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Temidayo Balogun
Temidayo Balogun is a pan-African saxophonist, pianist, talking drummer, composer, and educator from Osun state, Nigeria.
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Temidayo Balogun is a pan-African saxophonist, pianist, talking drummer, composer, and educator from Osun state, Nigeria. While growing up, Temidayo had the chance of listening to a lot of west- African music with his late Father who was a music aficionado, specifically, a lover of Yoruba traditional music. At the age of 6, Temidayo started his musical journey by learning different African musical instruments like talking drum, and agbamole. After high school, He studied music at Peter King College of Music and Muson School of Music where he studied saxophone and piano with Shola Kunkpe, Late Lt.Rtd. Abayomi Odujobi, and Imoleayo Balogun. In 2021, he moved to the US to study for a graduate degree in jazz and contemporary music at the Longy School of Music of Bard College where he studied closely with Noah Preminger, Eric Hofbauer, and Ben Scwendener. Temidayo has had the privilege of working on different projects by musical artists as well as bands across different genres of music as an instrumentalist, a music director, and producer, like Yinka Davies, Taye Mayegha, Tosin Aribisala, The Lagos jazz series quintet, Generayshun, The Native Brains, Ope and the Stereo Choir, Jazz in My Room, and Makanda Project based in Boston. Temidayo formed a new band called AKÉDE in 2021 and is set to release a studio record in the summer of 2023. In 2020, Temidayo released two self- produced singles on digital platforms, Adura Owuro and Abiamo. As an artist, composer, and seeker, Temidayo considers his music both rhythmically and harmonically rooted in the Yoruba’s diverse cultural practices and other West-African musical genres.
