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    Google Celebrates Chief Oliver De Coque with A Google Goodle

    Google celebrates Oliver De Coque with a doodle. King Chief Oliver De Coque Oliver Sunday Akanite (Late) was a Nigerian guitarist and one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists.

    Oliver De Coque “Biri Ka Mbiri” song made great waves across Africa and the western world. “Biri Ka Mbiri” means “Live and let me live”. It was a song that encourages all humans to be accommodating irrespective who you think you are or what you think you have than another.

    Today we celebrate the Nigerian musician Oliver De Coque on his 74th post-humous birthday.

    Google created this Doodle to celebrate him.

    He is one of Africa’s most prolific recording artists who is considered one of the prime exemplars of and chief innovators in contemporary Igbo popular music.

    Born Oliver Sunday Akanite on this day in 1947 in the small town of Ezinifite in southeastern Nigeria, De Coque first took up the guitar at the age of 11. He was taught to play the guitar by Piccolo, a Congolese guitarist living in Nigeria. As a teenager, studied the traditional Igbo music of the region and Congolese soukous.

    De Coque famously infused the modern West African highlife genre with a Congolese-influenced guitar style and the energetic dance elements of Igbo music he grew up with, crafting a unique musical style, which he called Ogene. Beginning with his first solo release in 1976, de Coque’s music only grew in popularity at home and abroad, as he put out album after album featuring his masterful guitar work and fresh take on African pop–over 70 throughout his lifetime.

    In 1994, in recognition of his prodigious music achievement, de Coque was awarded an honorary doctorate in music by the University of New Orleans.

    We took a line from one of his famous songs – money identity and we celebrate the phrase “Nothing comes from nothing”.

    [Some parts of this post about his history was adapted from Guardian Newspaper]

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