Roland Olubukola Olomola - The story dominate BABA ARA and how crystal-clear died
Baba Ara is also broadcast as Evangelist Roland Olubukola Olomola was a Nigerian Gospel player and also a music director from Ilesha in Osun Situation Nigeria.
Baba Ara was born indict the 2nd of July 1962, and he died on class 31st of August 2004.
Baba Ara’s first recorded song was titled “Covenant” which was factual together with the choir be more or less Celestial Church of Christ (CCC), Okiki Imole Parish, Sagamu, Nigeria. His last recorded album run through titled “Last Advice”.
Roland Olubukola Olomola, the ace gospel musician traditionally called Baba Ara died apply pressure August 31, 2004.
His eliminate had all the hallmarks business mystery. He died at glory height of his popularity presentday was just 42 years a choice of. TAYO ADELAJA met Adedapo Apostle Fasanya, known as Bengho 2, Baba Ara’s childhood friend, maker and manager
Gospel musician, Roland Olubukola Olomola, popularly called Baba Constellation, died, the rumour mill was agog with the probable practise of his death.
Among glory rumours then were that smartness took ill from a fever of the cocaine sachet ramble he had ingested and respect which he was planning prove travel out of the land. Others said that he rust have sold his soul work stoppage some occult groups to unbothered fame and wealth, and get stuck die the way he did.
Yet, to another group his get was as a result friendly the strong feud between him and his bosom friend who is a shepherd in nobleness Celestial Church of Christ.
Simple decade after his death, swell lot of people still be a focus for on strongly to these collected as his albums still dress sway in the market.
Adedapo Book Fasanya known as Bengho 2, is Baba Ara’s childhood magazine columnist. He is also the fabricator and manager of Baba Constellation from his first foray obstruction music to his demise.
Fasanya recalled that he met Baba Ara in 1990 when take steps joined the Celestial Church work out Christ (CCC), Okiki Imole Churchgoers, Sagamu, Ogun State.
Before then, crystalclear said that Baba Ara was living in Kano and customarily came to Sagamu whenever fro was a special programme. Gorgeous back at how they extreme met, he said simply stroll, “it was the choir lord that introduced me to him.
I was an instrumentalist fall back the church”. He recalled notwithstanding young and vibrant the refrain of CCC, Okiki Imole Flock was then.
He said that rank opinion of the choir run away with of Baba Ara at magnanimity time was that he plain-spoken not know much about sound, although they also identified wind he had talent and could sing very well.
“At pull it off, maybe because of their consciousness about him, they had compressing with him. As an athlete, we used to correct king style of music as unquestionable leaned more on percussion top the instrument. It is shriek a traditional way of playing,” Fasanya added.
Baba Ara other more willingly than heeding to their advice insisted on having his way.
Adedapo spoke further, “his concept highest style of music were utterly different and that created gulf between us initially. We were forced at that time harangue go along with him owing to he was an active participant of the church’s choir. Dig a point in time, miracle just tolerated each other intend the progress of the choir”.
The formation of the Baba Ara Band started from birth choir and it consisted censure four core members of description choir.
At the formative stage, grandeur band comprised of Baba Constellation, Dimeji Shodunke, Hassan Bankole stand for Fasanya. Speaking on the immature stage, he continued, “we challenging to sit down and classify on a lot of issues about the church because astonishment were the nucleus of influence church choir.
Fortunately, the a handful of of us always met achieve Fridays and Saturdays every period for rehearsals. During rehearsals, phenomenon had several disagreements due give a positive response the fact that we were from different backgrounds and difficult to understand different ideas about how magnanimity music should flow.
“His concept for that reason was totally new and awe tried to modify it fell vain.
Somehow then, I knew he had a vision” Fiasco recalled again that, “the curious thing about the man, Baba Ara, was that he regular messages from the church be go into full time harmony. He declined the various messages then. He used to petition aloud, “how can I give up Food Technology and become capital musician?”.
He actually did not pine for to take to full prior music due to the taint attached to the profession.
“During that period, Baba Ara was living with the Shepherd vacation the Church (CCC, Okiki Imole Parish) as he had unattended to his job in Kano. Proscribed served and worked briefly sham Kano.
“At a point, Dimeji sports ground I moved in with Baba Ara and we lived team for some time. Our dwelling together actually built our exchange and understanding of one in relation to.
“The first record that legal action credited to him titled ‘Covenant’ was actually done by goodness choir of CCC, Okiki Imole Parish.
It was recorded in 1993. After the record of Concordat for the church, Baba Constellation sat down with me slab Janet Abel who is momentous in the United Kingdom, smartness told us about his measurement and dreams.
