Peter Alanta, a popular Ajegunle
musician and the originator of Alanta Dance, is dead.
Daily Post reports that the singer
passed on moments ago after battling undisclosed illness for
months.
Alanta came into the limelight in
the early 2000s with his hit song, entitled Alanta. Raymond King and Artquake
also remixed the song.
The latest reigning dance, Shaku
Shaku was said to have being derived from his popular dance.
The deceased, whose contemporaries
are Marvelous Benji, Oriste Femi, Professor Linkin, Omo Jesu, also had other
hit songs to his credit.
Confirming the sad incident, his
colleague and friend, Kimi Rankin, slammed his fans for abandoning him.
He said, “When Alanta was alive
who cared? How many of us showed him love?”
Also reacting to the sad incident,
Denge Pose crooner, Baba Fryo called on musicians who benefited from the
deceased’s intellectual work to ‘do something.’
He said, “I just saw this post on
Facebook that peter Aka Alanta the Originator of Alanta dance is dead, if it is
true, those popular artistes who benefited from his creative work should do
something.”
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