query: what instrument does fela kuti play?

title: Fela Kuti

text: was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement; his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, an Anglican minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. Fela is a first cousin to the Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, the first African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Fela attended Abeokuta Grammar School. Later he was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music, the trumpet being

title: Afrodisiac (Fela Kuti album)

text: Afrodisiac (Fela Kuti album) Afrodisiac is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, originally released on the Nigerian EMI label in 1973. The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars, commenting: "While it's true that Fela Kuti's albums from this period are pretty similar to each other, in their favor they're not boring. These four workouts, all sung in Nigerian [sic], are propulsive mixtures of funk and African music, avoiding the homogeneity of much funk and African records of later vintage, done with nonstop high energy. The interplay between horns, electric keyboards, drums, and Fela's exuberant

title: Fela Kuti

text: also played the trumpet, electric guitar, and took the occasional drum solo. Fela refused to perform songs again after he had already recorded them, which also hindered his popularity outside Africa. Fela was known for his showmanship, and his concerts were often quite outlandish and wild. He referred to his stage act as the "Underground" Spiritual Game. Fela attempted making a movie but lost all the materials to the fire that was set to his house by the military government in power. Kuti thought that art, and thus his own music, should have political meaning. As Fela's musical career developed,

title: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album)

text: head on a suited body. On the song, Kuti ponders why fellow Africans would wear so much clothing in the African heat: "I know what to wear but my friend don't know / I am not a gentleman like that! / I be Africa man original." He solos on his tenor saxophone over most of the song's nine-minute intro and switches to his electric piano during the vocal sections. Kuti had learned how to play after the departure of Igo Chico from his Afrika 70 band in 1973. "Gentleman" is followed by two jazzy compositions—"Fefe Naa Efe" and "Igbe". "Gentleman"

title: Femi Kuti

text: been nominated for a Grammy award four times in the world music category in 2003, 2010, 2012 and 2013 but has never won. On 19 December 2014 a management deal between Chocolate City Music Group and Femi Kuti was reached. The news was announced via the Chocolate City Music official instagram account, as well as Audu Maikori social media accounts. Femi, the son of Afrobeat singer and political activist Fela Kuti, inherited his father's zeal for both music and activism. He started playing the saxophone and keyboard with his father's band when he was 16 and stepped into the spotlight,

title: Fela Kuti

text: records frequently had one 30-minute track per side. Typically there is an "Instrumental Introduction" jam part of the song, perhaps 10–15 minutes long, before Fela starts singing the "main" part of the song, featuring his lyrics and singing, in which the song continues for another 10–15 minutes. Therefore, on some recordings one may see his songs divided into two parts, Part 1 (instrumental) followed by the rest, Part 2. His songs were mostly sung in Nigerian pidgin English, although he also performed a few songs in the Yoruba language. Fela's main instruments were the saxophone and the keyboards, but he

title: Fela Kuti

text: created, which is a complex fusion of jazz, funk, Ghanaian/Nigerian highlife, psychedelic rock and traditional West African chants and rhythms. Afrobeat also borrows heavily from the native "tinker pan". The importance of the input of Tony Allen (Fela's drummer of twenty years) in the creation of Afrobeat. Fela once stated that "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat". Afrobeat is characterized by a fairly large band with many instruments, vocals and a musical structure featuring jazzy, funky horn sections. A riff-based "endless groove" is used, in which a base rhythm of drums, shekere, muted West African-style guitar and melodic

title: Femi Kuti

text: and grew up in the former Nigerian capital, Lagos. His mother soon left his father, taking Femi to live with her. In 1977, however, Femi chose to move in with his father. Femi started playing the saxophone at age 15 and he eventually became a member of his father's band. Like his father, Femi has commitment to social and political causes throughout his career. Femi created his own band "Positive Force" in the late 1980s with Dele Sosimi (Gbedu Resurrection), former keyboard player of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. His international career began in 1988 when he was invited by the French

title: Fela Kuti

text: bass guitar riffs are repeated throughout the song. Commonly, interlocking melodic riffs and rhythms are introduced one by one, building the groove bit-by-bit and layer-by-layer. The horn section then becomes prominent, introducing other riffs and main melodic themes. Fela's band was notable for featuring two baritone saxophones, whereas most groups were using only one of this instrument. This is a common technique in African and African-influenced musical styles and can be seen in funk and hip hop. Fela's bands at times even performed with two bassists at the same time both playing interlocking melodies and rhythms. There were always two

title: Igo Chico

text: his performance in the tune "Monday Morning In Lagos" from the album "He Miss Road". Another definitive solo appears in "It's No Possible (Ko Se Se)" from the same album. Igo Chico Igo Chico (birth date unavailable) played tenor saxophone for Fela Kuti's afrobeat entourage Africa '70 during its formative period in the early-1970s. He eventually left the band after a dispute with Kuti, who took up tenor saxophone himself to replace him. Chico's swelling, lyrical, palm-wine-infused style greatly contrasted with Fela Kuti's more punctuated, machine-gun-like style on the instrument. His solos throughout the band's early-1970s recordings are distinguishable by

