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Ayub Ogada (* 1956, † 1. Februar 2019), eigentlich Job Seda, war ein kenianischer Sänger und Instrumentalist. Bekannt wurde sein Lied Kothbiro durch den Film Der ewige Gärtner, in dem es mehrmals zu hören ist. Darüber hinaus wirkte er beispielsweise an Peter Gabriels Album Us mit.

Sein Instrument war die Nyatiti, eine traditionelle achtseitige Leier der Luo. Außerdem fügte er häufig Naturlaute in seine Lieder ein, etwa Vogelstimmen oder Kinderlachen.

Ayub Ogada war darüber hinaus (auch unter seinem Geburtsnamen) als Schauspieler tätig, er ist in Jenseits von Afrika und Kitchen Toto zu sehen.

Biography

Ayub Ogada was born in 1956 in Mombasa, Kenya. He is a descendant of the Luo people of Nyanza Kenya and was influenced by their musical heritage by his parents who were musicians. They performed Luo music to Kenyan and US audiences. Ayub’s experience of travelling with his parents to the US and his exposure to both western and African cultures had a profound effect on his music and outlook.

While at school in Kenya, Ayub played various instruments in bands and embraced both traditional and modern music. In 1979, after leaving school, he co-founded the African Heritage Band, fusing traditional music with the sounds of rock and soul that Ogada and his bandmates heard regularly on the radio.

In 1986, Ayub set his sights on the UK and traveled to London clutching his Luo nyatiti (an eight-string traditional lyre). He scraped a living by busking on the city’s streets and the London underground. In 1988, he was approached and asked to play at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival in Cornwall. His breakthrough came there. Perchance a band cancelled and Ayub’s ten-minute slot stretched to a full set. Among the won over fans that day was Peter Gabriel himself.

Ayub was invited to take part in one of the recording weeks at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios in Wiltshire. In 1992 he sang Backingvocals on Peter Gabriel’s Track Digging in the Dirt together with Peter Hammill and Richard MacPhail. In 1993, he recorded his first album En Mana Kuoyo (Just Sand) at the studio and he toured extensively with Peter Gabriel and WOMAD.

In 1998, Ayub started working with Giovanni Amighetti and Helge Andreas Norbakken on the Salimie project. Playing several gigs including a concert in Rome in front of the Roman Colosseum for FAO and recording the Tanguru album for Intuition.

Ayub’s music is on the soundtracks of films such as I Dreamed of Africa (2000), The Constant Gardener (2005), Samsara (2011) and The Good Lie (2014). His music was also used in the soundtrack for Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman’s BBC series' Long Way Round and Long Way Down as well as NBC's short-lived action drama series, The Philanthropist.

Ayub has also acted under his birth name, Job Seda. He played Robert Redford's Masaii warrior sidekick in Out of Africa (1985) and also starred in The Kitchen Toto (1987).

"Kothbiro", was included in a secuence, and in the soundtrack of the mexican film "La Habitación Azul", 2002.

In July 2005, Ayub Ogada performed at the Live 8 concert Eden Project as the opening act with his band, Union Nowhere. They released the album Tanguru in 2007, the year Ayub moved back to Kenya.

In 2012, the English musician Trevor Warren went to Kenya to visit Ayub. Together with the Kenyan musician and engineer Isaac Gem, they composed and recorded the album Kodhi (meaning seed in Luo). Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada was released on Long Tale Recordings on 20 April 2015. Ayub was also included in the making of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee song which was played by the Commonwealth band and Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber directed it.Vorlage:Citation needed

He is credited on the Kanye West album, Ye, as a co-songwriter of the track, "Yikes".

He died in February 2019, at the age of 63.

Discography

Albums

• 1993: En Mana Kuoyo
• 1998: Tanguru
• 2015: Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada

Singles

• 2005: "Dicholo"
• 1993: "Koth Biro" was featured on the soundtrack of the movie The Constant Gardener, which was a political thriller shot in Kenyan location.

See also

• Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania

Einzelnachweise

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[[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Kenyan musicians]] [[Category:Kenyan Luo people]] [[Category:Real World Records artists]]