King Sunny Ade
23 Jan
Recently, Sigma Club, University of Ibadan honoured King Sunny Ade and Evangelist Ebenezer Obey Fabiyi with lifetime achievement awards.
11 Dec 2021
Yuletide groove is in the air, and it is raining groovy soundtracks everywhere you look. Juju music maestro, King Sunny Ade (KSA), and superstar singers, Simi and Teni, are currently ruling the airwaves
21 Sep 2021
A former member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, and wife of the legendary musician, King Sunny Ade, Hon Risikat Ajoke Adegeye is dead. She was also a former Chairmanship Aspirant under the platform of All Progressives Congress, APC, in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area. The deceased reportedly passed away in the early…
6 Mar 2021
The Board of the Musical Copyright Society Nigeria Ltd/Gte (MCSN) has appointed music maestro, Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye popularly known as King Sunny Ade as the Honorary President of the Society. The appointment coincides with the rollout of the MCSN’s Gocreate app for the monitoring and reporting of the use of music on all platforms including…
27 Feb 2021
It was a feast of colourful attires, bright lights and energetic performances, last Sunday, at the Eko Convention Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, where the 14th edition of Headies Awards was staged.
15 Aug 2020
Before juju maestro, King Sunny Ade started his musical career, which came with electric dance steps, dance was not recognised as a major work.
20 Jun 2020
Record label owner/CEO, Habeeb Oluwafemi Giwa popularly known as Helpline is currently making waves in South Africa where he currently resides.
24 Jan 2020
N.B: This post was written on January 4, 2020, and updated on March 16, 2021, to reflect new changes. The Nigerian music industry has witnessed exponential growth over the years and with this growth has come a rising hunger for international visibility and dominance. Over the years, different Nigerian artistes have promised to bring home…
20 Nov 2019
The Grammy Award, unarguably the biggest music award in the world, is presented annually by The Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the music industry. And some Nigerian musicians have been nominated at different times for the awards. It is interesting to note that these nominations have been for the World Best Music Category. See…
29 Oct 2019
Our crowd-pleasing ace music maestro, Chief Sunday Adeniyi, popularly known as King Sunny Ade sang preemptively in one of his explosive songs. And the audacious lyrical song speaks to the current conscience and consciousness of the British MPs
22 Sep 2019
The trio of Juju maestro, King Sunny Ade, Bolaji Amusan popularly called ‘Mr. Latin’ and Wale Akorede aka ‘Okunnu’ are the prominent characters featured in the new sequel television commercial recently released by Globacom.
19 Jul 2019
The lagoon stretches out to meet a smear of the sky in the distance and canoes gather along its disappearing edge. The front is lined with garbage. There are an open sewer and a small boy sprints to kill a rat. It runs inside the garbage by the corner.
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