Sandra Izsadore influenced Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti during his 1969 U.S. visit. While not its creator, her impact on the genre ...

Fela Kuti married the 27 women of his group in a traditional Yoruba ceremony Bernard Matussière Fela Kuti's dancers, in the early 1980s Bernard Matussière A shopping session during a tour in ...

Seun expressed his love and loyalty to his father’s legacy, stating that every aspect of his music is a tribute to Fela. He confessed missing his father while affirming his commitment to ...

In 1978, the pioneer of Afrobeats, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, married 27 women in one day. This should not be strange to those who know the life and style of the Nigerian music legend nicknamed Abami ...

Afrobeat icon, Femi Kuti has revealed that he faced opposition from his father, Fela Kuti and his fans after he left the Afrobeat pioneer’s band to form his own in 1986. He explained that Fela ...

Those are the creators of Afro-Juju music ... Kuti, till he matured to the point of being able to control everything himself, and I have achieved that. I have stayed there for 27 years after Fela ...

Even the globally popular Afrobeats (with an “s”) pays homage to Fela and the sound he created through its appropriation of the Afrobeat name and sampling of his music. My PhD research as a ...

As a music scholar studying the global obsession surrounding Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and the cultural and political ... He writes: That an artist, 27 years after his death, is able to achieve such ...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the Afrobeats trailblazer, who married 27 women simultaneously in 1978, an act that was considered quite bold at the time. During an appearance on the 'Fresh Off The Boat ...

Twenty years ago, the AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot unveiled Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a tribute record that recruited over three dozen artists in celebration of the ...

The son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti spoke of his father's bravery in using "music as a weapon" ahead of an immersive exhibition opening at the Paris Philha... Already a Barron's subscriber? Sign In ...