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King Sunny Adé (actually Sunday Adeniyi ; born September 20, 1946 in Ondo ) is a musician from Nigeria .
Life
He comes from a royal family, but left school to pursue a career as a musician. In the mid-1960s he performed with Moses Olaiya's Federal Rhythm Dandies, and in 1967 he founded his own band, The Green Spots. Frustrated by the business practices of the music industry, he started his own record label in 1974, which has released over a hundred of Adé's records in Nigeria over the past two decades. With the proceeds from his albums, he founded an oil company, a mining company, a nightclub, a film and video production company, a PR company and a record label in Nigeria that specializes in recording African artists. It is estimated that around 700 people work in the various companies. In the mid-1990s, he established the King Sunny Adé Foundation, an organization that includes a performing arts center, state-of-the-art recording studio, and accommodation for artists.
With his band King Sunny Adé and His African Beats , he has been playing Jùjú music , Nigerian pop music that combines local tradition with Western pop, since the mid-1980s . One of his albums, Juju Music from 1982, was in the Wire List The Wire's "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One What Listening)" was added.
In Europe, King Sunny Adé and His African Beats became known to a wider public through an appearance in the WDR Rockpalast in Essen's Grugahalle in March 1983, which was broadcast live on television across Europe.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King Sunny goodbye |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Adeniyi, Sunday (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nigerian musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 20, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ondo |