Those guys were sapping Fela of his Force, of his Music .’ So Tony moved on, once again in search of his own sound .’

* Tony Allen, drummer, played in Fela Kuti's band

According to his MySpace page, Tony Colman's influences include a large array of musicians, such as Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Led Zeppelin, and others.

The group has received guest visits from several musicians from Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 and Egypt 80 bands, including Tony Allen ( drums ), Femi Kuti ( alto sax ), Seun Kuti ( tenor sax ), Tunde Williams ( trumpet ), Oghene Kologbo ( guitar ), Nicolas Addey ( congas ), Dele Sosimi ( keyboards ), Ola Jagun ( drums / percussion ), and Jojo Kuo ( drums ) among others.

A particularly popular song from Politics was " La Ritournelle ", a string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen of Fela Kuti fame.

* 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.

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.

In 2010, Jones won the Tony Award for Best Choreography for his work in Fela !.

In 1964, Fela Ransome Kuti invited Allen to audition for a jazz-highlife band he was forming.

Allen recounts how Fela and he wrote in 1970, " Fela used to write out the parts for all the musicians in the band ( Africa ' 70 ).

Allen recorded over 30 albums with Fela and Africa ’ 70, arguably Fela's best works.

Fela did support Allen's three solo recordings: Jealousy (’ 75 ), Progress (‘ 77 ), No Accommodation For Lagos (’ 79 ), but by 1979, Allen chose to leave Africa ’ 70, taking many members with him.

In 2002, Allen appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot and Riot in tribute to Fela Kuti.

He would later also contribute to the Red Hot Organization's Fela Kuti tribute album, Red Hot and Riot in 2002.

Fela would ask what type of rhythm I wanted to play … You can tell a good drummer because we … have four limbs … and they are … playing different things … the patterns don ’ t just come from Yoruba … other parts of Nigeria and Africa.

Fela stood his ground, stating, that he would get the royalties for his songs.

Fela said he would not have marital relations with all of the women as the tabloids suggested, but had married them as they could not find employment after the recording studio had been burnt down.

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.

Fela: A worker for the Mirabal family who claims to be a fortune teller.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

* 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.

* In 1977, as a result of political backlash against his album Zombie Fela Kuti's mother was thrown from a window during a military raid on his compound, the Kalakuta Republic by 1, 000 Nigerian soldiers.

Tourist attractions include Oba's Palace, the Nigerian National Museum, Shrine of Fela, the beach resorts.

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

* Bill T. Jones ( choreographer )-Tony Award Winner for choreography in two musicals, " Spring Awakening " and " Fela ".

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.

In the 2010-2011 season, it presented Hamlet, Frankenstein and Fela !, as well as partnering to present productions of other companies: Complicite's A Disappearing Number and Donmar Warehouse's King Lear.

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.

Visiting Lagos, Nigeria, in 1976 for the Festival of African Culture ( FESTAC ), Gil met fellow musicians Fela Kuti and Stevie Wonder.

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.

They collaborated with fellow hip-hop artists Talib Kweli, Jorge Ben, and Bilal to remake the famous Fela Kuti song " Shuffering and Shmiling " for the album.

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.