Ojo Okeji

Minor member of the renowned Lagos's "Cool Cats" band in which he played the claves. [a1657761] had played the double bass in the Cool Cats and given Okeji lessons on the instrument. In 1963 Okeji moved from Lagos to the city of Ibadan, where was the bassist in Etubom Rex Williams & His Nigerian Artistes and then later with The Western Toppers Band fronted by Moses Adeolu Akinsanya. In 1964 Fela Kuti to recruit him as the foundation of his new group Koola Lobitos (without Fela VC 7) and helped Fela assemble the rest of the band (among which Tony Allen and Abayomi Adio "Easy"). In 1968 Okeji and Adio secretly absconded from Fela and went to sign up to the army to then later form a new band. Assigned to the 6th Infantry Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Okeji's new band was outfitted in smart blue jackets emblazoned with the number "6", inspiring their popular identification as "The Blues" but Okeji preferred the name Shango. The records were not sold to the public, very few copies were pressed, and they were distributed only within the army. Okeji and Adio stayed with the army until the end of the seventies and Okeji released a few more records, changing his name to Segun Okeji, the name of his group to the Afro Super-Feelings, and his primary instrument from bass to saoxophone.