Home » Search Center » Results: Tai Adelaja
Results for "Tai Adelaja"
Results for pages tagged "Tai Adelaja"...
Tai Adelaja
Born:
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.