I.K. Dairo

À propos de I.K. Dairo

I.K. Dairo was the first great star of jùjú music and the man who modernized it, adding the accordion and tight vocal harmonies to the Yoruba guitar-band sound. Hugely popular from the early 1960s, he was the first African musician appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He laid the foundation that King Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey would later build on.