Modupe Afolabi Jemi-Alade (14 December 1937 – 29 June 1993), popularly known as Art Alade, was a Nigerian television personality and producer who was the host of The Bar Beach Show, a weekly variety show on NBC-TV that aired during the 1970s.
After he left NTA, he embarked on a career in music and established a club, Art's Place, where he performed regularly.
His father Babatunde was the first Yagba man to become a principal customs officer in Lagos in the early 1920s, and his mother taught music at a girl's only school; she was a granddaughter of Mohammed Shitta Bey.
[2] By 1964, on his return from the UK, he joined the staff of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, now known as NTA.
[2] He is the father of Nigerian multi-platinum and award-winning musician, singer-songwriter, and Idol series judge popularly called Darey.