At home with the Lijadu Sisters!
Taiwo and Kehinde Lijadu are identical twin sisters from Nigeria. Throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s they performed and recorded as The Lijadu Sisters, fusing Western R&B, soul, reggae and funk, creating honest, politically-charged songs with a matriarchal bent. Aside from being megastars in Nigeria (some liken them to being the West African equivalent of The Pointer Sisters), they toured with King Sunny Ade, Art Blakey, Ginger Baker and other legends before Kehinde was injured while on tour in US. Recently, Knitting Factory Records discovered The Lijadu Sisters were living in New York, and sought to re-release a handful of their best albums, including the 1976 album, Danger
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