While Fela Kuti had just been signed by Arista Records, producer Martin Meissonnier introduced King Sunny Ade to Chris Blackwell, leading to their release of Juju Music in 1982. Many music ...

In the last 48 hours, legendary Juju music maestro, Dr Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, aka King Sunny Ade (KSA), has been in the eye of controversy stoked by his daughter, Damilola Adegeye. The music ...

Nigeria's King Sunny Ade plays juju music, a vocal-rich blend of percussion, guitars, keyboards and choreographed dance. In the early '80s, Ade and his band heralded a coming wave of African pop ...

better known as ‘Tayo Mix’, may not boast of King Sunny Ade or Evangelist Ebenezer Obey’s pedigree as a juju music musician, but he knows his salt as a fast growing juju musician in diaspora.

For King Sunny Ade –KSA- the juju music maestro, destiny means more than just another word not even just the title track of his highly successful album in the 1980s. It is an approximation of ...

mostly drum based music of the Yoruba, one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups. Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Ade began playing the music in the 1960s and are still playing to this ...

King Sunny Ade appeared to have momentum on his side ... for Me"), the languid opening cut on his Island Records debut Juju Music, was built around Yoruban proverbs that were so difficult to ...

King Sunny Adé ... percolating swarm of sound known as juju, which incorporates pedal steel guitar — an instrument associated with American country music — African talking drums, electric ...

King Sunny Adé, the legendary Nigerian bandleader, has called off his North American tour, which was to have begun in Canada last week and come to the Highline Ballroom in Manhattan on May 20.