Tai Adelaja

Tai "TMon" Adelaja is a percussionist, music technologist and sound designer living in the coastal city of Lagos in Nigeria. A trained journalist, Tai also moonlights as an arts critic and entertainment writer. A global music afficionado, he likes to write about music, musical instruments and music technology.

Tai is a trained master of the djundjun (an African bass drum), a competent accompanist on djembe, and a passionate scholar and champion of themes and concepts in global percussionism. Tai studied African drum and dance concepts with the late great Babatunde Olatunji in 1992 and completed a 3-year cultural residency program with master drummer Aidoo Mamadi Holmes' and Wo’se African Dance Theater in Washington DC in 2000.

In private and professional life, Tai continues to pursue a passion for music, entertainment and the arts as well as a commitment to environmental and cultural causes. He is a committed advocate of the percussive arts and frontman of The Lagos Drum Circle. Tai is also Associate Editor of Simply Jazz, Nigeria's Premier Jazz Magazine.

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