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 music ...

For more than three decades, King Sunny Ade and his African Beats have been thrilling audiences worldwide with their extraordinary music. The Nigerian singer, guitarist, bandleader, and entrepreneur ...

The Return of the King: The Traffic-Stopping, Hip-Shaking Wisdom of King Sunny Ade is Back on Baba Mo Tunde, His First Studio Album in a Decade King Sunny Ade is global groove royalty whose six-hour ...

Until a decade ago, King Sunny Adé was one of African music's prime ambassadors to North America. The slippery, soulful, and deeply syncopated sounds of his Island Records debut, Juju Music, were ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... King Sunny Adé had been scheduled to appear at the Boulder Theater on April 30. The entire King Sunny Adé & His African Beats tour has been canceled in the ...

In the 1980's King Sunny Adé was marketed in the US as the African Bob Marley, but his music isn't reggae, it's jùjú, the traditional music of Nigeria. King Sunny Adé modernized jùjú music. He took ...

Nigerian singer King Sunny Ade opens up on his relationship with the late Onyeka Onwenu. Sunny Ade recently paid a condolence visit to Onwenu's family and after his visit, he was interviewed by QEDng ...

Two photographs of King Sunny Adé hang on the reception wall of M&C 106.5 FM radio station in Ondo town. One is a recent portrait identifying him as Dr. Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, M.F.R. (Member of the ...

Legendary Juju musician King Sunny Ade has denied rumours of his disappearance in a press statement on his official Instagram account. He attributed the false claims to his daughter, Damilola King ...

King Sunny Ade holds a special place in world music history, and a special place in KCRW music history as well. There were trailblazers like Miriam Makeba and Olatunji before King Sunny, back before ...

The unwitting progenitor of what we now call world music, Nigerian juju legend King Sunny Ade was signed by Island Records founder Chris Blackwell after the 1981 death of Bob Marley–the label wanted a ...