The legend and King of Juju music King sunny Ade celebrated his 70th birthday on the 22nd of September 2016, see pictures below but read on for interesting facts about one of Nigeria’s most influential musician.
King Sunny Ade is one of the most influential artistes ever from Nigeria. He led the exposure of his genre of music on the global stage, while remaining King to the Juju music tradition.
- With two Grammy nominations, King Sunny Ade is among a select group of the world’s greatest artistes whose musical instruments have been preserved in the hallowed Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America.
- Sunday Adéniyi Adegeye, known as King Sunny Ade (KSA) was born on September 22, 1946 to a royal family of Ondo town in South-west Nigeria. His father was a church organist, while his mother was a trader.
- The youthful Ade horrified his parents by pursuing music, which was then considered a profession for commoners. He left grammar school in Ondo under the pretence of continuing his education in Lagos. There, in Nigeria’s federal capital at the time, his iconic musical career started.
- In 1963, he joined Semipro Band, a group playing Juju, a popular Nigerian guitar-based music style that had become popular since the ’20s, which had been radically altered by the infusion of electric guitars and Western rock influences. Within a year, Ade was a guitarist with a top Juju outfit, Rhythm Dandies, led by Moses Olaiya who would later branch out into drama and gain fame as a comedian. By 1967, Ade had formed his own band, the Green Spots Band, and recorded his first single, “Challenge Cup,” which celebrated a national soccer championship and became a hit.
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