Pirate’s Choice Internationale has announced that they will present the first annual JuJu Fest, a ten-night celebration of West African music that will take place during this year’s Jazz Fest in New ...

Senegalese bassist Alune Wade has been exploring global musical connections for more than a decade. He worked on Marcus ...

Jùjú music traces its roots to the traditional, mostly drum based music of the Yoruba, one of Nigeria’s largest ethnic groups. Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Ade began playing the music ...

Born into YorKing Sunny Adeuba royalty in Nigeria, King Sunny Ade has spent the last 45 years defining and transforming the Nigerian music known as juju, bringing that sound of traditional Yoruba ...

Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

‘King Sunny Adé is not dead.” That was the headline in one Nigerian news source earlier this spring, as rumors of the great juju bandleader’s death circulated around his homeland. Speaking on the ...

As a thematic mission statement, “African Rhythms” lays it out. As a musical mission statement, “African Rhythms” was equally explicit. With its clamorous percussion bedding, the track is driving, ...

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The highly acclaimed Juju maestro, Segun Adeola Ogunyemi a.k.a. Sunny Melody, who was reportedly a travelling fly on his own in 2012 talks on his life,music, and his ride to fame. This is a man that ...

From I.K Dairo’s refreshing contribution, to King Sunny Ade and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, the legendary ying-yang of Juju music, Dami Ajayi traces the evolution of a genre which spanned the oil ...