title: Igo Chico

text: Igo Chico Igo Chico (birth date unavailable) played tenor saxophone for Fela Kuti's afrobeat entourage Africa '70 during its formative period in the early-1970s. He eventually left the band after a dispute with Kuti, who took up tenor saxophone himself to replace him. Chico's swelling, lyrical, palm-wine-infused style greatly contrasted with Fela Kuti's more punctuated, machine-gun-like style on the instrument. His solos throughout the band's early-1970s recordings are distinguishable by those properties and by his growly timbre, though the performance credits are not well documented in the album notes to the digital CD re-releases. A characteristic Chico tenor solo is

title: Fela Kuti

text: Fela Kuti Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers." Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, the modern-day capital of Ogun State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, then a city in the British Colony of Nigeria into an upper-middle-class family. His mother, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti,

title: Fela Kuti

text: has not eventuated. Fela Kuti Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), also professionally known as Fela Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre and human rights activist. At the height of his popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers." Fela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, the modern-day capital of Ogun State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, then a city in the British Colony of Nigeria into an upper-middle-class family. His mother,

title: Fela Kuti

text: Fela Kuti is remembered as an influential icon who was brave enough to boldly voice his opinions on matters that affected the nation through his music. An annual festival "Felabration" held each year to celebrate the life of this music legend and his birthday. The full-length documentary film "Finding Fela", directed by Alex Gibney, received its premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. In addition, a movie by Focus Features, directed by Steve McQueen and written by Biyi Bandele, about the life of Fela Kuti was rumoured to be in production 2010, with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead role, but

title: Afrodisiac (Fela Kuti album)

text: vocals gives this a jazz character, without sacrificing the earthiness that makes it danceable as well". All compositions by Fela Kuti. Afrodisiac (Fela Kuti album) Afrodisiac is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, originally released on the Nigerian EMI label in 1973. The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars, commenting: "While it's true that Fela Kuti's albums from this period are pretty similar to each other, in their favor they're not boring. These four workouts, all sung in Nigerian [sic], are propulsive mixtures of funk and African music, avoiding the homogeneity of much funk

title: The Best Best of Fela Kuti

text: liked his songs to jam on out to a half-hour or more. "Pitchfork" critic Mike Powell wrote that, although it does not have ""all" of Fela's best material", the album "isn't just a good place for someone starting out, it's probably the only Fela album many will need to own." In a less enthusiastic review, Will Hermes of "Rolling Stone" magazine said that the music is "killer", but criticized the lack of recording info in the liner notes: "The music speaks for itself, but presidential history deserves better." The Best Best of Fela Kuti The Best Best of Fela Kuti

title: Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album)

text: of the physical torture that Kuti and his company had endured". "All compositions by Fela Kuti" Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album) Unknown Soldier is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti recorded in 1979 and originally released on the Nigerian Skylark label. The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "An epic 31-minute tribute to his fallen mother, "Unknown Soldier" is one of the most ambitious recordings of Kuti's career which describes in frightening detail the events that transpired on the eve of the Kalakuta raid... Kuti gives a tortured, powerful performance of some of

title: Fela Kuti

text: evidence songs like "Mattress". In a more complex example, he mocks the aspiration of African women to European standards of ladyhood while extolling the values of the market woman in his song "Lady". In accordance with his beliefs, Fela Kuti married multiple women at the same time in 1978. Fela Kuti was also an outspoken critic of the United States. At a meeting during his 1981 Amsterdam tour, he "complained about the psychological warfare that American organizations like ITT and the CIA waged against developing nations in terms of language". He did not see why the terms 'Third World, "undeveloped"

title: The Best Best of Fela Kuti

text: The Best Best of Fela Kuti The Best Best of Fela Kuti is a compilation album by Nigerian Afrobeat artist Fela Kuti, released in 1999 by MCA Records. It was issued in the United States in 2000 as part of a reissue series of Kuti's albums. The album was reissued as The Best of the Black President in 2009 by Knitting Factory Records and received universal acclaim from music critics. In a contemporary review for "The Village Voice", music critic Robert Christgau said that "The Best Best of Fela Kuti" is the essential album from Kuti and "a masterful piece

title: Fela Kuti

text: Fela suffered and may have possibly died from Kaposi's Sarcoma, which is a symptom of HIV/AIDS infection. However, there are no known photos of Kuti with telltale lesions; moreover, Kuti was honored with a lying-in-state in which his remains were encased in a five-sided glass coffin for full public viewing. More than one million people attended Fela's funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. The New Afrika Shrine has opened since Fela's death in a different section of Lagos under the supervision of his son Femi. The musical style of Fela is called Afrobeat, a style he largely

