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 ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

King Sunny Adé, the great Nigerian musician whose 1983 Bumbershoot concert effectively kicked off the world-music craze in Seattle, has not toured the U.S. since 2009. Adé circles back to 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 ...

Before Davido performed ‘Assurance’ in Eddie Murphy’s ‘Coming 2 America’ in 2021, 41 years earlier, KSA – as he’s widely known – wrote his name in Hollywood history as the first Nigerian musician to ...

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 ...

Two months ago, headlines across Africa blared the news that, contrary to rumors, 69-year-old world-music pioneer King Sunny Adé wasn’t dead. Now, the influential Nigerian guitarist and bandleader ...

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 ...

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 ...