Dele abiodun biography books

                                                                                           The career of ‘Admiral’ Dele Abiodun – born 1948 in Bendel StateNigeria - stratches back to the late sixties.

Resisting his parents’ plans for a career in medicine, Dele Abiodun used his school fees to enrol at the Young Pioneers School of Music in Accra, Ghana. Here he immersed himself in highlife music, playing bass in several bands, before returning to Nigeria in 1969 and basing himself in Lagos. 

There he founded his own band, Sweet Abby And The Tophitters, who played Ghanaian-style highlife.  Gradually Abiodun developed his music by incorporating juju and afrobeat elements into an entirely unique ' modern juju sound', which