GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us ...

Considering the worldwide influence that the late Fela Kuti's Afrobeat music has had on everyone from the Talking Heads to ...

Seun Kuti will bring his seven-piece Afrobeat band from Nigeria to the Arts Campus at Willits. Kuti, is the youngest son of ...

Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeats singer-songwriter, Gregory Bortey Newman, known by his stage name King Promise, has ...

Wretch 32's "Home?" album blends Afrobeat and grime with raw reflections on identity, migration and what it means to belong.

GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us from ...

The Afrobeat musician Femi Kuti has a new album out. It's called "Journey Through Life." (SOUNDBITE OF FEMI KUTI SONG, "POLITICS DON EXPOSE THEM") GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz ...

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