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Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (born 1938 in Abeokuta, Nigeria) began his career playing jazz and highlife. He formed his first band in London in 1959 while studying at Trinity College of Music.
Enjoy the best of Fela Kuti, the legendary Afrobeat pioneer and activist, in this compilation of his greatest hits. Watch him perform live with his band and dancers, and listen to his iconic songs ...
1938 Olufela Olusegun Oludoton Ransome-Kuti - Fela - is born on 15 October in Abeokuta, a town fifty miles north of Lagos.; 1946 Fela begins learning the piano, encouraged by his father, who believes studying music is an essential part of a good education.; 1954 On a visit to Lagos, Fela meets Jimo Kombi Braimah, known to everyone as JK, who will become his life-long friend and confidant.
A biografia oficial de Fela Kuti foi escrita em 1982 por Carlos Moore e encontra-se disponível em português desde 2011, sob o título "Fela, Esta vida Puta". [ 6] Fela Kuti nasceu em Abeocutá, no estado de Ogum, na Nigéria, em uma família de classe média alta do ramo ebá dos Iorubás. Sua mãe, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a primeira mulher ...
10 de jun. de 2020 · June 10, 2020. Resistance is etched into Afrobeat, the music forged by the Nigerian bandleader and activist Fela Kuti in the 1970s and 1980s. It’s in lyrics that denounce brutality, corruption ...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, geboren als Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (Abeokuta, 15 oktober 1938 – Lagos, 2 augustus 1997), was een Nigeriaanse muzikant en politiek activist. Hij ontwikkelde een eigen muziekstijl, die hij afrobeat noemde. Zijn familie behoort tot de Yoruba-stam.
Fela Kuti bezeichnete sich selbst als antikolonialistischen Panafrikaner.Er wird jedoch von Kritikern auch als ein demagogischer, sexistischer Fundamentalist gesehen. Seine Rolle als angeblicher Wiederentdecker traditioneller afrikanischer Werte gab ihm den Vorwand, Frauen als verfügbare Ware zu betrachten.
