Vinyl records

Sonny Okosun vinyl records

1 album with 10 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Sonny Okosuns. Born: 1st January 1947 Enugu, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria Died: 24th May 2008 Washington DC, USA Nigerian singer, guitarist and composer. Sonny Okosuns added the final “s” to his surname in adulthood. He was referred to by both names. A self-taught guitar player, in 1964, at the age of 17, Sonny formed the Postmen, a covers band also known as the "Local Beatles". He visited London with a theatre group for the 1965 1st Commonwealth Arts Festival, but in 1967 the Biafran war prompted both the dissolution of the Postmen and a move by Okosun and his family to Lagos.