Biography
Born around 1920 in Nigeria, percussionist Ginger Johnson died in Lagos in 1972. He moved to London toward the end of the 1940s, and one of his earliest engagements there came with Edmundo Ros’s orchestra. Respected throughout the city’s African expatriate circles for his drumming and his work as a herbalist, Johnson became a familiar presence in the late-1960s counterculture as leader of Ginger Johnson’s African Drummers, the ensemble that appeared with the Rolling Stones at their celebrated Hyde Park concert, and as manager of the Iroko Club. He resettled in Nigeria in the early 1970s, yet a heart attack ended his life only months later.
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