Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

there are over 40 working afrobeat big bands including Antibalas, Chicago Afrobeat Project, Chopteeth, Femi Kuti, and Seun Kuti.

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

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.

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

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.

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

The ever-masked and enigmatic Lágbájá became one of the standard-bearers of the new wave of Afrobeat, especially after his 1996 LP C ' est Une African Thing.

), cellist Oliver Krauss ( Tom McRae, David Gray, Paul Weller, Beth Orton ), and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Bogie of Brooklyn's world renowned Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.

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

Some lesser known artists like Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, Zirafa and Spinnerty, d-Lo, Bozak, Melodic Scribes, DJ Librarian, UC Hiphop, Saint Syke, and Zmick are also worthy of note on simply a local scale.

seeing an aborigine today is a difficult thing.

I consider it to be my job to expose the public to what is being written today ''.

Nostalgic Yankee readers of Erskine Caldwell are today informed by proud Georgians that Tobacco Road is buried beneath a four-lane super highway, over which travel each day suburbanite businessmen more concerned with the Dow-Jones average than with the cotton crop.

I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

In homely terms whose timeliness is startling today, he thus declared his own right to secede.

It will readily be seen that in this suggested network ( not materially different from some of the networks in vogue today ) greater emphasis on monitoring is implied than is usually put into practice.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

He is a utopian with a stake in tomorrow and he is a vulnerable human made captive by the circumstances of today.

The Agreeable Autocracies is an attempt to explore some of the institutions which both reflect and determine the character of the free society today.

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

The road to a guaranteed-neutral, coup-proof Laos is today almost as difficult as warfare on that nation's terrain.

It is a war to stay out of today, especially in view of the fact that President Ngo Dinh Diem apparently does not want United States troops.

But far from being concerned about whether or not Russia will have achieved Utopia by 1980, the world is watching Moscow today primarily for clues as to whether or not there will be nuclear Armageddon in the immediate future.

The 350th anniversary of the King James Bible is being celebrated simultaneously with the publishing today of the New Testament, the first part of the New English Bible, undertaken as a new translation of the Scriptures into contemporary English.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

It is high time the United States began to realize that the God-given rights of men set forth in that document are applicable today to Katanga.

There is a trend today to bemoan the fact that Americans are too `` soft ''.

I did so because I agree with so many here today, that he is the beloved Speaker of all the people of the United States.

My sincere wish is that he continues to add to this record he sets here today.