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The Return of the King: King Sunny Ade Releases First Studio Album in Ten Years

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
August 19, 2010

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 sets and butt-shaking beats are notorious from his native Nigeria to Nashville and Nagasaki. And now the master is back with Baba Mo Tunde (IndigeDisc; September 28, 2010), his first studio album in ten years, a pristine recording and double CD set that captures a ...
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King Sunny Ade Cancels Tour

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 20, 2010

After canceling the first five dates of their North American tour last week, singer and guitarist King Sunny Ade and His African Beats now have scrapped the entire tour. Ade was scheduled to perform in St. Louis tomorrow night (Tuesday April 20), at the Old Rock House. A statement released today by Ade's management said:“On March 26th 2010 a tragic car accident took the lives of two members of the African Beats, talking drummer Gabriel Ayanniyi and percussionist Omo ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: King Sunny Ade and His African Beats

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 18, 2010

The subjects of this week's video feature are King Sunny Ade & His African Beats, who will be in St. Louis this coming Tuesday, April 20 to perform at the Old Rock House. Since visa problems forced the band to cancel the first several dates of their tour, their St. Louis show now is the kickoff for the band's jaunt across the United States. Ade's style of Nigerian juju music ...
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Jazz This Week: Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, John Pizzarelli, King Sunny Ade, Ronald Carter and Russell Gunn, Lea Delaria, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 14, 2010

It's an extremely busy week for jazz and creative music in St. Louis, with everything from big bands and straight-ahead small group swing to organ-driven soul-jazz, cabaret, free improv, and two or three different flavors of ethnic music fused with jazz.Let's go to straight to the highlights, described here in more-or-less chronological order:On Wednesday, singer and guitarist John Pizzarelli, who's always a good draw here in the Gateway City, begin a four-night run at Jazz at ...
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King Sunny Ade Coming to the Old Rock House on Tuesday, April 20

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
January 14, 2010

Nigerian singer and guitarist King Sunny Ade, who helped popularize African music in the US and Europe during the 1980s, is back on the road and is bringing His African Beats to St. Louis to perform at 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 20 at the Old Rock House, 1200 South 7th Blvd (between downtown and Soulard).Rooted in Nigeria's Yoruba culture, Ade's music was some of the first so-called “world" music to gain wide popularity in the West, and his ...
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King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
August 9, 2009

King Sunny Ade Inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn On July 18th

King Sunny Ade, Nigeria's beloved entertainer and maestro of juju big band dance music, was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame at Celebrate Brooklyn's African Festival on Saturday, July 18th. Afropop Producer Sean Barlow did the honors of inducting “Chairman" (what his friends and colleagues call him.)

Barlow explained to the 10,000 enthusiastic fans at Celebrate Brooklyn that the criteria for selection were ...
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Nigerian Legend King Sunny Ade's 2009 North American Tour

Source: rock paper scissors, inc.
May 8, 2009

The Chairman's Diplomatic Tour of a New America: Nigerian Legend King Sunny Ade Brings the Forty Minute Jam to US/Canadian Stages and Festivals, June/July 2009

The shift from recorded to live music as the main driver of music commerce happened ten years earlier in Africa than in America. Nigerian juju icon King Sunny Ade who will tour throughout the US and Canada in June and July 2009 knows first-hand.

Stars of juju the Nigerian music that came out of palmwine ...
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