Tunji Oyelana & The Benders has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 4 July 2013. Tunji Oyelana & The Benders's music has been featured on 14 episodes.

But he also later burst out on his own as an ethnomusicologist, producing folk music which ruled the airwaves in the 70s and 80s with a group famously known as Tunji Oyelana and The Benders. Many of his albums would qualify as classics in their genre, deploying native wisdom, folklore and wit, mixed with sparse syncopation and antiphony, relying heavily on the human voice and its inflections to lift the spirit. Radio stations loved…