Multiple award winning artiste, 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. His band has graced several performance stages around the world with its original Afrobeat music.

The beautiful touring experience of his band was also recorded on the tour of Ethiopia in December 2013 – January 2014 and 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- French Cultural 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 and WordSlam’s Festivals.

He is also a regular performer at the yearly Felabration Festival in Lagos. In 2017, Edaoto was featured in a CNN Anthony Bourdain’s documentary of ‘Part’s Unknown’.

His band, the Afrogenius 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’.

Phassy Law Wordsmith

Photo Credit:
Dewunmi Lagos