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Davido marked his wife Chioma Adeleke’s 30th birthday with a lavish celebration attended by close friends and family The Afrobeat star surprised her with a brand new Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon during the ...
Seun Kuti will bring his seven-piece Afrobeat band from Nigeria to the Arts Campus at Willits. Kuti, is the youngest son of ...
Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to ...
Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 will play a free show on Saturday, May 3, at ArtsPark at Young Circle in downtown Hollywood.
Some kids bond with their parents through sport, or perhaps a hobby. Seun Kuti bonded with his dad through music. Not just listening to certain bands, or collecting records, but playing and ...
Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeats singer-songwriter, Gregory Bortey Newman, known by his stage name King Promise, has ...
GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us from ...
Although it feels like ages since Afrobeat champions Bengali 600 have been on the scene, it’s not like they’ve just been sitting around on their asses. Nope, nuh-uh. This weekend, the Orlando ...
Wretch 32's "Home?" album blends Afrobeat and grime with raw reflections on identity, migration and what it means to belong.
Femi's own music awards are scattered around, recognition for his determination to keep fighting the good fight his Afrobeat legend father was known for -- calling out corruption and injustice in ...
Featuring James Brown's dynamism, the extraterrestrial funk of George Clinton's Parliament Funkadelic, transformed girl group Labelle, and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat, the story also traces funk's ...