• The Best Best of Fela Kuti is a 2-CD compilation album by Nigerian Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti, released in 1999 by MCA Records. It was issued in the United...
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    Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian musician and political activist. He is...
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  • This is a discography for Fela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights...
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  • Fela! is a jukebox musical with a book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, based on music and lyrics by the late Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, with additional...
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    pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Femi Kuti began his...
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    included the musician Fela Kuti (born Olufela Ransome-Kuti), doctor and activist Beko Ransome-Kuti, and health minister Olikoye Ransome-Kuti. Frances...
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    Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), popularly known Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, singer and the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun...
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  • Fela's London Scene is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, recorded in England in 1971 and originally...
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  • Zombie (album) (category Fela Kuti albums)
    musician Fela Kuti. It was released in Nigeria by Coconut Records in 1976, and in the United Kingdom by Creole Records in 1977. The album criticised the Nigerian...
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    Afrobeat (redirect from History of Afrobeat)
    intersecting rhythms, and percussion, the style was pioneered in the 1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who popularised it both within...
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  • Sorrow Tears and Blood (category Fela Kuti albums)
    multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. It was recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Nigerian Kalakuta label. Over a midtempo groove, and interspersed with Kuti's relaxed...
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  • Ransome-Kuti is a 2024 biopic about the life and times of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a renowned Nigerian activist and mother of afrobeat Legend, Fela Kuti. The film...
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  • No Agreement (category Fela Kuti albums)
    multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. It was recorded in 1977 and originally released on the Nigerian Decca label. AllMusic stated: "No Agreement follows the Afro-beat...
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  • Confusion (album) (category Fela Kuti albums)
    Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti and his Africa 70 band. It was arranged, composed, and produced by Kuti, who recorded the album after choosing to emphasize...
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    Sahr Ngaujah (category American emigrants to the Netherlands)
    most of his early career working in experimental theater in Amsterdam. He made his breakthrough for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Fela Kuti in...
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  • 12-track body of work with a handful of features and tributes to the likes of Fela Kuti as well as to the hallmarks of hip-hop." Mr. Wavvy of Cult MTL offered...
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    part of a double record titled Legacy+ alongside his father, Femi Kuti. The album was produced by Sodi Marciszewer who had worked with Fela Kuti in the past...
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    as Fela Kuti. David Byrne's vocals were inspired by preachers delivering sermons, with lyrics addressing existential crisis and the unconscious. The music...
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  • Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove (1998) Red Hot + Indigo (2000) Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti (2002) Dark Was the Night (2009) Red...
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  • Kevin Mambo (category USC School of Dramatic Arts alumni)
    him two Daytime Emmys and for his role as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti in the Broadway production of the musical Fela! Kevin Mambo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe...
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    Ginger Baker (category Fela Kuti)
    with Fela Kuti, in pursuit of his long-time interest in African music. Among Baker's other collaborations are his work with Gary Moore, Masters of Reality...
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    Bolanle Austen-Peters (category Alumni of the London School of Economics)
    Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, and the women that were an integral part of his band. It was produced and created with the support of Fela Kuti’s estate. It was...
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  • produced by Luiza Botelho Almeida. The film was influenced by Fela Kuti, an Afrobeat pioneer and activist from Nigeria. The film received positive reviews...
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    of his father, Fela, Femi Kuti garnered a large fan base that enabled him to tour across Europe. Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti followed their father Fela Kuti...
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  • The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's...
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  • the film is based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Uzodinma Iweala, the book itself being named after a Fela Kuti album. It was screened in the main...
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    Amerigo Gazaway (category American people of Brazilian descent)
    "Finding Fela Archives: The Best Fela Kuti Mashups". OkayAfrica. "Interview: Amerigo Gazaway Breathes New Life Into Your Favorite Classics". The Source...
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  • ranked L.I.F.E 10th on its list of the 12th Best Albums of 2013. The album's music draws heavily from the music of Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade and Bob Marley...
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    Mix Master Mike (category Musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area)
    a compilation CD created by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, that raised money for various...
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    and Spirit of Fela Kuti, a compilation CD released by the Red Hot Organization in tribute to the music and work of Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, that raised...
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