@we.entertain.you: #creatorsearchinsights s #2000sthrowbacksongs Alhaja Batile Alake was born in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State. She died in 2013, aged about 78 years. Alake popularized the Islamic-inspired, Yoruba genre by playing at concerts and parties throughout Yorubaland, and was the first professional waka singer to record an album. She was most active during the 1950s and 1960s. She was among the overlapping crop of female musicians in the waka genre who came into prominence between the 1960s and 1980s. She sang in a chanting mode that originated from rara, a genre usually reserved for women in Yoruba tradition. With the percussive ensemble of drumming and back-up vocals, she and other practitioners of waka succeeded in transforming the chanting mode into commercial music, taking advantage of the opportunities that the recording industry provided. Being closer to the rara tradition than her younger contemporaries also gave her music an authentic feel, in the sense that it displayed a broad vocabulary. She was able more readily to substitute a word or phrase that fitted the moment. At the same time, she did not hesitate to abridge an authentic or archaic word if doing so would enhance the sonic outcome of the movement in which the word occurred. #copied

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