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claims to have brought King Sunny Adé to Island's attention, his familiarity being from his life on Malta in the 60s listening to
African Radio and Armed Forces Radio. Sunny Adé gained a wide following with this album and was soon billed as "the African Bob Marley".
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Nigeria with massive airplay. 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
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band. He left to form a new band, The Green Spots, in 1967. Over the years, for various reasons ranging from changes in his music to ba usiness concerns, Sunny Adé's band changed its name several times, first to
African Beats and then to Golden Mercury.
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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
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which he mostly uses as an entrance song during live performances. The sound was made with a phalanx of electric guitars that functions like a percussion section and talking drums that sound like a gossipy Greek chorus.
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and its accompanying tour was "almost unanimously embraced by critics (if not consumers) everywhere". Sunny Adé was described in
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Cohn, Stuart (June 1983). "King Sunny's Healing Juju".
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Sunny Adé with his band invented his unique sound and
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