We’ve seen a number of white choir groups cover songs in the past, but nothing comes to close this new video that surfaced online showing a...
We’ve seen a number of white choir groups cover songs in the past, but nothing comes to close this new video that surfaced online showing an all white choir cover a Yoruba song perfectly.
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir – the 300-person choir of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – performed the Yoruba song in a way that has raised questions as to how a group of caucasians can effortlessly cover a Yoruba song.
The song in question was composed by a Nigerian drummer by the name of Babatunde Olatunji.
Olatunji was born in Ajido, near Badagry in 1927 and won a Rotary Foundation scholarship to study in America in 1950 at the world famous Morehouse College.
While there, he collaborated with a tutor, Dr. Wendell P. Whalum to write the carol. Babatunde Olatunji would later work with several musicians such as Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones and Bob Dylan.
As a matter of fact, the Grammy Award-winning Carlos Santana once sampled a song of his, ‘Jingoloba’. He died in the United States at the age of 76, in 2003.
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