Shina Peters Releases Two New Albums

Oluwashina Akambi Pe
ters popularly known as Shina Peters has stormed the music industry with two new albums making it a total of 16 album releases to his credit and has received numerous awards and recognition for unparalled prowess in the art of writing, composition and choreography as well as musical ability.
The Afro Juju music exponents started singing at the age of ten as a chorister in cherubim and seraphim church. He began his career while playing the guiter with General Prince Adekunle, later formed his own group with Juju Maestro Segun Adewale. Shina Peters after releasing many albums with Segun Adewale through the 1980s went on to form his own band “Sir Shina Peters and his international stars.”
Their first album release ‘Ace’ (Afro Juju series) in 1989 went double platinum and was the career break through which catapulted Sir Shina Peters back to limelight, ‘Ace’ was a musical fusion between juju and Afrobeat, a rhymthic collaboration  which pierced ethnic, cultural and language barriers in Nigeria.
The second album release ‘Shinamarria’ (Afro juju series 2) went on to further prove that Shina Peters and his international stars band were on the verge to change and revolutionize the juju music scene in Africa. He sold millions of albums worldwide and has taken his music to the shores of South Africa, Europe, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and United States of America. He is currently signed to orbit entertainment, his USA agency based in New York.
Sir Shina Peters is a well recognized symbol of music evolution in Nigeria popularizing one of Africa’s most important genres, he is seen as a force for great musical movements. To say that Sir Shina Peters is an indefatigable performer is like stating the obvious. The Afro Juju Ace, who is in his late 50s put up a scintillating performance recently at the City People Awards in lagos where he thrilled the audience  with a lot of his popular tunes.