King Sunny Ade is one of the most successful, widely celebrated and well known African entertainers of all time. Sunny Ade, whose real name is Sunday Ishola Anthony Adeniyi Adegeye, has proven in over 5 decades of artistry that traditional Nigerian music, made in indigenous languages can gain global recognition and win hearts of fans from all over the world.
The multiple Grammy Awards nominee revealed in an interview on Accelerate TV ’s The Maverick show, how being from a royal family in Ondo State nearly deterred him from becoming a professional musician. According to KSA, his family was not in support of the idea of becoming musicians, believing that princes and kings should be praised and not be beggarly ‘praise singers’, as musicians were
The multiple Grammy Awards nominee revealed in an interview on Accelerate TV ’s The Maverick show, how being from a royal family in Ondo State nearly deterred him from becoming a professional musician. According to KSA, his family was not in support of the idea of becoming musicians, believing that princes and kings should be praised and not be beggarly ‘praise singers’, as musicians were