Edaoto

Bio

Multiple award winning Edaoto Agbeniyi leads the world touring Edaoto & the Afrogenius Band. An 11pcs Afrobeat band
that propagates African aesthetics with a blend of intellectual engagement, plays Afrobeat in its folkloric
state and applies Yorùbá culture and artistic competence as a strategy for development.

In 2017, Ẹdaọtọ and the Afrogenius Band completed its European tour from the prestigious Ancienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium as an opening act for the Arsenal Band.
https://youtu.be/zhBGZbLWFG8

Our band has graced several performance stages around the world with its original Afrobeat music. 

Beautiful touring experience of the Band was also recorded on the tour of Ethiopia in Dec2013 – Jan2014. 
Yoruba Youth Congress, 2012, Detriot, MI, US. 

Edaoto was an international guest at the Harare Int. Festival of the Art (HIFA2012)Zimbabwe, 

Bayimba International Festival of the Art, Kampala, Uganda 2012.
Goethe Institu- FrenchCultural Center’s 2011 World Music Day celebration, 

Edaoto was part of the team of artistes that performed at the opening ceremony of the under 17 FIFAWorld Cup Nigeria 2009, 

French Cultural Center-Nigeria Television Authority’s 2009 World Music Day celebration, 

Ife Poetry Festivals, NaiJazz  2008, WordSlam’s Festivals
The Band is also a regular performer at the yearly Felabration Festival in Lagos.
Edaoto was also featured in a CNN Anthony Bourdain's documentary of 'Part's Unknown' in 2017 

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2017/10/12/anthony-bourdain-parts-unkn... 

Indeed, The band has since transcended a commentary once made some years ago by an art critic 'Ropo Ewenla, that: 'Edaoto and the Afrogenius Band is a bomb awaiting explosion', the Guardian Newspaper. 

Agbeniyi Edaoto Olaolu

+2348035286370, +2348033448236 
edaotogangan@yahoo.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Edaotomusic

www.soundcloud.com/edaoto-agbeniyi

www.youtube.com/edaoto

www.twitter.com/edaoto

www.google.com/edaoto 

Video link:    

https://youtu.be/zdkOwBFgsno

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkmlsb_FdWI 

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Day 2 Ẹdaọtọ @Accienne Belgique, Brussels with Arsenal Band
Day 1 Ẹdaọtọ @Accienne Belgique.

Music

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Fight On
05:00
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RRC
07:15
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Udeme
05:18
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Had I
08:01
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Blackman
09:05
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05 MSS
05:41
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06 Feni foro 1
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01 Track 01 20
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Edaoto - Push on
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Videos

12 October 2023
My name is Ẹdaọtọ!
Day 3, Edaoto @AccienneBelgique
Day 2 Ẹdaọtọ @Accienne Belgique, Brussels with Arsenal Band
Day 1 Ẹdaọtọ @Accienne Belgique.
Accienne Belgique, 2023
Ọ̀ṣun
Medley
Ire {Edaoto live in Belgium}
Alakiti {Edaoto live in Accienne Belgique, Brussels, Belgium}
Kajọwapọ {Edaoto live in Belgium}
folklore at its best!
28 October 2022
Folklore medley
Folklores for Jimi Solankẹ @ 80
Ire {snipet from Felabration 2022 @Freedom} pack
Listen {Edaoto live in Belgium}
Edaoto {i-OPES Concert}
Rehearsal mood. (Alliance Française, Lagos).
RRC Rehearsal at Sambol studios, Lagos.
17 June 2022
Alakiti
Listen!
Agége
Fẹni fọrọ
Edaoto Alakiti {Felabration 2018)
Edaoto ORISA OKE
Edaoto SUURU
Edaoto KIRA KITA
Edaoto BLACK MAN
RRC {Revolution Now!}
RRC - Revolution Now! Trailer.
Squad One at ROWE
Stay safe
Ẹ̀yọ̀ from January ROWE
Edaoto live at Blackdrum Sessions
Edaoto Agbeniyi Live Stream
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Edaoto @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels Belgium December 2017
Edaoto in Ethiopia III
Edaoto in Ethiopia II
Edaoto in Ethiopia
Edaoto in Kajowapo
Edaoto (audio) Kajowapo
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edaoto and the afrogenius band

Photos

NGLagos, Nigeria
In operation since: 
2000

Contact

+2348035286370
Edaoto Agbeniyi

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