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Intricate but light, polyrhythmic but clear, Nigerian juju is the great sly seducer of African pop, and nobody puts the moves on better than King Sunny Ade. When Island Records failed to make the sweet-toned singer and his killer band into an international phenomenon in the early 1980s, he slowly re...
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A superstar in his native Nigeria since the late '60s,
juju bandleader King Sunny Ade was hailed by American
critics in 1982 as the next Bob Marley. While Ade, who sings in his
native Yoruba tongue, never achieved that level of popularity in
the U.S., he and his 20-piece African Beats band did whet American
and European appetites for "world music." In addition, Ade helped
open the door for other...
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