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Nigeria's King Sunny Adé and his 20-piece African Beats hypnotize audiences with juju --deeply layered, percussive groove music. Juju started in the '20s as local bar music and developed over the years absorbing new technologies and influences.
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www.afropop.org/explore/artist_info/ID/25/King%20Sunny%20Ad%C3%A9/
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One of the most popular and important performers of the Nigerian musical style known as Juju--a fluid, highly rhythmic music that used traditional African percussion to create a dense, multi-layered sound--King Sunny Ade brought new stylistic concepts to the form and helped introduce the music to an international audience.
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www.buy.com/prod/juju_music/q/loc/18250/60187984.html
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He had a PhD in musicology with interest in African music and instrument. ... This was the tool that Decca West Africa used to introduce Ghanaian highlife to Nigeria in the early 50s. ... The new approach was introduced with 1984’s It’s Time For Juju Music and came to maturity with the following year’s Confrontation.
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Jùjú music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. The name comes from Juju, a form of magic and the use of magic objects or witchcraft common in West Africa. It e...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jùjú_music
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A global portal for African Music, World Music, International music ... African Drum Beat - Educational and informative site dedicated to West African drumming rhythms and percussion music from Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and particularly rhythms associated with Djembe, Sabar, and Kpanlogo drums.
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www.africanmusichub.com/
www.africanmusichub.com/
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1 to 2 out of 2 offers for JuJu Music - King Sunny Ade ... Quite possibly the most beautiful and influential West African record ever released ... more ... SHOPPING >Music > World > West African World > JuJu Music - King Sunny Ade...
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African reggae muisc including lucky dube and alpha blondy ... Nigeria's Sonny Okusuns paved the way for an explosion of African Reggae, with his best selling records of the late 1970s that blended the Jamaican form with West African highlife and Juju music.
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www.panafricanallstars.com/reggae/afreggae.asp
www.panafricanallstars.com/reggae/afreggae.asp
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Ade's "juju music" was a modernization of the West African highlife style, taking African guitar pop to new heights. Ade had pioneered the new style for years before this album came out, but the smooth, glossy polish of producer Martin Meissonier adds the perfect touch for this seductive wall of sound.
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itunes.apple.com/us/album/juju-music/id340558
itunes.apple.com/us/album/juju-music/id340558
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