SALAWA Abeni - The first Yoruba female artist to sell over a million copies in Nigeria

She rose from an housemaid to become a famous Waka singer

Salawa Abeni Alidu was born on 5 May 1961. An Ijebu Yoruba woman from Ijebu Waterside, in Ogun State.

Indigenous Yoruba music legends would not be complete without the mention of a talented woman who modernised Waka music, Queen Salawa Abeni. Born into a polygamous home in Igbogun, one of the mangrove villages that border Ogun and Lagos state...

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