Just the same, since the dawn of recorded music, Nigeria\'s enormous population (110 million in 1998), has provided an unusually strong market for local pop music. King Sunny Adé, I.K. Dairo, and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey put Yoruba derived juju music on the national map, making it the country\'s most popular music in the 1970s and early `80s. Sikuru Ayinde Barrister and Kollington Ayinla extended the popularity of fuji music far beyond its original Muslim audience to the point where it overtook juju music during the late `80s. Fela Anikulapo Kuti created a truly modern style, afrobeat, and his son Femi Kuti carries that torch today. But these well-known artists are just the beginning of a world that includes reggae, highlife, jazz, rap, and countless varieties of traditional music. The Afropop database contains profiles of a number of Nigerian musicians, as well as write-ups on three of the country\'s major music styles: juju, fuji, and highlife.">

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