Juju music legend, Prince Adekunle, dies at 74 (Photo)

Juju music legend, Prince Adekunle, dies at 74 (Photo)

Prince Adekunle

  Legendary ‘Juju’ musician, Adeyinka Adekunle, popularly called General Prince Adekunle is dead. A cousin of the deceased, Femi Adekunle, confirmed that he died at the age of 74 after spending about three weeks at the Federal Medical Centre, Abeokuta.


  Late Prince Adekunle was a Nigerian Jùjú musician of Egba origin, from Abeokuta in Ogun State.  He was born on October 22, 1942. The late Adekunle, who reigned in the 60s and 70s, trained other popular musicians such as Sir Shina Peters and Segun Adewale.

  Meantime, veteran actor, Kasimu Yero has died in Kaduna yesterday, at the age of 70.

  The deceased’s eldest son, Mansur Kasimu Yero, said in Kaduna that his father died at his residence in Magajin Gari, Kaduna, after a protracted illness.

  Yero, who was buried at Bachama Road Cemetry in Kaduna, is survived by eight children.

  Yero would be fondly remembered for his role as ‘Uncle Gaga’ in the now rested ’80s situational comedy, Cock Crow At Dawn, and as one of the lead characters in Abubakar Imam’s TV series, Magana Jari Ce.

  The deceased was one of the early popular northern faces in Nigeria’s entertainment industry and had the flair of interpreting humorous scripts.

Source: Okogba