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Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti
(Fela Ransome Kuti, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1938 - 1997):
Singer-composer, bandleader, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard player, and politician. Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names.
He began as a highlife singer in 1954 and during this period developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz.
In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taking his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time ...
(Fela Ransome Kuti, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1938 - 1997):
Singer-composer, bandleader, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard player, and politician. Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names.
He began as a highlife singer in 1954 and during this period developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz.
In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taking his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time ...
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Discography of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti has died of AIDS-related reasons and heart failure. According to the article by Chido Nwangwu in USAfrica ONLINE, he died on Saturday August 2, 1997 after several weeks of illness at the age of 58. "The immediate cause of death of Fela was heart failure but there were many complications arising from the Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome,'' Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a medical doctor and Fela's older brother told a news conference in Lagos on Sunday August 3, 1997. Before his death, Fela refused treatment for his deterioratinghealth ...
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Ntama: Online Journal for African Music and Popular Culture: Fela Anikulapo-Kuti:
The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian composer, musician, singer, bandleader and above all political activist took up the term Second Slavery to emphasize the situation present day musicians in Africa - and I am sure not only in Africa - are in. In this second issue some of the contributions dealing with this topic. But we will continue to adress this problem in the future as well ...
The late Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian composer, musician, singer, bandleader and above all political activist took up the term Second Slavery to emphasize the situation present day musicians in Africa - and I am sure not only in Africa - are in. In this second issue some of the contributions dealing with this topic. But we will continue to adress this problem in the future as well ...
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Africaman Original,
by Carter Van Pelt: Fela Anikulapo Kuti: A leaden cloud crept over Africa on August 2nd, 1997. Tears flowed from eyes in Nigeria, in Africa, and all over the world. Hearts became heavier. Many wished it hadn't happened. Some accepted it as part of a divine order. Anyone who was conscious of it at all recognized it as the end of an era. The battle hardened and seemingly invincible African music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti was dead at 58 from heart failure related to AIDS.
To the Pan-African world, Fela was a towering figure who arguably combined elements of pure artistry, political perseverance, and a mystic, spiritual consciousness in a way that no other individual ever has. Musically, he achieved a level comparable to Miles Davis, James Brown, Thelonius Monk, and Bob Marley ...
by Carter Van Pelt: Fela Anikulapo Kuti: A leaden cloud crept over Africa on August 2nd, 1997. Tears flowed from eyes in Nigeria, in Africa, and all over the world. Hearts became heavier. Many wished it hadn't happened. Some accepted it as part of a divine order. Anyone who was conscious of it at all recognized it as the end of an era. The battle hardened and seemingly invincible African music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti was dead at 58 from heart failure related to AIDS.
To the Pan-African world, Fela was a towering figure who arguably combined elements of pure artistry, political perseverance, and a mystic, spiritual consciousness in a way that no other individual ever has. Musically, he achieved a level comparable to Miles Davis, James Brown, Thelonius Monk, and Bob Marley ...
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti
(Fela Ransome Kuti, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1938 - 1997):
Singer-composer, bandleader, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard player, and politician. Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names.
He began as a highlife singer in 1954 and during this period developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz.
In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taking his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time ...
(Fela Ransome Kuti, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1938 - 1997):
Singer-composer, bandleader, trumpet, saxophone, keyboard player, and politician. Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names.
He began as a highlife singer in 1954 and during this period developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz.
In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taking his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time ...
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Mca Records: Fela Kuti:
News, biography, photographs, brief discography with audio samples, and discussion.
News, biography, photographs, brief discography with audio samples, and discussion.
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