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Fela Kuti

Photo: His master’s voice record company., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Release
1
Year
1973
Plays
22

Releases

Biography

Born: 15 October 1938, in Abeokuta, Nigeria.

Died: 2 August 1997, of AIDS and heart failure in Lagos, Nigeria.

He formed his first group Koola Lobitos in 1963. The large jazz, funk, and afrobeat collective underwent many changes in the following decades but the style remained the same thanks to Fela's vision and other key members such as drummer Tony Allen.

In 1969 after visiting America, Fela returned to Nigeria and opened club Afro Spot in Lagos also changing the group's name to Afrika 70.

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