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Biography and more of the Nigerian Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti

Biography

Fela Kuti is a best known as a pioneer of his genre, Afrobeat, which fuses traditional Yoruba music and Afro his Cuban music with funk and jazz. Being a political activist and pan-Africanist, through music he was able to constantly pass his message and own view of the Nigerian and African political affairs as well as colonialism and its influence on Nigerians and the civilians. He is son to the notable women human right colonial activist, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. She was a women's activist dissident within the anti-colonial development; his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a school principal and an Anglican minister, who was also the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers.

Songs

Combining components of conventional highlife and jazz, Fela named his heightening musical cross breed style "Afro-beat," incompletely as evaluate of African entertainers whom he felt had turned their backs on their African melodic roots in arrange to imitate current American pop music patterns.

Performances

Usually, he refer to his stage act as Underground Spiritual Game. Frequently, Fela's concerts included female vocalists and artists, afterward named as "Rulers." The Rulers were ladies who made a different impact to the popularization of his music.

They were dressed colorfully and wore cosmetics all over their bodies through which their visual imaginations are communicated. The vocalists of the gather played a reinforcement part for Fela, ordinarily reverberating his words or murmuring along, whereas the artists would put on a execution of suggestive way.

The father of Afro-beat, Fela performing in Egypt.

Fela playing Tennis Fela and his dancers

The Kalakuta Republic

In 1974 Kuti was jailed on suspicion of being in possession of weed. Kalakuta Republic title was determined from the spell Fela went through during the jail term.

Kalakuta republic was a recording studio and commune in 1970. Due to the corruption of the then military government, Fela felt he couldn't be portion of such and announced the Kalakuta Republic an imperial state and independent of Nigeria.