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Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise...

Midge Ure, OBE (born James Ure, 10 October 1953 in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish guitarist, singer, keyboard player, and songwriter. He enjoyed particular success in the 1970s and 1980s in bands including Slik, Thin Lizzy, The Rich Kids,...

Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, (born 16 January 1959), better known as Sade (pronounced /ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY), is an Nigerian-British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the popular Brit...

Sir Tom Jones OBE (born Thomas Jones-Woodward on 7 June 1940), is a Welsh singer. Since 1965, Jones has sold over 100 million records.

John Mayall, OBE (born 29 November 1933) is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. His musical career spans over fifty years, but the most notable episode in it occurred during the late '60s. He was the founder of...

Jonathan Stephen Ross OBE (born 17 November 1960) is an English film critic and presenter of radio and television. Working extensively with the BBC, Ross has presented The Film Programme since 1997, his own chat show, Friday Night With Jonathan...

Bola Abimbola- a Nigerian singer/songwriter, born in 1966 in Lagos. Debuted professionally as a songwriter and producer for young Nigerian artists, including Daddy Showkey, Saheed Osupa and Pasuma.

P-Square are a Nigerian R&B duo composed of identical twin brothers Peter and Paul Okoye.

Genevieve Nnaji, (pronounced /n'nɑːdʒɪ/, born May 3, 1979 in Mbaise, Imo State, Nigeria), is a Nigerian actress. In 2005 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Anthony Olanrewaju Awotoye better known as Tony Tetuila is an Afro hip hop artist from Nigeria. His name, Olanrewaju, means "My wealth is the future". Formerly a member of The Remedies (along with Eedris Abdulkareem and Eddy Montana), he split...