Adu is a flamboyant, colourful character who has been, and is currently involved in, many different forms of cultural expression. He has professional experience in composing both music and verse: not for him rhyming platitudes, strung together for the convenience of the song. In the mid ‘80s, Adu was signed to the James Bond producers-owned Modtone label. His debut album, Human 2 Human, was released in the spring of 1989 and created the awareness to his music and name. His creation was a completely new brand of music: a fusion so original that no-one could name it, let alone draw any meaningful comparison. Live concerts and television appearances produced glowing reviews of his highly entertaining band. Subsequent albums: Elasticity of Love, sung entirely in Ashanti, Adu’s native tongue, was released in 1994; Barefoot in Snow was released in 2004; Brixton Renaissance was released in the summer of 2012; Swimming in the Sahara (with a frog on my tail), released 2015; A compilation double CD, Between the Cracks, released August 16, a precursor to his forthcoming brand new studio album, None The Wiser, due out Friday, 3 July 2020. A former drama critic and columnist for, most notably, West Indian World, The Journal, City Limits, Root, Staunch and West Africa magazines, Adu has had two volumes of poetry published. The first, The Rise & Rise Of General Gun (Karnak Books, £9.99) in 1984, The Nim Tree Chants (Ram Books, £12.99)surfaced in 1990. An ex-soldier and former managing editor of the defunct arts monthly, EX magazine, Adu founded the poetry@thefoundry poetry club in London’s Shorditch in 1998, followed by a short-lived stint at Charlie Wright’s, in Hoxton in 2014. He is the author of five stage plays, namely, Musa & The Seven-Eyed God, Grope For Your Head, Familiar Ground (with the actor and poet T-Bone Wilson), A Day In The Life Of An Onion, The Many Lives of Johnny Q. In 1989, Adu was appointed the London Borough of Brent’s playwright-in-residence and, in the same year, co-edited the poetry anthology, Open Eyes, with the author and critic, Dr Amon Saba Saakana. In 2015 Adu and the theatre director, Fyna Dowe, founded Head Healers Theatre Company.