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

Fela's youngest son, Seun Kuti, extends his father’s legacy ... He attended the MUSON School of Music in Lagos and later studied popular music and sound technology at the Liverpool Institute ...

Rollingstone describe Fela Kuti as ... See full list of Rollingstone's top 200 singers of all time HERE. Burna Boy the Grammy winning megastar whose music is taking Afrobeats to the global ...

In Fela Kuti's most popular biography "The Bitch of A Life" byCarlos Moore, there was no mention of Tony Allen's contribution to creating Afrobeat. "Nobody can tell us about Fela because we were ...

Fela Kuti died in 1997, but his legacy lives on. Today, afrobeat is a popular genre of music that continues to evolve and change. Modern afrobeat artists, such as Burna Boy and WizKid, have gained ...

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) used Fela's popular song "Eko Ile" during one of its campaign activities for their 2023 presidential campaign. The family of late Nigerian multi ...

Paris (AFP) – The son of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti spoke of his father's ... But it was ultimately the genius of his music that made him so popular, creating something entirely new with its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nigerian media personality, Yeni Kuti, has revealed that her late father and pioneer of Afrobeats, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, was admitted into the Trinity College of Music, London, in 1958, out of pity.