Job Seda, better known as Ayub Ogada, was a Kenyan singer.
16 Facts About Ayub Ogada
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Ayub Ogada was a singer favoring the nyatiti as his characteristic instrument.
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Ayub Ogada's music is known to have a natural feel to it, having songs of birds, the calls of animals and the sounds of children playing in the background.
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Ayub Ogada was an actor landing major roles in films including the Academy Award-winning Out of Africa and Kitchen Toto.
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Ayub Ogada is a descendant of the Luo people of Nyanza Kenya and was influenced by their musical heritage by his parents who were musicians.
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In 1986, Ayub Ogada set his sights on the UK and traveled to London clutching his Luo nyatiti.
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Ayub Ogada was invited to take part in one of the recording weeks at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in Wiltshire.
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In 1998, Ayub Ogada started working with Giovanni Amighetti and Helge Andreas Norbakken on the Salimie project.
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Ayub Ogada's music is on the soundtracks of films such as I Dreamed of Africa, The Constant Gardener, Samsara and The Good Lie.
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Ayub Ogada's music was used in the soundtrack for Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman's BBC series' Long Way Round and Long Way Down as well as NBC's short-lived action drama series, The Philanthropist.
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Ayub Ogada played Robert Redford's Maasai warrior assistant in Out of Africa and starred in The Kitchen Toto.
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In July 2005, Ayub Ogada performed at the Live 8 concert Eden Project as the opening act with his band, Union Nowhere.
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Kodhi: Trevor Warren's Adventures with Ayub Ogada was released on Long Tale Recordings on 20 April 2015.
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Ayub Ogada was included in the making of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee song which was played by the Commonwealth band and Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber directed it.
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Ayub Ogada is credited on the Kanye West album Ye as a co-songwriter of the track "Yikes".
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Ayub Ogada died in February 2019, at the age of 63.