Sir Shina Peters

Born on May 30 in 1958 as Oluwashina Akanbi Peters to Victoria Asake Peters and Emmanuel Adakun Peters, growing up for the music legend came with its challenges. With two siblings and their parents living in a one room apartment, things weren't exactly rosy for them and the prospects of having a proper education was not high. At the young age of 8, Sir Shina Peters told his parents that education was not for him. He decided to pursue his music career which as at that time, was already growing with him being the church choir leader who played the keyboard and organ well.

His love for music grew stronger as he grew older. Fascinated by the melodious art, Sir Shina created his own music band which he called Olushina and His Twelve Fantastic Brothers. While in this band, he soon learnt how to play the piano all by himself and shortly after, his luck began to change for the better.

On his journey towards building his music career, he left his parents and became a houseboy to Chief Ebenezer Obey. Whenever, Ebenezer was not around, he would play his guitar. A spot to shine soon opened as the guitarist in Ebenezer's band, Prince Adekunle had an accident in 1980. In the audition that had 36 people hoping to be picked, Sir Peters was selected. He soon became an integral band of the band and would later leave the band to join that of General Prince Adekunle's as a guitar player. Adekunle's band played in Lagos hotels such as Western Hotel, Palm Beach Hotel and Executive Hotel. When Adekunle was ill, Peters sometimes acted as lead singer. The band which was a famous band at this time received numerous requests, one of which led them to travel to the UK.

Sir Shina Peters proved to be a man of determination as he was soon to leave General Adekunle's band to form Shina Adewale, a band with Juju Maestro Segun Adewale. However, the duo enjoyed a short music union as they soon split. Shina Peters, after releasing many albums with Segun Adewale through the 1980s, went on to form his own band, Sir Shina Peters & His International Stars. The band soon released the first album Ace (Afro-Juju Series 1) and it turned out to be a record breaker pushing Sir Shina Peters into the limelight. The album which is a musical fusion between Juju and Afrobeat, went double platinum. Things only seemed to get better from there. He soon followed with his second album titled Shinamania and that too received massive love from his fans. This album only proved that Sir Shina and his band were definitely revolutionizing the Juju Music scene in Africa.

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