Highlife crooner and Afrobeat singer Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode died, according to his wife Latoya Aduke, in his sleep on April 15, 2022. A titan of Nigerian highlife had passed on at 79. With a career spanning almost six decades, Orlando Julius stamped his foot on the sands of history, promoting his talents and laundering his country’s image across the globe. Orlando Julius played the saxophone with dexterity, and ultimately became a pioneering force behind Afrobeat music: a genre which was later adopted and promoted by the famous Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Highlife music originated in Ghana in the early…