WBGO's Doug Doyle chats with Newark Symphony Hall President and CEO Talia Young about FELA! The Concert and the NSH's ...

Nigeria's Afrobeat king Fela Kuti will this weekend be posthumously recognised by the Grammys with a Lifetime Achievement Award, becoming the first African artist to receive the distinction. After a ...

There are artists who make music, and there are artists who change the world. Fela Aníkúlápó Kuti belonged decisively to the latter. More than a musician, Fela was a political force, a philosopher of ...

Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician known as the King of Afrobeat. His legacy is celebrated every October at Felabration.

Fela was at his most prolific, having fully embraced the responsibility of anti-establishment hero. The musician was a ...

Vinyl Me, Please (VMP) today released The Best of the Black President, a hand-numbered 4×LP Fela Kuti box set first announced ...

From the late 1970s onward, Fela's lyrics became longer, more complex and ever more confrontational. Coffin For Head Of State, first released on Kalakuta in 1981, is an outstanding example. It is one ...

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The musical Fela! was a hit with audiences on Broadway, and now it's headed on the road; the show is kicking off a national tour in Washington, D.C. this month. Many critics ascribe a portion of the ...

In the late 1960s, Fela decided that he had no use for love songs or party tunes; he wanted to challenge unjust authority. By Jon Pareles Resistance is etched into Afrobeat, the music forged by the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after his death, the "father of Afrobeat" Fela Kuti has made history by becoming the first African to get a Lifetime ...