The Lijadu Sisters are identical twins from Nigeria. They were mostly active between 1969 - 1979. They combined Soul, Disco, Psych and whatever wacky African shit they were into. I'm not gonna pretend I know what that stuff is.
In Nigeria at the time most songs were about Allah and folk lore that was even older than the Quran. They messed up peoples shit by writing songs about love, dancing and occasionally about how they didn't like what was going on in their neighborhood... and also just by being female entertainers, which wasn't really a thing there yet.
In 1972 they played the Olympics in Munich. In '76 they got a deal with Decca. One deals where you're set up to owe the label money for the rest of your life. Not too classy for a company that's put out every big British act from The Stones to Morrissey.
In 1984 a compilation of outtakes ironically got them exposure in the US and they moved to, you guessed it, Brooklyn. The New York Times called them "a West African parallel to the Pointer Sisters" which is the most New York Times thing ever. Does this really sound like 'I'm So Excited' to you, you deaf fuck? I'm going to post some Lijadu Sisters and I'll put throw in a Pointer Sisters song too. Lets see if you can tell the difference.
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