{"id":42057,"date":"2019-01-14T19:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T17:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/strut-to-release-rare-album-from-nigerian-legend-sir-shina-peters\/"},"modified":"2021-02-11T12:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:05:20","slug":"strut-to-release-rare-album-from-nigerian-legend-sir-shina-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/strut-to-release-rare-album-from-nigerian-legend-sir-shina-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Strut to release rare album from Nigerian legend Sir Shina Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19817 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"933\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters.jpg 933w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters-759x543.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters-661x473.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Sir-Shina-Peters-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4>Released in 1986,\u00a0<em>Sewele\u00a0<\/em>is an important record for J\u00f9j\u00fa music.<\/h4>\n<p>Sir Shina Peters is one the most prolific Afro-Juju musicians, a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of traditional J\u00f9j\u00fa music and Afrobeat. It\u00a0became very popular in the early 1990s with Sir Shina Peters becoming one of the most recognized advocate of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Strut present an exclusive new reissue of a great (and now very rare) original album from the early career of the Juju Maestro, <em>Sewele<\/em> from 1986.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Sewele\u2019 represented a time of transition in my music career,\u201d explains Peters. \u201cI had branched out to start as a solo artist after spells with Ebenezer Obey, Prince Adekunle and Segun Adewale and I was trying to find my own voice and to play juju in a more progressive direction. This was an important time for me. Three years later, I had honed that sound into Afro-Juju, and my \u2018Ace: Afro Juju Series 1\u2019 album broke me as an artist.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=946701124\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" seamless=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sirshinapeters.bandcamp.com\/album\/sewele\">Sewele by Sir Shina Peters &amp; His International Stars<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This new reissue features all original artwork and a new sleeve note by Sir Shina Peters telling the story of the album and his wider career. The album audio has been restored by See Why Audio and remastered by The Carvery.<\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/reissues-2018\/\">The 25 best reissues of 2018<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 1986,\u00a0Sewele\u00a0is an important record for J\u00f9j\u00fa music. Sir Shina Peters is one the most prolific Afro-Juju musicians, a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of traditional J\u00f9j\u00fa music and Afrobeat. It\u00a0became very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[30275],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42057"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}