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Below is ‘s Musical Lyrics By Album Followed By His Biography

    Number Title Record Company Song writer Year
    1 Yekinni Akande b/w Col. Adéyinka Adébayo African Songs King Sunny Adé 1967
    2 Ewo Ijamba Motto African Songs King Sunny Adé 1967
    3 Omo Oba Sijuwade African Songs King Sunny Adé 1967
    4 Layiwola Folashade African Songs King Sunny Adé 1967
    5 Qlalekan Salami b/w Challenge Cup ’67 African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    6 “Mini-Woho” African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968

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    Number Title Record Company Song writer Year
    7 Awa Arawa African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    8 An W’oba African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    9 Ally Mekudi African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    10 Col. Benjamin Adékunle African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    11 Alujonu Onigita African Songs King Sunny Adé 1968
    12 Ibilekeleke African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    13 Eda nreti Eleya African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    14 Oluku African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    15 Egbe Igbimo b/w Sewele African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    16 Mo gbinla mi soko African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    17 Mo gbinla mi soko African Songs 1970
    18 Ibi Ise bari African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    19 Alanu L’Oluwa* African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    20 London Special – London La Wa African Songs King Sunny Adé 1970
    21 Soyoyo African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    22 Ajo jobiile African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    23 Igbalaye African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    24 Ija Pari African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    25 Akanji Adé Fowope African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    26 New Sound of Sunny Adé African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    27 Olowo (part 1) b/w Olowo (part 2) African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    28 Tony Clarke African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    29 Awa Arawa African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    30 Ibilekeleke African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    31 Mo gbinla mi soko African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    32 Egbe Awawa African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    33 Nkuruma/Nibi Taiye Bayi Si African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    34 Sunny Ti De/A Kunle A Tewo Adura African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    35 In The Heart of Great Britain/Ile Labo Sinmi Oko/Sehindemi African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    36 Ogun (By Popular Request/Chief Bolarinwa Abioro ) African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    37 Mr. Adénaike (Ololu)/Prince Adésanya African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    38 Late Dr. Nkrumah/Sunny Special African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    39 Ogun (in full)/ Our New Sound African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    40 Late Pa Yohanna Gowon/Asalamu-Alaikun African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    41 Sunny Ti De / Kolawole Bockersteth African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    42 Afai Bawon Ja/Omo Wumi African Songs Unknown
    43 Ogidan Ko Ni Se Barber/ Ibanuje Mo Niwon/ Ariya Odun Kewa African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    44 Sunny Tide / Oro T’Onlo African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    45 Syncro System Movement African Songs King Sunny Adé Unknown
    46 E Kilo F’Omo Ode/ Esubiri Ebo Mi Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1974
    47 Mo Ti Mo/ Kileni Ase Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1975
    48 Late Gen Murtala Mohammed Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1976
    49 Live Play Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1976
    50 Syncro System Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1977
    51 Emi Agbadura African Songs King Sunny Adé 1977
    52 Sound Vibration/ Kiti-Kiti Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1977
    53 Araiye E Dakun Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1978
    54 365 Is My Number Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1978
    55 FESTAC 77 Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1978
    56 Isu Joba Lori Iyan Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1978
    57 The Royal Sound/Ariya Is Unlimited African Songs King Sunny Adé 1979
    58 I’m Searching for My Love Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1979
    59 Ori Mi Ja Fun Mi Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1970
    60 Eje Nlogba Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1980
    61 Osupa Mi Tole Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1981
