Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

Afrobeat today is often mixed with other genres, such as hip hop, makossa, gospel, yahoozee and galala.

Afrobeat is a style most closely associated with Nigeria, though practitioners and fans are found throughout West Africa, and Afrobeat recordings are a prominent part of the world music category found throughout the developed world.

Although Kuti is often credited as the only pioneer of Afrobeat, other musicians such as Orlando Julius Ekemode were also prominent in the early Afrobeat scene, where they combined highlife, jazz and funk.

Reflections BYG is a beautiful fresh voice rocking the Zouk floor with her first single Ng ' ume which means Smile, was a big hit in just a few days of its release .. She has an amazing strong voice for the popular Jazz as well as Afrobeat and Hip Hop ; De-vine singing R & B and Zouk ; Nyaruach on the Afro-beat and pop ; Queen Zee is known for her rap music ..

Reflections BYG is a beautiful fresh voice rocking the Zouk floor with her first single Ng ' ume which means Smile, was a big hit in just a few days of its release .. She has an amazing strong voice for the popular Jazz as well as Afrobeat and Hip Hop ; De-vine singing R & B and Zouk ; Queen Zee is known for her rap music ..

Buju Bantuan aka Katjoko ( not to be confused with Jamaica's Buju Banton ), the late La Chox and Kamasutra are one of the youngest reggae artist, Faizel Mc the king of th jungle, being a part of the kwiku style, most of his love is based on this category Afrobeat.

Afro-juju is a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of Jùjú music and Afrobeat.

*" Music is Bulletproof: Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra stirs some political hotsauce into their musical jambalaya " CBC Radio 3 Live Concert Session

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.

Recorded live in Lagos, with a full-sized Afrobeat band, Lagos No Shaking ( Lagos is OK ), signifies Allen's return to roots Afrobeat after forays into avant-garde electronica hybrids.

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.

Afro rock is ( an offshoot of Afrobeat ) is a popular dance music pioneered in the late 1960s and early 1970s by such groups as Monomono, Osibisa and Alhaji K. Frimpong.

Afro-juju was a combination of Afrobeat and fuji, and it ignited such fervor among Shina's fans that the phenomenon was dubbed " Shinamania ".

Samputu sings in 6 languages ( Rwanda, Swahili, Lingala, Ganda, French and English ), and in styles ranging from soukous, rhumba, vodou and reggae, to traditional Rwandan 5 / 8, Afrobeat, pygmy, and gospel.

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.

Afrobeat originated from the southern part of Nigeria in the 1960s where Kuti experimented with many different forms of contemporary music of the time.

Some Afrobeat influence can also be found in the music of Vampire Weekend and Paul Simon.

The result was a profusion of new styles in the last few decades of the 20th century, including waka music, Yo-pop and Afrobeat.

In the 1980s, Afrobeat became affiliated with the burgeoning genre of world music.

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

Western rock and pop music, as well as Afrobeat, soukous and other genres have become popular nation-wide.

" BobFest " occurs during the first weekend in November and features Reggae, Dancehall, Afrobeat, and World music.

The neighborhood has also attracted a respectable funk, soul and worldbeat music scene spearheaded by labels such as Daptone and Truth & Soul Records – and fronted by acts such as the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra and Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.

* Fela Anikulapo Kuti: The founder of Afrobeat music, and political / human rights activist.

Kuti was a charismatic multi-instrumentalist musician and composer and human rights activist, famed for being the pioneer of Afrobeat music as well as a controversial figure, due to his unusual lifestyle and apparent drug use.

* Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive

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.

The event takes place in the museum, drawing approximately 800 people, and includes live musical acts playing Afrobeat music, artists, performers and other live entertainment.

It contributed not only to the development of jazz and salsa, but also to the Argentinian tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, Dominican Bachata and Merengue, Colombian Cumbia and Spanish Nuevo flamenco.

By the end of the ' 80s and early ' 90s, Afrobeat had diversified by taking in new influences from jazz and rock and roll.

It was the original basis of salsa and contributed not only to the development of jazz, but also to Argentinian tango, Ghanaian high-life, West African Afrobeat, and Spanish nuevo flamenco.

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

Lucas was described by Pitchfork as " an outsize global-a-go-go mélange of unceasing polyrhythms, Afrobeat guitars, free jazz, and Timbaland's approach to kitchen-sink percussion.

Some of Worldbeat's most successfully integrated folk elements include Celtic, Afrobeat, Mbaqanga, qawwali, highlife, rai, raga, samba, flamenco and tango.

In a departure from the industrial sounds of the Beatnigs and Disposable Heroes, and the minimalism of early Spearhead, Franti's affirming lyrics are now set to swelling rock chords, while keeping a world-wise groove nodding towards reggae, dancehall, bossa nova, Afrobeat, and funk.

Following World War II, electric instruments began to be included, and pioneering musicians like Ernest Olatunde Thomas, aka, Tunde Nightingale, Fatai Rolling-Dollar, I. K. Dairo, Dele Ojo, Ayinde Bakare, Adeolu Akinsanya, King Sunny Adé, and Ebenezer Obey made the genre the most popular in Nigeria, incorporating new influences like funk, reggae and Afrobeat and creating new subgenres like yo-pop.

Other styles of American popular music have also had a formative effect internationally, including funk, the basis for West African Afrobeat, R & B, a major source for Jamaican reggae, and rock, which has profoundly influenced most every genre of popular music worldwide.

Afrobeat features chants, call-and-response vocals, and complex, interacting rhythms.

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

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

Post-Fela, Allen developed a hybrid sound, deconstructing & fusing Afrobeat with electronica, dub, R & B, and rap.