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About OwerriBongo.com
Owerribongo.com is your home for Owerri Bongo Music. Bongo music is a genre of highlife music of West Africa with a unique rhythm. It’s a music that teaches, entertains, and preserves the history and culture of the Igbo people. It came from cultural music of different communities in Owerri South-eastern Nigeria, through the introduction of the ‘bongo’ drum as the lead.
It also incorporates with other western musical instruments; bongo music is characterized by the dominance of the drums during performance.
It is called in Igbo Language “Egwu Obioma”, which means music that makes you happy. “ also called “Gbama Rema” that means music that you dance with style.
Bongo music has gone worldwide, people all over the world listen and dance to Bongo music, in their cars, at the event, in their homes. People always confess that when they play bongo music in their car while going on a long trip, it makes the long trip seem shorter because of the sweet melody in bongo music.
There is no particular way to dance bongo music, it rhymes with many dance moves, including break dance. The beat will move you.
Many Igbos and non-Igbos are proud of bongo music as it continues to promote our culture.
We have both the old and New Bongo Albums. Listen before you buy. You will get to download the songs and also get a hard copy of the CD. We are here to promote their hard work.
