{"id":555,"date":"2012-01-09T12:25:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T12:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/?p=555"},"modified":"2012-01-09T20:37:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T20:37:12","slug":"jajah-plays-his-last-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/jajah-plays-his-last-tune.html","title":{"rendered":"JaJah plays his last tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Master drummer and instrument maker JaJah Onilu has passed away. Jah Jah, together with the Mau Mau drummers, came to prominence in the wake of the 1970 Black Power upheaval in Trinidad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master percussionist JaJah Oga Onilu died Friday at age 57. His family wishes to keep the cause of his death private. Onilu died at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, at 8.15 pm. In an interview yesterday, his youngest son Modupe, 25, said although his father\u2019s health was \u201cnot 100 per cent,\u201d his passing came as a shock. Onilu leaves to mourn his three children\u2014Baba, Modupe and Oshun\u2014as well as his wife and his 87-year-old mother, who lives abroad.<\/p>\n<p>JaJah is featured in the following youtube video of a Jewels of Nature performance.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZmvuvQFKGDQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Modupe said: \u201cHis death came as a shock because we spent Old Year\u2019s night into New Year\u2019s Day, laughing and talking about plans for the new year.\u201d He said his father\u2019s last major performance was in Tobago last year where he played with Ella Andal at the Baba Maal concert. Onilu formed the band Jewels of Nature and was known for his organic music and musical instruments. Funeral arrangements have not been finalised. Modupe said there would be a commemoration of Onilu\u2019s life at the Little Carib Theatre on a date to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>For original post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/monday-january-9-2012\/jajah-plays-his-last-tune\">JaJah plays his last tune | The Trinidad Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master drummer and instrument maker JaJah Onilu has passed away. Jah Jah, together with the Mau Mau drummers, came to prominence in the wake of the 1970 Black Power upheaval in Trinidad. Master percussionist JaJah Oga Onilu died Friday at age 57. His family wishes to keep the cause of his death private. Onilu died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[211,5],"tags":[230,232,231],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-music","tag-jah-jah-onilu","tag-jewel-of-nature","tag-mau-mau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zx0X-8X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}