Hallelujah is a heavenly language and a sound of victory.
This were the words of Nathaniel Bassey in his recent music which he called
Hallelujah Eh. It’s one of the track from his Revival Album released early
2017.
ABOUT
NATHANIEL BASSEY
Nathaniel Bassey was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He is from Ikot
Ofon Ikono, Uyo local government area in Akwa-Ibom state, South-South Nigeria.
His father, Mr E Joshua Bassey, was a minister in The Apostolic Church Bashua
Assembly and from an early age he developed a love for both music and the
gospel.
In his early years, he developed a rather uncommon interest
for jazz music and began listening, imitating and playing to the music of Louis
Armstrong, Miles Davies, Clifford Brown, Charlie Parker, Stan Getz and Kirk
Whalum, Phil Driscoll, Hugh Masakela and other Jazz luminaries. His zeal for
the Jazz form would later stir him to seek out bands and groups along the Jazz
lines. He then joined a top jazz quartet in Lagos, Spectrum 4, where he played
alongside his childhood friends.
About that time Nat, as he is fondly called, was approached
by one of the most respectable figures in the Nigerian jazz and music circle,
Elder Steve Rhodes to lead, arguably, the first Jazz Orchestra in the country –
THE STEVE RHODES ORCHESTRA. He served as band leader and lead trumpet player
for a period of two years and later moved on with his music career. His
peculiar and particularly soulful trumpet playing style caught the ears of top
Artistes and composers within and outside the country. Teemac, Ayo Bankole Jr,
Cobhams Asuquo, Wole Oni, Yinka Davies, Adlan Cruise, Funsho Ogundipe, Peter
King, Sotiris Papadopoulus, Paul Petersen, The French Cultural centre, American
International School, are but a few individuals and organizations that have sought
his musical ingenuity.
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