My style of music is to showcase Yoruba culture to the world - Olori Obalufe

Olori Oluwatoyin Adediwura, popularly called FloxyBee, is the elegant wife of HRM Idowu Olaniyi Adediwura, Jamolaya I, Obalufe of Ife, Osun State. In this interview with Glitter News Online Crew, Yeye Osun of Modakeke enumerated why Yoruba Culture must be guarded jealousy and transferred carefully from one generation to another, what led her into music and the reason why she titled her latest work ‘Palongo Tolongo’ among other salient issues: Here are some of our interactions with her: "People do not respect you for who you are again but rather for what the can get from you and mostly women fall into this category because they are cheated most of the time. "To me, this is hypocritical. There is no love there, rather what we have is bondage and oppression". The traditional musician and music ambassador who prides herself as the Queen of Hikosso music maintained that her music was woven around the fight to emancipate the women folk. She acknowledged that the African society especially Nigeria was patriarchal adding the there was nothing that could be done to reverse the trend but women and their feelings should be respected for positive change to be achieved? "The tracks in my latest album captures it all. It talks about how the Yoruba civilization and identity should be preserved, respect for women and their emotional feelings, being mindful of our actions because they have consequences both positive and negative and also the need to revisit songs of yester years". The musician who holds the traditional title of Yeye Mokun, Yeye Mosa of Oba-Ile and Yeye Asa of Iyanfoworogi all in Osun state also hinted that upon conducting a survey amongst prominent Yoruba Obas, she was given a mandate to do whatever was in her power to ensure the survival of Yoruba tradition and culture through her works. "I see this as a calling which has also received the blessings and royal endorsement from my fathers and I intend to do whatever it takes to advance the Yoruba civilization. "I am a very traditional person and this mandate given me has further emboldened me not to relent and I know my husband the Obalufe of Ife, HRM Oba Idowu Olaniyi Adediwura, Jamolaya 1 is solidly behind me and for that I am a very happy woman". "As part of my calling, I have also ventured into television and my programme 'Yeye Asa' will also be an avenue to carry out the royal assignment given me", she added.