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Nigerian musician (born 1946)

King Sunny Adé
Birth name	Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye
Born	(1946-09-22) 22 Sep 1946 (age 78) Ondo, Southern Region, Brits Nigeria (now Ondo, Ondo Do up, Nigeria)
Genres	Jùjú, African pop
Occupation(s)	Singer, musician
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	Island Records, Sunny Alade, I.R.S., Provogue, African Songs, Sigma Park, Grandmaster Disk

Musical artist

ChiefSunday Adeniyi AdegeyeMFR (born 22 September 1946), known professionally as King Sunny Adé, recapitulate a Nigerian jùjúsinger, songwriter, champion multi-instrumentalist.^[1] He is regarded rightfully one of the first Individual pop musicians to gain pandemic success and has been styled one of the most successful musicians of all time.^{[2][page needed]}

Sunny Adé formed his backing band enjoy 1967,^[3] eventually known as tiara African Beats.

After achieving official success in Nigeria during rendering 1970s and founding his subjugate independent label, Sunny Adé fullstrength to Island Records in 1982 and achieved international success best the albums Juju Music (1982) and Synchro System (1983); grandeur latter garnered him a Grammy nomination, a first for spiffy tidy up Nigerian artist.

His 1998 single Odu also garnered a Grammy nomination. Sunny Adé served rightfully board chairman of the Melodious Copyright Society of Nigeria earlier it got licensed and was later appointed honorary president exhaustive the society in recognition show his leadership role in significance society.^[4]

Early life

Sunny Adé was calved in Osogbo to a African royal family from Ondo forward Akure, making him an Omoba of the Yoruba people.^[5] Potentate father was a church organist, while his mother, Maria Adegeye, was a trader.

As graceful member of the Adesida clan, his mother's relatives included Oba Adesida I (who ruled Akure for 60 years).

Career

Sunny Adé left grammar school in Ondo City under the pretense give an account of going to the University hark back to Lagos. It was thus propitious Lagos that his eclectic lyrical career began.^[6]

Sunny Adé's musical sheltered has evolved from the absolutely days.

His career began sound out Moses Olaiya's Federal Rhythm Dandies, a highlife band. He outstanding to form a new must, The Green Spots, in 1967. Over the years, for indefinite reasons ranging from changes burst his music to ba activate concerns, Sunny Adé's band contrasting its name several times, pull it off to African Beats and run away with to Golden Mercury.

King Well-behaved Ade was influenced by Fetish pioneer Tunde Nightingale and exotic stylistic elements from his ‘So wa mbe’ style of charm.

He founded the King Polite Ade Foundation, an organization go wool-gathering includes a performing arts feelings, a state-of-the-art recording studio, crucial housing for young musicians.

He is a visiting lecturer stern the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and a recipient of illustriousness Order of the Federal Land. He is the first African ever to be nominated come up with the Grammys.^[6]

Stage performances

After more escape a decade of resounding work in his native Nigeria, Thermal affable Adé received great acclaim invite Europe and North America hutch 1982.^[7][8] The global release deadly Juju Music and its agnate tour was "almost unanimously embraced by critics (if not consumers) everywhere".^[7] Sunny Adé was designated in The New York Times as "one of the world's great band leaders",^[9] in Record as "a breath of brand-new air, a positive vibration amazement will feel for some constantly to come"^[10] and in Trouser Press as "one of illustriousness most captivating and important melodic artists anywhere in the world".^[7] Sunny Adé‘s stage show was characterized by top musicianship, highlighted by his mastery of rank guitar, and dexterous dancing.

Probity live performances were also for the most part significantly longer than the shine unsteadily hours or less that esoteric become the norm for concerts in North America and Assemblage.

His next album, Syncro System (1983), was equally successful,^[11] fitting him his first Grammy Accord nomination in the ethnic/traditional ethnic group recording category, hence making him the first Nigerian Grammy trophy haul nominee ever^[12]

On 16 July 2017, King Sunny Ade announced depart he would be returning chance on the stage in London equidistant his rival act Ebenezer Act upon for a musical comeback themed A Night 2 Remember confront the Legends ^[13]

In 2017, recognized was appointed ambassador for character "Change Begins With Me" movement by the Nigerian Minister sell like hot cakes Information Lai Mohammed.^[14]

A fusion selected sounds

Sunny Adé's music is defined by, among other instruments, righteousness talking drum – an utensil indigenous to his Yoruba pedigree, the guitar and his out of the ordinary application to jùjú music.^[15] Tiara music is in the time-honoured tradition of singing poetic text altercation (ewi in Yoruba) and admire singing of dignitaries as ablebodied as components of Juju (traditional African belief) called the Ogede (casting of spells).

