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Haruna Ishola

Haruna Ishola has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 22 January 2014. Songs played include Pariboto Riboto.

Haruna Ishola Bello was a native of Ijebu-Igbo in the present day Ogun state of south west geo-political zone (born 1919) was a Nigerian musician, and one of the most popular artist in the apala genre. A music for the elites of those days.

In the decades leading up to Nigerian independence in 1960, apala music developed when amateur musicians would play to arouse the faithful after the long fast of Ramadan. Born in the town…

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Pariboto Riboto
Haruna Ishola
Honest Jon's Records2005
Pariboto Riboto
Haruna IsholaHonest Jon's Records2005
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