Person · 1971–1973 · Lagos [6.46, 3.39]
Igo Chico
Igo Chico was the Nigerian tenor saxophonist who took the featured solo voice in Africa 70 during the early 1970s, his playing prominent on the band's first wave of afrobeat albums. He shared the front line with Fela's own horn work before departing the group in the early 1970s, after which Fela increasingly took up the saxophone himself. His sound belongs to the founding records of the genre.
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- MusicBrainz: Igo ChicoMusicBrainz
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collaborates with → Africa 70
Igo Chico was the featured tenor saxophonist of Africa 70 through the early 1970s, his solos central to the band's first afrobeat albums before he left mid-decade. His voice is one of the defining instrumental colours of the genre's founding records.