Jùjú music - Citizendia

For other uses, see Juju (disambiguation).

Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion. Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal Constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more The Music of the Yoruba people of Nigeria is best known for an extremely advanced drumming tradition especially using the Dundun hourglass It evolved in the 1920s in urban clubs across the countries. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada The first jùjú recordings were by Tunde King and Ojoge Daniel from the 1920s. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada

Following World War II, electric instruments began to be included, and pioneering musicians like I. K. Dairo, King Sunny Adé and Ebenezer Obey made the genre the most popular in Nigeria, incorporating new influences like funk, reggae and Afrobeat and creating new subgenres like yo-pop. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Isaiah Kehinde Dairo (1930 MBE (1930&ndash1996 was a notable Nigerian Jùjú musician Early life I King Sunny Adé ( Sunday Adeniyi, born September 22 1946) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music. Ebenezer Obey (born 1942) Nicknamed the " Chief Commander," is a Nigerian pop musician. Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended Soul music, Soul Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, Jazz, Highlife, and Funk Rhythms fused with percussion and Vocal Yo-pop is a style of Nigerian popular music, popularized in the 1980s by Segun Adewale. This music, unlike apala, sakara, and fuji, was not created by Muslim Yoruba, and is therefore secular. Adé was the first to include the pedal steel guitar, which had previously been used only in American country music. The pedal steel guitar is a type of Electric guitar that uses a metal slide to stop the strings rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains.

Jùjú music is performed primarily by artists from the southwestern region of Nigeria, where the Yoruba are the most numerous ethnic group. In performance, audience members commonly shower jùjú musicians with paper money; this tradition is known as "spraying. "

External links

King Sunny Ade interview by Jason Gross from Perfect Sound Forever site (June 1998)
Jùjú music on Nigeria-Arts website nice collection of Jùjú artists and music
Nigerian Music Videos

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