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left school on his fifteenth birthday (the legally permissable day) because
he felt that to continue school would merely divert him from his real
purpose in life. In 1980 Tunji went back to Nigeria to study Yoruba
percussion. In 1986 he went to South India to study classical indian
percussion and stayed there for three years to receive the highest mark in
the state exam for percussion.

Performed in Nigeria with leading Yoruba Percussionists including Muraina
Oyelami, Ademola Onibonokuta & the Ayandosun family of drummers for
installations of Kings, Masquerades & Acrobats, funerals, festivals & many
social events.

Concerts throughout South India with Karnataka College Of Percussion
and famous singers R.A.Ramamani, Raghavendra, Ashok & many other singers
and instrumentalists. European Tours with Karnataka College of Percussion
and cellist Anup Kumar Biswas. Live jam with Zakir Hussain in Budapest.

Wide experience of fusion with African, Indian, Spanish, Indonesian,
Norwegian, Macedonian & Classical European music and worked with Markus
Stockhausen, Ronald Snijders, Mohamed El Toukhi, Ross Daly, Jaume Bosser,
Wafir Sheik El Din, Greg Sheehan, Djamchid Chemirani, Agus Super,
Terje Isungset, Satsuki Odamura, Volker Jaekel, Mathew Doyle, Thomas
Stronen, Stepanida Borisova (Hulu Project), Linsey Pollak, Matthias
Loibner, Hossam Ramsy Spanish & Indian group Amalgama, Keyvan Chemirani,
Bijan Chemirani and many others.

Collaboration with leading jazz musicians Bill Cobham, Iain Ballamy,
Oren Marshal, Ashley Slater, Trilok Gurtu, Randy Weston, Charlie Mariano,
Burton Greene, Chris Hinze, Dave King.

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