Lemmy Jackson
Otu Udofa, professionally known as Lemmy Jackson, is a Nigerian music producer who produced songs for many prominent Nigerians artists of the 1980s. He produced Wait for Me a duet by Onyeka Onwenu and King Sunny Adé, he also worked with Alex O, the Mandators, Tera Kota and Ras Kimono.
Life
[edit]Jackson was educated at QIC Primary School, Eket and at the Etinan Institute. He later studied metallurgy in Russia before moving to England. In London, Jackson worked as a session musician, an encounter with Laolu Akins and his band BLO [1] led to him playing as a keyboardist for BLO.[2] His career took off in 1981 after he was hired as an in-house producer by Pail Aifuwa, a businessman who had founded a new record label, Time Communications in Lagos.[2] At Time, he produced Oby Onyioha's record I Want To Feel Your Love and also Tonight, Jackson's debut album. In addition, Jackson performed production duties on Christy Essien-Igbokwe's Ever Liked My Person.[2] Both his record and that of Onyioha were recorded at Haruna Isbola's Phondisk Studio in Ijebu-Ode and as was common in that era it was sent to London for mixing.[2]
Jackson later joined EMI and got into producing reggae records.[3] He was a session musician and producer on Ras Kimono's What's Gwan? and produced Tera Kota's Lamentation of Sodom in 1984.[4] He also contributed production wise to The Mandators third album Rebel[3] and also produced Majek Fashek's Send Down the Rain[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "BLO". Radiodiffusion Internasionaal Annexe. 2009-09-20. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
- ^ a b c d Razor, Comb & (2007-11-26). "with comb & razor: On: The Quincy Jones of Nigeria, woman singers and the London Era of Nigerian music". with comb & razor. Retrieved 2018-12-31.
- ^ a b Steffens, Roger (1991). "REGGAE THE DELIVERANCE OF NIGERIA". The Beat. Vol. 10, no. 5. pp. 34–37.
- ^ Onwuegbuna, Ikenna Emmanuel (2015-07-25). Trends in African Popular Music: Socio-Cultural Interactions and the Reggae Genre in Nigeria. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781503587908.
- ^ Himes, G. (Sep 7, 1990). "Fashek's reggae needs african beat". The Washington Post – via ProQuest.
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