William Onyeabor's 1980 Studio Album Body & Soul on Colored LP.

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Onyeabor kicked off the 1980's with fourth album, Body & Soul. It's title cut opens Luaka Bop's hit Who Is William Onyeabor? compilation while "Poor Boy" is arguably the best track from the enigmatic artist's catalog to not make the cut. The label even asked Onyeabor about the latter track after it came back from being mastered and it blew them away that he didn't even remember making it.

William Onyeabor was born outside Enugu, a small, rural town in Eastern Nigeria, he created his own genre of African electronic funk in the late 70s and early 80s, making music completely unique for his time. Today, he is reaching cult status among a growing list of admirers, including everyone from Damon Albarn and Hot Chip to Carl Craig and Madlib, with some likening him to the Kraftwerk of West Africa, or a precursor to LCD Soundsystem.

Among the crate-digging few that knew of him, he is considered a complete myth. While he has never performed live and almost never given interviews, his fantastical biography is scattered and has to this day not been verified. And, though he is still alive, he refuses to speak about anything regarding the past. According to various rumors, he left home following the Biafran War and went to study cinematography in the Soviet Union, returning in the mid-70s to start his own film company and record label, Wilfilms. He then self-released eight remarkable records from 1978-1985. He wrote and produced everything on his own, and possibly played every instrument himself. Then, at some point of his life, he became born again and denounced his earlier music, deciding it is something he would never speak about.