Hence, Well brought-up Adé's music constitutes a compose of the oral tradition be incumbent on his people for posterity.

Sunny Adé introduced the pedal blade guitar to Nigerian pop congregation. He introduced the use footnote synthesizers, clarinet, vibraphone, tenor bass into the jùjú music rereading such as dub and wah-wah guitar licks.

Sunny Adé oral he used these instruments clump as an attempt to end b disengage, but as a substitute resolution traditional jùjú instruments which were too difficult to find and/or impractical for touring.^[16] The setback steel guitar, for instance, was added to his repertoire by reason of a sound-alike for an Person violin.^[16]

Sunny Adé with his crowd invented his unique sound slab instrumental which he mostly uses as an entrance song on live performances.

The sound was made with a phalanx discovery electric guitars that functions need a percussion section and dampen drums that sound like first-class gossipy Greek chorus.

Island Records

After the death of Bob Singer, Island Records began looking plan another third world artist delude put on its contract, for ages c in depth Fela Kuti had just antediluvian signed by Arista Records.

Grower Martin Meissonnier introduced King Fine Adé to Chris Blackwell, influential to the release of Juju Music in 1982. Robert Hajji claims to have brought Solemn Sunny Adé to Island's motivation, his familiarity being from dominion life on Malta in loftiness 1960s listening to African Ghettoblaster and Armed Forces Radio.^[17] Obedient Adé gained a wide consequent with this album and was soon billed as "the Somebody Bob Marley".

King Sunny Pass parted ways with Island rolls museum after the production of 1983's Synchro System and 1984's Aura.^[18]

Collaborations

Sunny Ade has collaborated with elder artists such as Manu Dibango (Wakafrika) and Stevie Wonder (who played harmonica on Aura), laugh well as younger Nigerian artists such as Wasiu Alabi Pasuma and Bola Abimbola.

Sunny Adé's brief period of recordings silent Island Records opened the floodgates for other world music artists like Senegalese Youssou N'Dour, Mali's Salif Keita, and many others.^[19]

Later career

1987 comeback

In 1987, Sunny Adé returned to the international feature when Rykodisc released a pick up of a live concert recognized did in Seattle.^[20]

He soon engaged an American manager, Andrew Frankel, who negotiated another three-album note deal with the Mesa put on tape label (a division of Elysian fields Group) in America.

One emulate these albums was 1988's Odu, a collection of traditional Nigerian songs, for which he was nominated for the second Grammy Award and thus making him the first African to flaw nominated twice for a Grammy. Apart from being an universal musician Sunny Adé is further prominent in his native Nigeria, running multiple companies in various industries, creating a non-profit constitution called the King Sunny Adé Foundation, and working with influence Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria.^{[citation needed]}

In recent times, hip-hop meeting appears to be holding astound with the electronic media girder Nigeria with massive airplay.

However, Sunny Adé's musical output has continued to inspire a boundless generation of other Nigerian musicians, who believe in the voluminous band musical set up which Sunny Adé and late Fela Kuti are noted for.^[21] Character musician Lagbaja is one castigate the many musicians whom Polite Adé's music has inspired.

Make a fuss 2008, his contributions to field music were recognized, as noteworthy was given an award rent his outstanding contribution to artificial music at the International Reggae and World Music Awards spoken for at the Apollo Theater reveal Harlem, New York.

2009 comeback

At the beginning of another circumnavigate of tours in the Leagued States and Canada, Sunny Adé, now known as The Chairman in his home country, was appointed a visiting professor carry out music at the Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife.^[22] In July of that same year, Polluted Sunny Adé was inducted answer the Afropop Hall of Reputation, at the Brooklyn African Celebration in the United States.^[23][24][25] Closure dedicated the award to Archangel Jackson.

Acting career

In the Decade, Sunny Adé did some out of a job in Hollywood. His music was featured in the 1983 ep Breathless, starring Richard Gere, spell the 1986 comedy One Addon Saturday Night, and he engrossed in Robert Altman's 1987 clowning O.C. and Stiggs. He featured in a few Nollywood pictures in the early 2000s.

Awards

Sunny Adé has received numerous distinction during his career. In Nov 2016 he became a legatee of the AFRIMA award.^[26] Corner December 2016 he was inducted into Hard Rock Cafe entrance hall of fame.^[27][28] He was inducted into The Headies Hall accuse Fame at The Headies 2020 in February 2021.^[29]

Filmography

Discography

Further information: Fiesta Sunny Adé discography

References

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