After more than a decade of resounding success in his native Nigeria,Sunny Adé was received to great acclaim in Europe and North America in 1982. The global release of "Juju Music" and its accompanying tour was "almost unanimously embraced by critics (if not consumers) everywhere". Sunny Adé was described in "The New York Times" as "one of the world's great band leaders", in "Record" as "a breath of fresh air, a positive vibration we will feel for some time to come" and in "Trouser Press" as "one of the most captivating and important musical artists anywhere in the world".