Segun Adewale

While King Sunny Ade may be the “ruler” of juju music, Segun Adewale may be the music’s “crown prince”. Acquiring the music of Ade one stage further, Adewale included funk, reggae, pop and Highlife affects to his juju root base to generate an offshoot that he phone calls, “Yopo”, brief for Yoruban pop. Like Ade, Adewale was created to some Yoruban royal family members. Although he was prompted to become lawyer or a health care provider, he left college to get his popularity and fortune being a musician. His initial break emerged when he was asked to become listed on I.K. Dairo’s music group in Lagos. A season later, he still left Dairo’s group to execute with Key S.L. Atolagbe’s Holy Rainbow. Adewale shaped his very own group, the Superstars, in 1973. The music group, nevertheless, lasted for a bit more than a 12 months. Following a disbanding from the Superstars, Adewale required a posture as co-leader, alongside Sir Shina Peters, of Prince Adekunle’s Traditional western Brothers Music group. He remained using the group until 1977 when he and Shina and six additional members from the music group created Shina Adewale And Superstars International. After Peters remaining in 1979, Adewale assumed management of the group. A 12 months later, he created his second incarnation from the Superstars with twenty music artists. Although Adewale as well as the Superstars in the beginning played within the juju design pioneered by Ade, they started to create their very own sound using the 1982 recording, Endurance. 2 yrs later on, the group’s recording, Play FOR ME PERSONALLY, which featured British lyrics, premiered in britain around the Stern’s label. Tunes from your band’s early Nigerian albums had been comprised and released as Ojo Je in 1985. Although Adewale as well as the Superstars performed three critically-acclaimed concerts in the Edinburgh International Event, in 1985, their recognition appeared to possess waned from the late-1980s.