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Tunji Sowande was a Nigeria-born United Kingdom lawyer and musician. == Early life == Tunji Sowande was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1912 to a fairly wealthy local family by standards –his father being the Anglican Priest- Emmanuel Sowande, a pioneer of church music in Lagos and contemporary of the distinguished classical composer and organist Ekundayo Phillips. His was a musical family, with his older brother being none other than the renowned Classical composer Fela Sowande, described by Wikipedia as "the father of modern Nigerian art music, Sowande is perhaps the most internationally known African composer of works in the European "classical" idiom.” Tunji Sowande had his early education at the CMS Anglican Grammar School in Lagos and proceeded to the Yaba Higher College, where he obtained a Diploma in Pharmacy on or about 1940. As was the practice, he worked with the Public Health department in Lagos as a Dispensing Pharmacist for a number of years. His contemporary being the late Adeyinka Oyekan, his good friend, who was later to become the Oba (King) of Lagos. He is also said to have subsequently set up a private Pharmacy business alongside the said Oyekan In the family tradition, Tunji was an excellent Baritone Singer, Organist, and later a Jazz Drummer and Saxaphonist. Largely plying his musical skills in the conservative surroundings of the Anglican Cathedral in Lagos in his spare-time. He got married in 1938 and had 2 children, Ayo and Tunde who later joined him in the UK, where they were educated, before returning to Nigeria in their adult years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tunji Sowande」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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