igbo highlife is seen in the works of Prince Nico Mbarga, Dr Sir Warrior, Oliver De Coque, Bright Chimezie, Celestine Ukwu and Chief Osita Osadebe, who are some of the greatest Igbo highlife musicians of the twentieth century. There are also other notable Igbo highlife artists, like the Mike Ejeagha, Paulson Kalu, Ali Chukwuma ...
Many Igbo Christians refer to the Christian God as Chukwu. [2] Chukwu (Chu-kwu) is similar to "The Most High" and "The Almighty" instead of a name like " God " which is of Germanic origin. This was usually referring to an idol in the pre-Christian era, but with the arrival of Christianity and Islam in the region, Chukwu became used for God.