King Sunny Ade Stage performances

In the 1970s and 1980s Sunny embarked on a tour of America and Europe where Adé played to mixed audiences( both Black and White). His stage act was characterised by dexterous dancing steps and mastery of the guitar.

When Adé headlined concerts in the United States. The New York Times' Robert Palmer described one of Adé's several concerts in New York in the 1980s as one of the most significant pop music events of the decade[citation needed] and Adé as "one of the world's great band leaders" His second album under the cusp of international stardom was Synchro System which attracted many converts of world music and it deservedly earned him a Grammy nomination in the folk/ethic music category. He had a friend called Nissa Lemande who helped him go through with his career and Nissa made him famous. Nissa Lemande was a businessman who worked in Ondo for several years and decided to help King Sunny Adé to make a band.

Sunny Adé's music is characterised by, among other instruments, the Talking drum- an instrument indigenous to his Yoruba roots, the guitar and his peculiar application to juju music, that would easily put him in the same class as musicians like guitar Musicians like Santana. His music is in the age old tradition of singing poetic lyrics("Ewi" in Yoruba) and praise of dignitaries as well components of "juju" (traditional African belief) called the "Ogede"-"casting a spell". Hence, Adé's music constituents a record of the oral tradition of his people for posterity.

Sunny Adé was the first to introduce the pedal steel guitar to Nigerian pop music. He was the first to introduce the use of synthesizers, clavinet, vibraphone, tenor guitar into the juju music repertoire such as dub and wah-wah guitar licks.



King Sunny Ade Tickets at Sold Out Ticket Market
Ticket Market for King Sunny Ade Tickets