Micheal Bakare Adeleke [Profile]

Cr. Micheal Bakare

Bakare Micheal Adeleke is a  multi-talented musician with a deep interest in music pedagogy, choral pedagogy, composition, performance, and recording.
A seasoned minister of the gospel, prolific writer, peace advocate, tinkerer, poet and life coach, a music educator per excellence, church musician, Afro-classic pianist, choral conductor, intercultural musicologist, voice coach, songwriter, creative entrepreneur and a trendsetter.

He is the convener of Ramb Music Africa a non-profiting music academy with the art of providing music education to the landscape of Africa and the world at large, in tandem to be the frontier for music education in Early childhood.

He has worked with notable Nigerian art musicians such as Sir Emeka Nwokedi, Teemac, Professor Femi Adedeji,  Dr. S. O Babalola, and David Aina, Dare Art Alade, Asa, Biodun batiq, etc. He is also the founder and director of Havilland Chorale, a Lagos-based chorale group that performs "Conscious music" only.

As a composer, Micheal Bakare compositions infuse European and African idiom. Hence, he employs popular Indigenous gospel songs,  superimposed chords, modes, while he arranges existing airs as musical resources in his compositions. Some of these elements are the rhythmic patterns, forms, tonal organizations, tonal shifts, and Harmonic structures, etc” His music expresses the Christian gospel message, and positive traditional philosophical teachings as presented through diverse styles and genres of music as evident in his compendium of tuneful and delightful anthem book and Album titled, INFINITUS GRATIA.

Early life and career
Born on 18th of October, 1985, in Lagos Nigeria, Micheal Bakare was raised from a Muslim background; Micheal had his primary and secondary school education in Lagos. Although he had the dream of becoming a Medical Doctor, in his teenage years he discovered his passion for music and began to play  Hourglass at the age of 15.

As the years went by, he picked up more instruments one after the other, such as the violin, trumpet, and saxophone, etc. After receiving several professional training and self-development, Micheal began his music career in Lagos.  2009 he enrolled at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, (N.C.E music), proceeded to Lagos state university to pursue his first degree in music (B.A Hons), The University of Lagos for his Master’s (Master of Arts in Music Education).

Interestingly, he continued in the quest for knowledge at the Christ Apostolic church theological seminary to obtain his Bachelor of Theology (BTh) 2018. And he's currently a PhD candidate at Lagos state university, while picking up appointments as a part-time music lecturer with a number of schools, some of the schools where he taught music include Tenstring Music Institute, Fame School of Music, Life theological seminary Ikorodu, African Church theological seminary, Christ Apostolic church theological seminary, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (Adjunct) and who has likewise separated himself in the Nigerian music landscape particularly in the area of choral pedagogy and music for Early childhood.

Source: DoGospelMusic