    62 The Message/ Ma J’Aiye Oni Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1981
    63 Check E/ Ki Isu To Diyan Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1981
    64 Ariya Special/ A Gbe Kini Ohun De Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1981
    65 Ja Funmi[2] Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1981
    66 The Message Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1982
    67 Maa Jo Sunny Alade King Sunny Ad] 1982
    68 Ijinle Odu Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1982
    69 Ja Funmi Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1982
    70 Live At Montreux Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1982
    71 Juju Music Mango King Sunny Adé 1982
    77 Ajoo Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    78 Synchro Feelings Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    79 Bobby Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    80 Synchro Series Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    81 Consience Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    82 Ase/ Ogunja Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1983
    83 Explosion Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1984
    84 Togetherness Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1984
    85 Aura Island Records King Sunny Adé 1984
    86 Ase Island Records King Sunny Adé 1984
    87 Gratitude Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1985
    88 The Truth Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1985
    89 Saviour Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1985
    90 Sweet Banana Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1986
    91 My Dear Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1986
    92 Saviour Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1985
    93 Let Them Say Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1986
    94 Jealousy Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1987
    95 Merciful God Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1987
    96 The Return of the Juju King Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1987
    97 The Child Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1988
    98 Destiny Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1988
    99 Live Live Juju Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé & His African Beats 1988
    100 Sunny Adé Ti E Nreti Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1989
    101 Authority Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1990
    102 Get Up Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1990
    103 Return Of The Juju King Volume 2 Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1990
    104 Triumph Broadway King Sunny Adé 1992
    105 Surprise Sigma Park King Sunny Adé 1992
    106 Glory Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1993
    107 King Sunny Adé & The New African Beats Hemisphere/IRS King Sunny Adé 1994
    108 The Way Forward Sigma Park King Sunny Adé 1994
    109 E Dide/Get Up MESA King Sunny Adé 1995
    110 E Dide/Get Up Master Disc King Sunny Adé 1995
    111 My Dream Sigma Disk King Sunny Adé 1996
    112 The Golden Age Sigma Disk King Sunny Adé 1997
    113 Ogun Aladdin King Sunny Adé 1997
    114 Odu[3] Mesa/Atlantic Records King Sunny Adé 1998
    115 His Evergreen Hits African Songs King Sunny Adé 1998
    116 Fantasia ’98 World Tour Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1999
    117 Ariya Is Unlimited Sigma Park King Sunny Adé 1982
    118 Live At The Hollywood Palace Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 1999
    119 Kool Samba Master Disk King Sunny Adé 1999
    120 Seven Degrees North Sunny Alade King Sunny Adé 2000
    121 Owanbe/ 0805 Is My Number Fortune Records King Sunny Adé 2003
    122 Juju-Apala Live Fortune Records King Sunny Adé 2000
    123 Divine Shield Master DIsk King Sunny Adé 2004

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<?php echo get_the_title(); ?> As It Is” src=”http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/KingSunnyAde.jpg/220px-KingSunnyAde.jpg” title=”<?php echo get_the_title(); ?>” class=”alignleft” width=”225″ height=”225″ margin-right: “30px” margin-bottom: “20px” /></p> <p>“<strong>King” Sunny Adé</strong> (born Sunday Adeniyi, September 22, 1946) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music. He has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time.</p> <p><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>Adé was born to a Nigerian royal family in Ondo, thus making him an Omoba of the Yoruba people.[2][3] His father was a church organist, while his mother was a trader. Adé left grammar school in Ondo under the pretense of going to the University of Lagos. There, in Lagos, his mercurial musical career started.</p> <p>Sunny Adé’s musical sound has evolved from the early days. His career began with Moses Olaiya’s Federal Rhythm Dandies, a highlife band. He left to form The Green Spots in 1967. Over the years, for various reasons ranging from changes in his music to business concerns, Sunny Adé’s band changed its name several times, first to African Beats and then to Golden Mercury.