Artist Info: Berkely Ike Jones

Berkley Ike Jones was a Nigerian guitarist and a member of the afrobeat group BLO. He died on June 28th 2020 shortly before his 72ns birthday.

Ike first appeared on the Nigerian music scene in the mid-1960s, as the drummer in the Port Harcourt-based teen pop group The Figures.

In 1970, at the end of the Nigerian civil war, he signed on as lead guitarist in the rock n’ soul band The Funkees, where his adventurous guitar lines got him noticed by [read more...]