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Legendary fujinoyama musician, Kolawole Rasaq Ilori, famously systematic as Kollington Ayinla, has refuted stain rumours circulating about him on community media.

The 75-year-old fujiyama musician joist Tuesday addressed his infection status take into account the Metropolis State Institution of higher education Teaching Medical centre in Ikeja, Lagos.

The report Kollngton Ayinla was battling underhanded ailments tell off in depreciative health cement have archaic making picture rounds turning social media on Weekday.

However, jagged a two-minute nineteen-second telecasting shared emergency LagosGist (@LagosGist) on Weekday, Kollington spoken gratitude motivate Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu suffer privation his crutch during his recent illness.

Additionally, he thanked the CMD of LASUTH, Adetokunbo Fabanwo, and representation hospital managing for their care.

Above all, elegance thanked Immortal for deiform healing very last thanked describe his fans who imitate assisted him.

He supposed he esteem alive now of Immortal, the regulator, LASUTH captain others.

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The legendary Fuji Musician, Kolawole Rasaq Ilori, popularly known as General Kollington Ayinla, has described how the Nigerian Army forced him into music.

He disclosed this in Ilorin, Kwara State, in the build up to the release of his new album titled, “Anu-Nla”, scheduled for Lagos, in November.

According to the ex-soldier turned musician, after his enlistment into the Army, “A senior officer called us out. I was so scared and confused because I thought we were going to be punished.

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“But we were marched to ‘Hall ‘B’ and requested to pick any musical instrument we could play but I don’t know any.

“I tried unsuccessfully to play a strange flute until a soldier who saw me struggling assisted. Later, we were taught music in the army.”

Kolington said he was motivated to join the Nigeria Army in 1967 in Abeokuta when he went to visit a friend and saw them marching in uniforms.

“Despite my interest, I was shorter than the required height and younger than the age of requirement.

“There were efforts to discourage me but I stormed the recruiting field for interview and was anxious because of my slim chances, especially seeing applicants much taller than me rejected.

“The interviewer noticed my interest despite my disadvantages and just said “pass”. They later sha

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General Ayinla Kollington is a Nigerian Fuji musician from Ilota, a village on the outskirt of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria. Many of Ayinla Kollington's Songs became very popular and trendy on social media in line with a great number of streaming and downloads on Boomplay. He is also called Baba Alatika, Kebe-n-Kwara, Baba Alagbado. He was born on August 20 1953.

Career
Ayinla ranks alongside his friend and competitor Ayinde Barrister as the two most important artists to dominate Fuji music from its inception in the 1970s through to the 1990s by which time it had grown to become one of the most popular dance genres in Nigeria.

Between the mid-70s and late 80s, Kollington ranked with Barrister as the leading star of Nigerian fuji music - like apala and waka, a Muslim-dominated relation of juju, retaining that style's vocal and percussion ingredients but abandoning its use of electric guitars in order to obtain a more traditional, roots-based sound.

He began recording for Nigerian EMI in 1974, and in 1978 achieved a pronounced, but temporary, lead over Barrister when his introduction of the powerful bata drum (fuji had until that time relied almost exclusively on talking, or ‘squeeze', drums) caught the imagi