VERY RARE Sonny & the Postmen SWINGING AFRICA - THE NIGERBEAT 45 Record 1964/65

	£		337
	$		446

Description

This is a SUPER RARE item.
This 7" single is by Sonny & the Postmen, featuring Sonny Okosun.
This is an extended single from 1965, the band was formed in Enugu, Nigeria in 1965 and were considered the "Local Beatles". This was felt to be pivotal in the African music scene. The band performed pop covers of Western acts like Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard and The Beatles.
Side One Shillings and Pence Fever and Cold
Side Two Utumeime - Highlife Mr. Kazi's Daughter
Condition is good, some minor wear to sleeve. Please see photos for detailed condition.

Nigerian singer, guitarist and composer. Sonny Okosuns added the final "s" to his surname in adulthood. He was referred to by both names. A self-taught guitar player, in 1964, at the age of 17, Sonny formed the Postmen, a covers band also known as the

"Local Beatles". He visited London with a theatre group for the 1965 1st Commonwealth Arts Festival, but in 1967 the Biafran war prompted both the dissolution of the Postmen and a move by Okosun and his family to Lagos. There, he worked briefly in television before moving to Benin, where in 1969 he joined Victor Uwaifo's Melody Maestros as a second guitarist

He formed his first professional band in 1971 called Paperback Ltd., which he disbanded in 1974 and went on to form Ozziddi in

1976. Widely popular in the West African region during the late

1970's and early 1980's, he enjoyed some international attention, most notably for his cooperation with Eddy Grant in several releases. Of these, the album "Fire In Soweto" with its hit title tune was to enjoy the largest success.

By the late Eighties, Okosun's star was fading, but he reinvented himself as "Evangelist Sonny Okosuns" and with the 1994 comeback album "Songs of Praise" , which sold nearly a million

copies, rode a wave of Christian evangelism in Nigeria to become that country's foremost gospel musician. In 1998, he founded the House of Prayer Ministry, converting part of his expansive building to a church.

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