When Island Records went looking for a Bob Marley replacement following Marley's death in the early 1980s, someone at the label noticed the growing popularity of Nigeria's juju music and tapped King Sunny Ade (who was at the time in a running battle with Ebenezer Obey for juju primacy) as the Next Big Thing. Several fine albums resulted from that marriage, but juju turned out not to have reggae's global appeal, and King Sunny Ade was dropped from Island within a few years. Thus, this very ni...   [ read more ]

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