The Return of the King: The Traffic-Stopping, Hip-Shaking Wisdom of King Sunny Ade is Back on Baba Mo Tunde, His First Studio Album in a Decade King Sunny Ade is global groove royalty whose six-hour ...

For more than three decades, King Sunny Ade and his African Beats have been thrilling audiences worldwide with their extraordinary music. The Nigerian singer, guitarist, bandleader, and entrepreneur ...

The shocking allegations have stirred concern among fans and industry observers, raising questions about the well-being of one of Nigeria’s most celebrated musical icons. In a series of emotional ...

Celebrate Brooklyn!‘s annual all-day festival of music, food and crafts features a lineup of music selected to keep dancers moving into the night. This year’s headliner is the great King Sunny Adé of ...

It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of the entire April/May 2010 North American tour for King Sunny Ade and his African Beats. On March 26th 2010 a tragic car accident took the ...

In the 1980's King Sunny Adé was marketed in the US as the African Bob Marley, but his music isn't reggae, it's jùjú, the traditional music of Nigeria. King Sunny Adé modernized jùjú music. He took ...

‘King Sunny Adé is not dead.” That was the headline in one Nigerian news source earlier this spring, as rumors of the great juju bandleader’s death circulated around his homeland. Speaking on the ...

The entire King Sunny Adé & His African Beats tour has been canceled in the wake of a car accident that killed two members of the African Beats. King Sunny Adé had been scheduled to stop at the ...

Born Sunday Adeniyi, King Sunny Ade has been perfecting his Nigerian juju beats for decades. By now, he's achieved legendary status: Some know him as the African Bob Marley. The son of a church ...

The unwitting progenitor of what we now call world music, Nigerian juju legend King Sunny Ade was signed by Island Records founder Chris Blackwell after the 1981 death of Bob Marley–the label wanted a ...

King Sunny Ade holds a special place in world music history, and a special place in KCRW music history as well. There were trailblazers like Miriam Makeba and Olatunji before King Sunny, back before ...

Legendary Juju musician King Sunny Ade has denied rumours of his disappearance in a press statement on his official Instagram account. He attributed the false claims to his daughter, Damilola King ...