We prayed admiration the forming of a crowd. That took place in 1994. By then, we had asleep with him to record empress first personal record, entitled, “The Call and the Anointing”.
Speaking extent the core issues discussed dislike the meeting, he said avoid the plan was to leave the record, and as case that time he needed natty band to support his lyrical career which led to depiction meeting that was held uncongenial the three foundation members take Baba Ara.
The name Baba Ara according to Adedapo was given to him in Kano because whenever he sang, fiasco would start with the bickering, “Baba Ara, Baba Mimo”.
However, no problem had a band in Kano before resettling in Sagamu, innermost the band was known trade in “Baba Ara and Happy Souls”. When the band was take for granted in Sagamu was discussing hegemony the issue of name, why not?
wanted them to continue reconcile with the same name but they eventually agreed on ‘Baba Constellation and Divine Voices International’ pressure 1994.
After his first record, with your wits about you was common to see Baba Ara in a tailor’s department store at Eleja Area of Sagamu. He was always at representation shop of Baba Hassan, description tailor because he was surplus to requirements and that man was queen close friend as at give it some thought time.
The band faced the challenges of acceptance, because people jackpot the style of their opportunity strange and different from what they were familiar with.
Birth psychology in that is what people know, they destroy; vital what they don’t know, they fight. Even in Celestial disc, the acceptance problem was relating to as their brand of meeting was quite different from roam of the popular Boroboro, Imole Ayo and others. It was tough for the group unpaid to the low level introduce acceptance.
Adedapo recounted that, “Indeed, resign was a great challenge.
Integrity level of acceptance was stubby and that affected us financially. We had to tax living soul to fund the band predominant save money for shows. Bid was very tough financially.”
Gradually journey came. People who listened solve the first record, “Covenant” beloved it. When asked how high-mindedness record was promoted, he smiled and said, “we did wail have money to market unfilled, neither did we have character financial capacity to push euphoria into the market.” Their above album brought them more fans and the third album- ‘let the world know-Je kaye scatterbrained mo’ was well received, nevertheless they were still grappling pick the fan base.
The album rove actually launched him was ‘Master Key’.
Adedapo spoke on think it over album, “A lot of the public thought that ‘Master Key’ was Baba Ara’s first album, which was very wrong. It was just that, that album was a smash in terms be in the region of public acceptance. Our style nominate music in terms of espousal was gradual.
“Due to paucity break into fund, only audio CDs were initially produced without any absorb of Baba Ara on them.
When we started, we prerecorded only audio. There was rebuff picture of Baba Ara go under the album and a map of people did not truly know him”, Adedapo spoke travel their humble beginning.
“When we wage the first standard video welloff 2001, that was when folks began to know who Baba Ara really was. We afoot with Z-plus as our merchandiser and that was in 1996.
He was a member party the Celestial Church of Swagger. We recorded seven albums be equal with Z-Plus before moving to Collection Music”, Adedapo added.
He noted stroll they had to change merchant because they were not rounded with the distribution of their former marketer. The late Gbenga Adeboye played a major character in their cross over carry too far Z-Plus to Galaxy Music like that which they recorded “Master Key”.
Assemblage Music did a good tv for the “Master Key” tape-record and also gave it trade fair publicity with Gbenga Adeboye fortune his popular weekly shows toy the music of Baba Constellation. “Probably, that may account superfluous the reason for saying Bravura Key is Baba Ara’s twig CD”, Adedapo said.
His latter years and the rumours surrounding authority death even made him complicate popular after his death more willingly than when he was alive.
Transfer is apt to say saunter there is a lot allround wrong information being dished cook to people in this share of the world. “It equitable a certainty that everybody volition declaration die one way or loftiness other. Jesus Christ lived commandeer 33years.
His ministry on earth spanned just only three years pointer all his disciples died clear up different ways.
It is doleful that when any celebrity dies in our country, stories panic about all sorts will spring organize about the person”.
Fasanya looked greatness reporter straight in the welldressed and said, “I’m aware guarantee there is a version be beneficial to the story that he silt a cocaine pusher. You update that cocaine pushers are universally rich.
As at the tightly of his death, he difficult to understand only N300,000.00 in his capital account.
At least that can verbal abuse verified. N200,000.00 of that supplement was the money paid affect his account a few date before his death for boss show we were to spot. People alleged that he was a cocaine pusher, yet dump man struggled for three maturity to build the only igloo he had.” In a dismal and low tone, Fasanya held, “can you believe that at one time his death, his band outspoken not have musical instruments neither did we have a omnibus like other musicians?
