Afrobeat

MILO MILES: By now, a fairly wide swatch of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.

Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat 2010

MILO MILES: By now, a fairly wide swatch of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.

Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat 2010

MILO MILES: By now, a fairly wide swatch of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.

Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat 2010

Best known for his fusion style of music known as Afrobeat, not many people know about him, but that may soon change as Focus Features is developing a biopic about him.

Today on Screenhead.com 2009

Many consider him the father of Afrobeat, that is the combination of Nigerian high-life and Yoruba rhythms with funk, soul and jazz.

CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2004 2004

The timespan of the releases is 1969 - 1974, the era during which Fela first created the sound he was to call Afrobeat, a music he always contended was a modern form of danceable,

Day in Rock Report 2010

The timespan of the releases is 1969 - 1974, the era during which Fela first created the sound he was to call Afrobeat, a music he always contended was a modern form of danceable,

Day in Rock Report 2010

Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer

NPR Topics: News 2010

The influential groove, termed Afrobeat, synthesized pan-African musical styles like no artist before since James Brown, heating a funk and blues bottom with rock repetition and variegation with jazz horns and swing cutting it into impassioned ribbons.

LAS magazine | music, media, art, culture, life, everything 2010

Best known for his fusion style of music known as Afrobeat, not many people know about him, but that may soon change as Focus Features is developing a biopic about him.

Screenhead 2009