About: Moses Olaiya     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : yago:Wikicat20th-centuryNigerianMusicians, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FMoses_Olaiya

Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018), better known by his stage name "Baba Sala", was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist, and actor. A Yoruba from Ijesha, Baba Sala, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian comedy, alongside other dramatists like Hubert Ogunde, Kola Ogunmola, Oyin Adejobi and Duro Ladipo popularized theater and television acting in Nigeria. He was a prolific filmmaker. Significantly, Baba Sala started his career in show business as a Highlife musician, fronting in 1964 a group known as the Federal Rhythm Dandies where he tutored and guided the jùjú music maestro King Sunny Adé who was his lead guitar player.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Moses Olaiya Adejumo (it)
  • Moses Olaiya (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Moses Olaiya (18 May 1936 – 7 October 2018), better known by his stage name "Baba Sala", was a Nigerian comedian, dramatist, and actor. A Yoruba from Ijesha, Baba Sala, regarded as the father of modern Nigerian comedy, alongside other dramatists like Hubert Ogunde, Kola Ogunmola, Oyin Adejobi and Duro Ladipo popularized theater and television acting in Nigeria. He was a prolific filmmaker. Significantly, Baba Sala started his career in show business as a Highlife musician, fronting in 1964 a group known as the Federal Rhythm Dandies where he tutored and guided the jùjú music maestro King Sunny Adé who was his lead guitar player. (en)
  • Moses Olaiya Adejumo (Ilesa, 18 maggio 1936 – Ilesa, 7 ottobre 2018) è stato un attore teatrale nigeriano. Fondatore della compagnia (1963), è celebre per aver creato il personaggio di Baba Sala, pensionato alle prese con il mondo moderno. (it)
foaf:name
  • Moses Olaiya (en)
name
  • Moses Olaiya (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moses_Olaiya.jpeg
birth place
death place
death place
  • Ilesha, Osun State, Nigeria (en)
death date
birth place
  • Ilesha, Southern Region, British Nigeria (en)
birth date
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 43 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software