GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us from ...

The Recording Academy announced the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award ahead of the Special Merits Awards 2026.

Afrobeat start, Seun Kuti has shared his opinion on prayer, revealing that he doesn't believes in prayer. In a recent video ...

Fela Kuti was a man of many hats: Afrobeat pioneer, revolutionary, and outspoken crusader for political justice. Music was his weapon, a driving, pulsating, often hypnotic sound mixing jazz, soul, ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Nigerian drummer Tony Allen's debut with pioneering Afrobeat master Fela Kuti. Allen played with Fela's band Africa 70 as drummer and musical director until ...

In the spectrum of global music and culture, a powerful force is rising—not quietly, but with the thunderous beat of talking drums, hypnotic basslines, and unapologetic energy. Afrobeat, more than ...

Budding singer, Oluwafemi Babatunde, a.k.a Femzee, has said he was at a very low point in his life when he recorded the song, One Life. Speaking with SUNDAY SCOOP, he said, “I made that song at a very ...

A musician like Fela Ransome-Kuti comes along once in a century. A sonic innovator and a political revolutionary, the Nigerian pioneer of Afrobeat (along with drummer Tony Allen, musical director of ...

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