Okosuns, Sonny

Okosuns, Sonny
▪ 2009
Sunny Okosun 
      Nigerian musician

born Jan. 1, 1947, Enugu or Benin City, Nigeria

died May 24, 2008, Washington, D.C.
composed songs advocating the Pan-African cause and supporting the reform of African social and political conditions. Okosuns (or Okosun), who sang both in English and in the Nigerian languages of Ishan and Ibo, created a unique musical style by combining various genres, including reggae, pop, rock, calypso, and Nigerian highlife dance music. As a youth, he taught himself guitar and played with several different bands before forming (1972) Paperback Ltd., which later became known as Ozziddi (“Message”). Although he produced dozens of albums, he first gained international acclaim with Fire in Soweto (1977). Okosuns played on the Artists Against Apartheid album Sun City (1985), and in 1994 he was invited to perform at the inauguration of South African Pres. Nelson Mandela. From the late 1980s Okosuns performed gospel music under the name Evangelist Sonny Okosuns; his gospel album Songs of Praise (1994) sold nearly a million copies. In 1998 he founded the House of Prayer Ministry in Ikeja.

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