Kokoro - The Lagos Street Minstrel (2007) Video

Juju music legend, King Sunny Ade, salutes KOKORO before he performed at a function.
This is one of the last public performances by this street music legend @ the Lagos Island Club, on December 24, 2007. (Video clip courtesy of "Musi-JOE!).

Benjamin Aderounmu, better known as 'Kokoro', the unmistakable and widely- known tambourine-playing minstrel, died in a Lagos hospital on Sunday, January 25, 2009, a month to his 84th birthday.

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tonyajayi: This is hilarious!!!. KOKORO looking good, did his street gigs.The pretty wife seems to be saying.."behave Kokoro cos we have rich folks in the house".Who wouldn't pitch in for a charismatic genius like him?.Funny thing is the musician don't know how to follow him. King Sunny Ade is kind to let KOKORO steal this show!!!.Bravo to musi-JOE and zookat for sharing this moment with the whole world

zookat: ** FROM E-MAIL RECEIVED about KOKORO** Kokoro and his music, a one man gang, made me so nostalgic. My initial contact with him was about middle forties. He walked the length and breath of Eko, though he was visually challenged, and was often a nocturnal visitor at our house on Catholic Mission St , the site of the present Lagos City Council. I am sorry he passed, may his soul find perpetual rest. -From Dr. Olu Makanju-

TheMorales1111: im 42 years of age. The 1st time i saw kokoro was around 1980. He seems old then. It's amazing he was still alive till 2007. What a street legend. RIP

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