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Ayinla Kollington ranks alongside his friend and competitor Ayinde Barrister as the two most important artists to dominate Fuji music from its inception in the s through to the s, by which time it had grown to become one of the most popular dance genres in Nigeria. Kollington began recording for Nigerian EMI inand in achieved a pronounced, but temporary, lead over Barrister when his introduction of the powerful bata drum fuji had until that time relied almost exclusively on talking, or "squeeze", drums caught the imagination of record buyers.

Inwhen fuji was beginning to seriously rival juju as Nigeria's most popular contemporary roots music, he set up his own label, Kollington Records, through which he released no less than 30 albums over the next five years. As the popularity of fuji grew, and the market became big enough to support both artists, Kollington and Barrister's enmity diminished.

A new and equally public rivalry emerged in the mid-'80s, this time with "Queen of Waka" star Salawa Abeniwho exchanged bitter personal insults with Kollington over a series of album releases and counter-releases. At the start of the s, he started his own record company, Kollington Records, to release his music and remains to this day an extremely prolific artist, having recorded more than albums.

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