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claims to have brought King Sunny Adé to Island's attention, his familiarity being from his life on Malta in the 60s listening to
African Radio and Armed Forces Radio. Sunny Adé gained a wide following with this album and was soon billed as "the African Bob Marley".
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Nigeria with massive airplay. Nonetheless, Sunny Adé's musical output has continued to inspire a vast generation of other Nigerian musicians, who believe in the big band musical set up which Sunny Adé and late
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which he mostly uses as an entrance song during live performances. The sound was made with a phalanx of electric guitars that functions like a percussion section and talking drums that sound like a gossipy Greek chorus.
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and its accompanying tour was "almost unanimously embraced by critics (if not consumers) everywhere". Sunny Adé was described in
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