Afrobeat
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Afrobeat is a West African music genre, fusing influences from Yoruba and Ghanaian music with American funk, jazz, and soul influences. With a focus on chanted vocals, complex intersecting rhythms, an
Seun Kuti during an Afrobeat performance
Fela Kuti
Tony Allen (musician)
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Tony Oladipo Allen was a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Africa '70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the founders of the Afr
Afrobeat
…and dancehall. The two genres, though often conflated, are not the same. Afrobeat evolved in Nigeria in the late 1960s by Fela Kuti, who, with drummer Tony Allen, experimented with different contemporary music of that time. Afrobeat was influenced by a combination of different genres, such as highlife, fuji, and…
Allen at Oslo Jazzfestival 2015
Allen at the Eurockéennes, 2007
Allen in 1988