As New Orleans heads into the Carnival season, local venues provide the soundtrack for the season.

Renowned Afrobeat family of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti recently in Lagos, launched the biography of their mother, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti titled: “Mrs Kuti” (a memoir) to the world. The book is a ...

But life with Fela was anything but quiet,” Yeni reflected. Femi Kuti, the couple’s first son, added that the book sheds light on Fela’s relentless pursuit of justice and his revolutionary ...

Kuti is a musician who took over the leadership of his father, late Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Egypt 80 at age 14 after his death in 1997. Kuti’s debut album was Seun Kuti & Fela’s Egypt 80 ...

Today, the Recording Academy carries on its tradition of enshrining the most impactful and enduring recordings in the history of American music with its 2025 inductees to the Grammy Hall of Fame ...

From a young age, I was playing the trumpet in school ... I grew up listening to a lot of Fela Kuti, and many other people like Wizkid. When Wizkid was around, I was still in school.

Here's a full list of the 13 recordings that were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2025, including debut albums by ...

For nearly half an hour, the music folded and unfolded through swoops of seamless, revelatory transitions: scraping strings, trumpet that ... Jazz Festival), and Fela Kuti. And, of course, his ...

Veteran actors Fred Amata, Saheed Balogun, and Yeni Kuti, former dancer and daughter of afrobeats legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

Fela Durotoye has claimed that he rejected an opportunity to siphon N5bn in a fraudulent government deal, despite immense pressure from an official who claimed to be a pastor. Durotoye made the ...

Perhaps she learnt the robes from her father Benson Idonije, the manager of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. She has been ... he blew his trumpet and bragged about the efforts put into ...