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.

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 ..

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.

She has an amazing strong voice for the popular Jazz as well as Afrobeat and Hip Hop ; De-vine Is a new songstress from the same county of Kajo Keji singing R & B and Zouk.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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