Fela Kuti
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Other names: Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Olufela Olusegun Oludotuni
Job / Known for: Afrobeat pioneer and political dissident
Left traces: Afrobeat music and anti-colonial movement
Born
Date: 1938-10-15
Location: NG Abeokuta
Died
Date: 1997-08-02 (aged 59)
Resting place: NG Lagos
Death Cause: Kaposi's sarcoma
Family
Spouse: 27 wives at once, later divorced
Children: 7
Parent(s): Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti
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Music is the weapon of the future.
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Fela Kuti was a Nigerian musician and activist who launched a modern style of music called Afrobeat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with traditional Yoruba music. Kuti was the son of feminist and labour activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. As a youth he took lessons in piano and percussion before studying classical music at Trinity College London. While in London, he encountered various musical styles by playing piano in jazz and rock bands. Returning to Nigeria in the mid-1960s, he reconstituted Koola Lobitos, a band with which he had played in London. The Afrobeat sound emerged from that group’s experiments. Following his 1969 tour of the United States, where he was influenced by the politics of Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, and other militants, Kuti’s music became increasingly politicized. He exhorted social change in such songs as Zombie, Monkey Banana, Beasts of No Nation, and Upside Down. Fela (as he was popularly known) and his band, which was known variously as the Nigeria 70, Africa 70, and later the Egypt 80, performed for packed houses at the early-morning concerts that they staged at Fela’s often-raided nightclub in Lagos. The firebrand singer, who gyrated over the keyboard as he sang in English and Yoruba, struck a chord among the unemployed, disadvantaged, and oppressed. His politically charged songs, which decried oppression by Nigeria’s military government, prompted authorities to routinely raid his club, looking for reasons to jail him. Near there he also set up a communal compound, which he proclaimed the independent Kalakuta Republic. As head of the commune, he often provoked controversy and attracted attention by promoting indulgence in sex, polygamy (he married 27 women), and drugs, especially marijuana. A 1977 raid on the complex by Nigerian authorities resulted in his brief incarceration and the death of his mother the following year due to complications from a fall. He was jailed by the government of Muhammadu Buhari in 1984, but released after 20 months. He continued to record and perform through the 1980s and 1990s. Since his death in 1997, reissues and compilations of his music have been overseen by his son, Femi Kuti.
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