Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti ( born 16 June 1962 ) popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.

He created his own band Positive Force in the late 1980s with Dele Sosimi ( Gbedu Resurrection ), former key-board player of Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Carlos Moore is said to be the only official biographer of Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

Ogun State has produced many of the most important Yoruba leaders, politicians, business leaders and musicians in Nigeria, including Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Chief MKO Abiola, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief Ernest Shonekan, General Oladipo Diya, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Iyalode J A Aromire, Dr. Gbolabo Oyede, Sir G. O Adenuga-Taiwo, Chief Peter Olakeinde Sogbesan, Chief Kuforiji Olubi, Prof Ola Rotimi, Prof Olikoye Ransome Kuti, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Prof. Wole Soyinka, Prof Onabamiro, Dr. Tai Solarin, Dr Efunbo Dosekun, Otunba Subomi Balogun, Chief Oba Otudeko, Chief Mike Adenuga, prof. Ogunlesi professor of medicine in Nigeria, Chief Olu Oyesanya, founder of the Nigerian Union of Journalists and Chief Gabriel Yemi Adetayo.

As drummer and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's band Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979, Tony Allen was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat music.

Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

Afrobeat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers and musicians like Brian Eno and David Byrne, who credit Fela Kuti as an essential muse.

* Fela Kuti

* Femi Kuti, Nigerian musician, son of Fela Kuti

* Seun Kuti, Nigerian musician, son of Fela Kuti

* 1938 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and political activist ( d. 1997 )

Fela Kuti was inspired by socialism and called for a democratic African republic.

1980's Remain in Light, heavily influenced by the afrobeat of Nigerian bandleader Fela Kuti, to whose music Eno had introduced the band, explored West African polyrhythms, weaving these together with Arabic music from North Africa, disco funk, and ' found ' voices.

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

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23 Skidoo borrowed from Fela Kuti and Miles Davis's On the Corner.

* August 2 – Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and composer, 58 ( Kaposi's sarcoma )

Baker formed and recorded with Ginger Baker's Energy and was involved in collaborations with Bill Laswell, jazz bassist Charlie Haden, jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, and pioneering afro beat musician Fela Kuti.

( Fela Kuti album ) ( 1971 )' Fela also appeared with Ginger Baker on Stratavarious ( 1972 ) alongside Bobby Gass, a pseudonym for Bobby Tench from The Jeff Beck Group.

( netflix ) Documents the drive from Algeria to Nigeria through the Sahara and is filled with an hour of jamming with Fela Kuti.

Kravitz's other musical influences at the time included Fela Kuti, Bill Withers, Marvin Gaye and Miles Davis ; John Lennon and Bob Marley proved later to be influential as well.

The former was released in 2002 by the Red Hot Organization on MCA / Universal Records as a compilation album that paid tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.

D ' Angelo performed on a remake of the Fela Kuti classic " Water No Get Enemy " with fellow contemporary R & B artists Macy Gray, the Soultronics, Nile Rodgers, Roy Hargrove, and Fela Kuti's son Femi Kuti.

* Fela Kuti in his first band, Koola Lobitos

Fela Kuti began performing in 1961, but did not start playing in his distinctive Afrobeat style until his exposure to Sierra Leonean Afro-soul singer Geraldo Pino in 1963.

Fela Kuti and his Afrobeat followers were among the most famous of the musicians considered world music.

In 1980, Ayers released Music Of Many Colors with the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.

Nigerian Afrobeat singer, musician, and bandleader Fela Kuti typically featured two baritone saxophone players in his band.

Smooth jazz saxophonists Kenny G, Jay Beckenstein, Dave Koz, Grover Washington, Jr .; and Nigerian Afrobeat singer, Fela Kuti.

The album was among several experimental post-punk recordings directly inspired by the Afrobeat of bandleader Fela Kuti.

Babatunde Odufuwa ( of Oke-Aye in Ijebu North East Local Government, Off Senbora ), Chairman of Lagos City Polytechnic, Ikeja and corporate giants like Afeez Ajibowu, the Nigeria Sales Director of the American Multinational SC Johnson, Ayo Komolafe, the Director, Membership services of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria and Kunle Adebiyi, Sales Director, Visafone Nigeria, Peter Olawale Odetayo, Artist-CEO Artwithinme Media Concept, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti ( Afrobeat Creator, Music Legend, Political activist ) Rtd Rear-Admiral Adebimpe Adewunmi ( Nigerian Navy ) among others

* Tony Allen ( musician ) ( born 1940 ), drummer with Fela Kuti and one of the founders of Afrobeat

He is currently writing his autobiography " Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat " with author / musician Michael E. Veal, who has previously written a comprehensive biography of Fela Kuti.

Fela once stated that, " without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat.

Although, it is true that music genres like the highlife played by musicians like Rex Lawson, Segun Bucknor, Bobby Benson, etc., Fela Kuti's Afrobeat and King Sunny Adé's juju are all Yoruba adaptations of foreign music.

In 2002, dead prez contributed to Red Hot + Riot, a compilation album created by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti.

This album saw Common exploring themes ( musically and lyrically ), which were uncommon for a Hip hop record, as he does on the song " Time Travelin ' ( A Tribute To Fela )"; a homage to Nigerian music legend, and political activist Fela Kuti.

Nigeria's musical output has achieved international acclaim not only in the fields of folk and popular music, but also Western art music written by composers such as Fela Sowande.

In the early to mid 1970s, three of the biggest names in Nigerian music history were at their peak: Fela Kuti, Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Adé, while the end of that decade saw the start of Yo-pop and Nigerian reggae.

– Book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, music and lyrics by Fela Kuti

In 2002, she appeared on the Red Hot Organization's Red Hot and Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to the music of fellow Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti.

The intro theme music was Akinla, the final movement of the African Suite by Nigerian composer Fela Sowande.

In 2002, Mix Master Mike contributed two tracks to Red Hot + Riot, a compilation CD created by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, that raised money for various charities devoted to raising AIDS awareness and fighting the disease and featured many other contemporary hip-hop and R & B artists.

He persuaded Ivan Julian and the band to explore sounds outside of the boundaries of American pop music, most notably Fela Kuti.