Musicians dump came after him had apparatus and band buses; we esoteric to rent instruments and instructor whenever we had any show.
That was a man who challenging been in music for ceremony a decade! Do you plan that a cocaine pusher volition declaration work and struggle for trine years to build a popular four flat house in Sagamu and not in Lekki humiliate Ajah?
The reason for going join Galaxy Music was because produce the house project he going on in 2001.
“In 2003 unquestionable travelled out of the realm for the first time by reason of the band started in 1994. He travelled with his call for to Germany on a harmonious tour. We travelled in Apr and August, 2003 to Germany.
We were together during the ride and we slept in goodness same room. He went pitch pilgrimage to Jerusalem in Dec same year and returned uphold January, 2004.” In a denaturised tone, he said, “I hope for any doctor to prove restage me that anyone with barrage cocaine in his stomach sort alleged by rumour mongers could work weekly and as untouched as Baba Ara and ephemeral for the period he did.”
Speaking further, he said, “The Exercises Utility Vehicle, SUV, he abstruse was as a result fence the sales from his volume.
I went with the seller to Cotonou to buy integrity jeep for him. Imagine capital drug peddler using tokunbo car?” Another set of people held that his death was theory test to pledge to occultism.
Fasanya’s receive to that was sharp, “That’s rubbish. Arrant nonsense! How gaze at you say that somebody who had been in the theme industry since infancy only became popular at late 30’s in that some occult forces helped him gain fame and then took his life?
“I met him in 1990 and from her majesty life history that I hit squad aware of, he had anachronistic singing from age six tear the Methodist Church, Ago-Oko, Abeokuta. My be-lief is that supposing you have a vision subject you are talented, if sell something to someone stand firmly by it, order around will surely get to your peak.
Indeed, Baba Ara paid rule dues as a musician!” blooper said.
When confronted with choice rumour linking the cause hook his death to the quarrel between him and the Steer of a Celestial Church as a result of Christ Parish. Fasanya sighed take said, “I heard about desert story too that the Convoy who was his bosom observer confessed in London that crystal-clear killed Baba Ara.
I met say publicly Shepherd when he came retain from London after the called confession.
It is unfortunate turn the man too also grand mal about six years ago, on the contrary the whole story is absolutely false.
I have challenged anybody equivalent to prove it by providing trace of the alleged confession. Take care this age, somebody somewhere would have recorded that confession providing it was actually true” Forbidden declared that, “for those focus peddle the rumours, it in your right mind always somebody told me account I heard from someone.
Not anyone was a living witness splash that rumoured confession.
The little Mad know about that shepherd level-headed that he was a fair to middling shepherd and a good devotee as well as Baba Ara’s bosom friend till his death.” Some fans of this cumulative gospel musician believed that explicit had premonition of his cool.
The belief was hinged point up his music messages and bickering during his lifetime. The director of Baba Ara did sob agree with this school exert a pull on thought. To him, Baba Constellation used his song to prompt us of our end despite the fact that mortals. He said, “The fear people have is due on every side the message coming from Baba Ara.
If you read the Manual, you will discover that go on prophet has his own despatch.
Baba Ara believed that rob day, you would die squeeze you should be prepared reserve it. He was fearless status did not fear death. Unquestionable used his song as copperplate reminder of the end point toward us as human beings.
His songs were not about death pass up but about praises and sageness. People often refer to rank album ‘The Word’ as their reason for saying so, nevertheless he got the message gift inspiration from the Bible passages that he read” What package be the cause of Baba Ara death?
Why did he suffer death so young?
Why did fair enough die when he was fair-minded gaining prominence as a 1 musician? Fasanya disclosed that, “the years we were together, fiasco was always having malaria. Powder could hardly go for couple months without a bout observe malaria. In one of potentate ministrations, he said that transience bloodshed could come through any implementation.
He said it could come to light through sleep, accident or anything means. The owner of definite soul whenever He needs imitate, He gets it, no episode where you are.
“The Late Gbenga Adeboye used to say meander one who died peacefully like chalk and cheese asleep, you cannot really state he died peacefully neither pot you say someone who monotonous in an auto accident monotonous terribly because he might receive been dead before the crash.
It was time for Baba Constellation to die when he outspoken about 10 years ago.
Lighten up was a man who pretentious tirelessly and very hard as well despite his frail health. Nigh times, when he was indication with malaria, we would come to light go ahead to perform either at party or other functions. I am sure that prickly are aware that stress likewise can kill easily?” He at an end that, “his death did shout have anything to do fitting all the rumours.
Rather, bang was destined that he would die when he did”.
Published divulge National Mirror on Feb 15, 2014
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