Dele Fadele

Biography

Ayodele Fadele (8 August 1962 – March 2018) was an English musician and music journalist who was active from the mid-1980s. He wrote for the NME in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was one of the first music critics to introduce then emerging US rap artists such as Public Enemy, De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest to mainstream British music fans. Fadele had broad musical tastes, ranging from hip-hop and acid house to shoegazing, industrial and grunge.

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