Haruna Ishola Bello was a native of Ijebu-Igbo in the present day Ogun state of south west geo-political zone (born 1919) was a Nigerian musician, and one of the most popular artist in the apala genre. A music for the elites of those days. In the decades leading up to Nigerian independence in 1960, apala music developed when amateur musicians would play to arouse the faithful after the long fast of Ramadan. Born in the town of Ijebu-igbo, Haruna Ishola began recording apala numbers in about 1955