Habib Koité
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Born in 1958, Habib Koité comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots. He developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the djelly n'goni, a traditional instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."
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Majek Fashek
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Majek Fashek (Born: Majekodunmi Fasheke) attracted international attention in
1987, when his self-penned tune,
"Send Down The Rain" seemed to coax a rain storm that ended one of the worst
draughts in Nigeria's history. Labled a "Prophet", Fashek went on to become one
of Africa's greatest reggae-influenced performers. His debut solo album,
Prisoners of Conscience, released in 1988 sold more than 200,000 copies in
Nigeria alone.
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SADE
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Helen Folasade Adu was born January 16, 1959, in Ibadan, Nigeria. The daughter of an economics professor and a nurse, Sade (pronounced shar-day) relocated with her English mother to Colchester, Essex, at the age of 4, after the separation of her parents.
Although Sade studied fashion design at St. Martin's Art College in London (her work was featured in Spandau Ballet's first American appearance), Sade's prime passion was music. Even in between part-time jobs as a teenager -- as a waitress, a bike messenger, and later as a model -- Sade always made time for music.
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I.K. Dairo
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The first truly international star of African music, Mr. Dairo specialized in juju music, a lively mixture of traditional Yoruba social dance drumming, songs, and praise poetry, Latin American rhythms, and Christian church hymns, performed on guitar, percussion, and talking drums. In a career spanning more than fifty years, Dairo made hundreds of records, and toured Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, paving the way for younger musicians such as King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, SIna Peters and many others. "
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Lágbájá
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Lágbájá always wears a mask on stage and in photographs. He discourages any focus on himself as a personality, preferring that the curious direct their attention to his eclectic, uplifting afrobeat music and probing lyrics instead. This makes it difficult to put together a standard artist biography. But no matter. Nothing about Lágbájá is standard.
Lágbájá says that the spiritual and rhythmic power in Yoruba drumming is the true source of his music, and also Nigeria's other popular forms, juju and fuji. In fact, while he is often presented as an afrobeat bandleader, Lágbájá plays all these styles and more. His 12-piece band blends western and traditional Yoruba instruments. Wireless guitars, bass, sax and keyboards and samplers play alongside dundun, sacred bata drums, sekere, akuba and other classical Yoruba elements. The sound is aggressively modern and ancient at the same time.
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JJC and 419 Squad
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Nigeria's dented image in the UK has been enjoying a much needed boost from a group of young musicians out to tell anyone who cares to listen that not everyone in the West African country is involved in financial scams.
JJC and the 419 Squad have been rousing crowds and using their singing and rapping talents to mend an image of Nigeria scarred by regular reports of Nigerian banking fraudsters fleecing unsuspecting victims across the world."
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