įollowing the death of his 17-year-old brother, D’banj arranged all his possessions on his bed after they were brought home and just picked up his harmonica. With D’banj’s love for music being greater than his parents’ military aspirations, he struggled for his parents’ approval this can be best heard through an album track, All Da Way from his debut album. There he completed his secondary school education.ĭ’banj was introduced to the harmonica by his late older brother, Femi Oyebanjo, who died in a plane crash at age seventeen. From the Nigerian Military School he proceeded to another military owned institution Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Ibara, Abeokuta where he was a church worker. While at the Military school he was a member of the elite drum corp of the Nigerian Army. However, D’banj resisted the system and disenrolled from the school after three years. D’banj was expected to follow his father’s military career and was enrolled to the Nigerian Military School at age eleven. Due to his father’s profession he moved several times within Nigeria and later moved to England. DOWNLOAD Dbanj _ Knocking On My Door – Mp3ĭ’banj, also known as the Kokomaster or Bangalee, was born in 9 June 1980 in Zaria, the northern part of Nigeria to a military officer who commanded an artillery regiment and a devout church dignitary businesswoman who hailed from Shagamu in Ogun State.
