One of the most popular and important performers of the Nigerian musical style known as Juju--a fluid, highly rhythmic music that used traditional African percussion to create a dense, multi-layered sound--King Sunny Ade brought new stylistic concepts to the form and helped introduce the music to an international audience. By the 1980s, Ade had crossed over from being strictly an African celebrity to being heralded in the U.K., Europe, and eventually the United States. He remains one of the most groundbreaking figures in Afro-pop history.