Kehinde Lijadu Dies Of Stroke At 71

Kehinde Lijadu, one of the two members of the Lijadu Sisters, a team that “ruled the Nigerian music scene” from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, is dead.

The music star, who is also a cousin to Fela Kuti, late Afrobeat legend, passed away in the early hours of Saturday in New York — after she suffered a severe stroke.
Kehinde was born on September 18, 1948.

She is renowned for her works including ‘Horizon Unlimited’, ‘Danger’, ‘Africa’, and ‘Sunshine’ with a slew of tracks like ‘Reincarnation’, ‘Danger’, and ‘Orere Elejigbo’ alongside Taiwo, her twin sister.

The duo, fondly called the Sisters of Lijadu, were once acclaimed to be West Africa’s version of the Pointer Sisters, a renowned American group of female singers, but gradually started fizzling out after Kehinde suffered spinal cord injuries from a fall at their Brooklyn apartment in the 90s.