Hit Parade | King Sunny Ade

Sunday Adeniyi, a.k.a. King Sunny Adé is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music and a Pioneer of Modern world music, often classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time. Adé was born to a Nigerian royal family in Ondo, in 1946, and started his musical career in Lagos as an integrant of various highlife bands.
Sunny Adé's music is characterised by, among other instruments, the Talking drum- an instrument indigenous to his Yoruba roots, the guitar and his peculiar application to juju music, that would easily put him in the same class as guitar musicians like Santana. His music is in the age old tradition of singing poetic lyrics("Ewi" in Yoruba) and praise of dignitaries as well components of "juju" (traditional African belief) called the "Ogede"-"casting a spell". Hence, Adé's music constitutes a record of the oral tradition of his people for posterity.
Sunny Adé was the first to introduce the pedal steel guitar to Nigerian pop music. He was the first to introduce the use of synthesizers, clavinet, vibraphone, tenor guitar into the juju music repertoire such as dub and wah-wah guitar licks.

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