page_title: Enugu
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Enugu / Entertainment / Music
caption_attribution_description: English: Flavour N'abania at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
context_page_description: Enugu is the capital of Enugu State in Nigeria. It is located in southeastern Nigeria. The city had a population of 722,664 according to the 2006 Nigerian census. The name Enugu is derived from the two Igbo words Énú Ụ́gwụ́ meaning "hill top" denoting the city's hilly geography. The city was named after [Enugwu Ngwuo]], under which coal was found.
  Enugwu Ngwuo is one of the ten villages that made up the Ngwuo clan, often referred to as the children of Ngwuako, the ancestral founder of the clan. Ngwuako positioned Udeneogu, his worrior son of on top of the hill to protect the clan from invaders. Enugwu Ama Udeneogu,
  The people lived on the hilltop and farmed the sprawling surrounding valleys.
  Ngwuo has borders with Oshie clan in the south, Ojebeogene clan in the north and Nkanu clan in the east.
context_section_description: Enugu rose as an important centre for Highlife music in Nigeria in the 1950s. The Igbo dominated version of the genre grew out of earlier "Igbo blues" or "palm wine music" and further spread in popularity to the Southern Cameroons where Enugu had considerable influence in arts and culture in towns such as Limbe, Tiko and Douala. Some prominent musicians with origins in Enugu include Sonny Okosun, an afrobeat musician who was born and raised in Enugu and joined his first band The Postmen that was based in the city in 1965; Celestine Ukwu joined Michael Ejeagha's Enugu based Paradise Rhythm Orchestra in 1962 before creating his own band and had a recreational club in the city after the Nigeria Civil War; other musicians include 2Face Idibia; a Hip hop/R&B musician who partly grew up and studied music in the city. Other notable musicians originating from Enugu include rapper Phyno, Slowdog, William Onyeabor, and highlife musician Flavour N'abania.
caption: Flavour N'abania at the 2014 Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards
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