[4/5] ‘Chop And Run’: A more laid-back offering than the album’s opener, drawing upon influences of the Caribbean, Kuti delivers a stark account of the state of modern-day Nigeria, including talk of ...

Afrobeat singer Femi Kuti has disputed claims that Tony Allen co-pioneered Afrobeats with his father Fela Kuti. According to Femi, in a video, Fela was a multi-instrumentalist and composer who ...

The newest album ... lyrics. Kuti has lived a full life, fighting against political corruption, working with Global Citizen, running The New African Shrine in Lagos with his sister Yeni, and promoting ...

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Having spent the 1960s slowly pioneering Afrobeat by melding Western funk and jazz stylings with traditional Yoruba music, Fela Kuti ... has proved the album’s most viscerally memorable, ‘Mr Follow ...

Multi-Grammy-nominated artiste Femi Kuti, and son of the legendary Fela Kuti, has refuted claims ... not just a product. My upcoming album Journey Through Life (out April 25) was born during ...

Opening day of the 2025 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was as perfect a day to spend outside enjoying music and food ...

Multiple Grammy-nominated musician Femi Kuti, the son of late Afrobeats pioneer Fela Kuti, has denied that his father and the late, great drummer Tony Allen co-founded the genre. Due to his work as ...

it would be another decade before Seun Kuti would record his first album in 2008, That debut effort, entitled Many Things, was produced by Martin Meissonnier, who had already worked with Fela on ...