<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/13/obit.olatunji.reut/index.html" target="_blank">World music pioneer Olatunji dead</a>

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- World music pioneer Babatunde Olatunji, the Nigerian drummer and bandleader whose groundbreaking 1959 recording "Drums of Passion" brought African music to a wide American audience, died April 6. He was 76.