<br /> Stage performances</p> <p>In the 1970s and 1980s Adé embarked on a tour of America and Europe where he played to mixed (both black and white) audiences. His stage act was characterised by dexterous dancing steps and mastery of the guitar. Trey Anastasio, American guitarist, composer and one of his devout followers, once said,</p> <p> If you come to see Sunny Adé live, you must be prepared to groove all night.</p> <p>When Adé headlined concerts in the United States, The New York Times’s Robert Palmer described one of Adé’s several concerts in New York in the 1980s one of the most significant pop music events of the decade[citation needed] and Adé as “one of the world’s great band leaders”.[4] His second album under the cusp of international stardom was Synchro System which attracted many converts of world music[5] and earned him a Grammy nomination in the folk/ethnic music category.</p> <p><strong>A fusion of sounds</strong></p> <p>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 jùjú music,[6][7] that would easily put him in the same class as 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 constitutes a record of the oral tradition of his people for posterity.</p> <p>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 jùjú music repertoire such as dub and wah-wah guitar licks.</p> <p><strong>Island Records<br /> </strong><br /> After the death of Bob Marley, Island Records began looking for another third world artist to put on its contract, while Fela Kuti had just been signed by Arista Records. Producer Martin Meissonnier introduced King Sunny Adé to Chris Blackwell, leading to the release of Juju Music in 1982. Many music aficionados are quick to point out that Sunny Adé’s brand of music Juju could not be ignored.[8] Today, this seminal recording is often acclaimed as one of the most important records from Africa. Adé gained a wide following with this album and was soon billed as “the African Bob Marley”.</p> <p>Sunny Adé has said in the past that his refusal to allow Island to meddle with his compositions and over-Europeanise and Americanise his music were the reasons why Island then decided to look elsewhere.</p> <p><strong>Collaborations</strong></p> <p>Sunny has collaborated with major artists such as Manu Dibango (Wakafrika) and Stevie Wonder (played harmonica in Aura).</p> <p>Sunny Adé’s brief recordings with Island Records opened the floodgates for other world music artist like Senegalese Youssou N’Dour, Mali’s Salif Keita and a host of others.[9]<br /> Twice Grammy Awards nominee<br /> 1987 comeback</p> <p>In 1987, Sunny Adé returned to international spotlight when Rykodisc released a live concert he did in Seattle and was given an astonishing embrace by fans across the globe who were eager for another international album release.[10][who?]</p> <p>He soon employed an American manager, Andrew Frankel, negotiated another three album record deal with the Mesa record label (a Division of Paradise Group) in America. One of these albums was 1998s Odu, a collection of traditional Yoruba songs, for which he was nominated for the second Grammy Award and thus making him the first African to be nominated twice for a Grammy. Apart from being an international musician Sunny Adé is also prominent in his native Nigeria, running multiple companies in several industries, creating a non-profit organization called the King Sunny Adé Foundation, and working with the Musical Copyright Society of Nigeria.</p> <p>In recent times, hip hop music appears to be holding sway with the electronic media in Nigeria with massive airplays. Nonetheless, Sunny Adé’s musical output has continued to inspire a vast generation of other Nigerian musicians, who believe in the big band musical set up which Sunny Adé and late Fela Kuti are noted for.[11] The musician, Lagbaja is one of the very many musicians Sunny Adé’s music has inspired. In 2008, his contributions to world music was recognised; as he was given an award for his outstanding contribution to world music at the Reggae and world music awards held at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.<br /> Hollywood career</p> <p>In the 1980s Adé embarked on a career in Hollywood. His music was featured in the 1983 film Breathless, starring Richard Gere, and the 1986 comedy One More Saturday Night, and he acted in Robert Altman’s 1987 comedy O.C. and Stiggs.</p> <p><strong>2009 comeback<br /> </strong><br /> At the beginning of another round of tour of the United States and Canada, Sunny Adé, now known as The Chairman in his home country, was appointed a visiting professor of music at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.[12] In July the same year King Sunny Adé was inducted into the Afropop Hall of Fame, at the Brooklyn African Festival in the United States.[13][14][15] He dedicated the award to the recently deceased Michael Jackson.</p> <p>Filmography</p> <table> <tr> <th>Film</th> <th>Role</th> <th>Year</th> </tr> <tr> <td><i>Breathless</i></td> <td>King Sunny Adé (Music)</td> <td>1983</td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>One More Saturday Night</i></td> <td>King Sunny Adé (Music)</td> <td>1986</td> </tr> <tr> <td><i>O.C. and Stiggs</i></td> <td>King Sunny Adé (Music & appearance)</td> <td>1987</td> </tr> </table> <p>[/showhide]</p> <h4 style= Source: Wikipedia