Artist Name: Atanda Adeniji Adewale BandName: Atanda

Àtànda is a recording artiste , a songwriter, an arranger , a performer , a musicologist and also the founder of Afrojazz messengers, a musical band founded in the year 2016. Atanda is a graduate of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education and Lagos State University. The band Afrojazz Messengers plays a style of music that incorporates the use of English and deep rooted African poems and proverbs been fused into Afro beats , jazz, blues and folk music. Our style of music is best described as an indigenous style of music which is characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic structure with solo and repeated choruses (call and response) with sophisticated African harmonic idioms .Over the years the band has toured wide performing in high profile events and festivals like Market for African performing arts(MASA) in Ivory Coast,Felabration,Lagos international jazz festival, Africa young Entrepreneur conference (A.Y.E),Afrocentric rhythms concert 1-4, Eniobanke music festival (Emufest) , Femi Kuti @50 concert, and many more. Our versatility, knowledge and experience has established us as one of the finest big band in Nigeria and Africa.