Ara, the self-proclaimed queen of drums, has revealed that she was forced to learn on her own after her male counterparts refused to teach her.
Aralola Olamuyiwa, who is generally realized by her stage name Ara, uncovered this data in a meeting about her profession on Channels television.
wouldn't instruct her.
"I figured out how to play the talking drum by watching the folks play since they wouldn't educate me. Along these lines, I watched them play. I purchased the music of individuals that I gaze upward to in the business,"
She likewise referenced that to work on her art and widen her creative skylines, she needed to pay attention to different sounds performed via prepared Nigerian performers.
"My dad had an enormous assortment from Fela to Ayinla Omo Wura to Yusuf Olatunji to Lord Radiant Ade and everyone. So I figured out how to play with them. I paid attention to even Lagbaja when I was figuring out how to play since I love Lagbaja a ton. So I paid attention to the entirety of their music and I prepared my ear to listen contrastingly and play in an unexpected way."
With a vocation crossing more than twenty years, Ara is a female vocalist, performer, talking drummer, and the social minister of the Ooni of Ife. She is the chief female drummer in Africa.