Adé, Sunny

LC control no.	n 91129995
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	ML420.A27 Biography
Personal name heading	Adé, Sunny *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Adé, King Sunny Adeniyi, Sunday
Associated country	Nigeria
Birth date	19460922
Place of birth	Ondo (Nigeria)
Affiliation	Island Records Green Spots (Musical group) Sunny Aldade Records Nigerian Musicians Union African Beats (Musical group) Nigeria-Africa Song Label
Profession or occupation	Singers Soul musicians
Found in	Juju music [SR] p1982: label (King Sunny Adé) container insert (Sunny Adé) OCLC 18618549 (hdg.: Adé, King Sunny) Hooked to music, 1996: p. 100-101 (Nigerian guitarist; b. Sept. 1946 in Ondo, Nigeria) King Sunny Adé, 1989: pref. (Sunday Adeniyi) New Grove dict. of mus. WWW site, Oct. 13, 2004: Adé, "King" Sunny [Adeniyi, Sunday] (b. Oshogbo, Nigeria, 1946; Nigerian performer, "King" of Jùjú music) Nigeria-Arts.Net WWW Home page, Aug. 9, 2007 (King Sunny Adé; singer, composer, guitarist) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed October 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Adé, King Sunny; Sunday Adeniyi Adé; popular singer, soul musician; born 22 September 1946 in Ondo, Ondo, Nigeria; joined the musical group of singer Moses Olaiya and his Rhythm Dandies (1963); formed his own group the Green Spots (1966); recorded many albums with the Nigeria-Africa Song Label (1967-1972); renamed his band the African Beats and set up his own record label, Sunny Aldade Records (1974); his beloved album Synchro System Movement drew influences from Fela Kuti's Afro-Beat style (1976); his group expanded to roughly twenty members and featured expensive synthesizers, tenor guitars, and many dancers (1979); his group African Beats recorded with Chris Blackwell (1982); Island Records dropped him (1984); became head of the Nigerian Musicians Union; the most popular juju artist of his lifetime)