title: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album)

text: album's liner notes. Gentleman (Fela Kuti album) Gentleman is a 1973 studio album by Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. It was written and produced by Kuti and recorded with his Africa 70 band. The cover artwork's depiction of a monkey's head superimposed on a suited body is a reference to the album's title track, which Kuti composed as a commentary on the colonial mentality of Africans who adhered to European customs and clothing. The album's title track is Kuti's commentary on the colonial mentality of Africans who adhere to European customs and clothing, as referenced by the cover artwork's collage

title: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album)

text: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album) Gentleman is a 1973 studio album by Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. It was written and produced by Kuti and recorded with his Africa 70 band. The cover artwork's depiction of a monkey's head superimposed on a suited body is a reference to the album's title track, which Kuti composed as a commentary on the colonial mentality of Africans who adhered to European customs and clothing. The album's title track is Kuti's commentary on the colonial mentality of Africans who adhere to European customs and clothing, as referenced by the cover artwork's collage of a monkey's

title: Fela Kuti

text: Records began the process of re-releasing the 45 titles that Universal Music controls, starting with yet another re-release of the compilation "The Best of the Black President" in the USA. The rest were expected to be released in 2010. "Fela Son of Kuti: The Fall of Kalakuta" is a stage play written by Onyekaba Cornel Best in 2010. It has had successful acclaims in 2010 as part of that year's Felabration celebration and returned in 2014 at the National Theatre and Freedom Park in Lagos. The play deals with events in a hideout a day after the fall of Kalakuta.

title: Live! (Fela Kuti album)

text: 16-minute drum duet between Baker and Africa 70s drummer Tony Allen recorded at the 1978 Berlin Jazz Festival. The album is on Rolling Stone's list of the 50 greatest live albums of all time. All songs by Fela Ransome-Kuti, except where noted. Bonus track : Live! (Fela Kuti album) Live! is an album recorded in 1971 by Fela Kuti's band Africa 70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker on two songs. It was released in 1971 by EMI in Africa and Europe and by Capitol/EMI in the United States and Canada. It was reissued on CD by

title: Fela Kuti

text: a new musical direction. That was when Kuti first called his music Afrobeat. In 1969, Fela took the band to the United States where they spent 10 months in Los Angeles. While there, Fela discovered the Black Power movement through Sandra Smith (now Sandra Izsadore), a partisan of the Black Panther Party. The experience would heavily influence his music and political views. He renamed the band Nigeria '70. Soon afterwards, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was tipped off by a promoter that Fela and his band were in the US without work permits. The band performed a quick recording session

title: Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album)

text: Unknown Soldier (Fela Kuti album) Unknown Soldier is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti recorded in 1979 and originally released on the Nigerian Skylark label. The Allmusic review awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: "An epic 31-minute tribute to his fallen mother, "Unknown Soldier" is one of the most ambitious recordings of Kuti's career which describes in frightening detail the events that transpired on the eve of the Kalakuta raid... Kuti gives a tortured, powerful performance of some of his most vivid and incendiary music -- music that was in many ways the ideological equal

title: Live! (Fela Kuti album)

text: Live! (Fela Kuti album) Live! is an album recorded in 1971 by Fela Kuti's band Africa 70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker on two songs. It was released in 1971 by EMI in Africa and Europe and by Capitol/EMI in the United States and Canada. It was reissued on CD by Celluloid in 1987 and was reissued on CD in remastered form by Barclay with a bonus track from 1978. Baker travelled with Kuti into Africa in a Land Rover to learn about the continent's rhythms. The bonus track on the Barclay CD reissue features a

title: Fela Kuti

text: his music could be enjoyed by individuals all over Africa, where the local languages spoken are very diverse and numerous. As popular as Fela's music had become in Nigeria and elsewhere, it was also very unpopular with the ruling government, and raids on the Kalakuta Republic were frequent. During 1972, Ginger Baker recorded "Stratavarious" with Fela appearing alongside Bobby Tench. Around this time, Kuti became even more involved in the Yoruba religion. In 1977, Fela and the Afrika '70 released the album "Zombie", a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian

title: Fela Kuti

text: going to bed with next. But in my own environment, my society is underdeveloped because of an alien system on our people. So there is no music enjoyment. There is nothing like love. There is something like struggle for people's existence." Fela Kuti was a political giant in Africa from the 70s until his death. Kuti criticized the corruption of Nigerian government officials and the mistreatment of Nigerian citizens. He spoke of colonialism as the root of the socio-economic and political problems that plagued the African people. Corruption was one of the worst, if not the worst, political problem facing

title: Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti

text: Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti Red Hot + Riot (a.k.a. "Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti") is the fourteenth in a series of music compilation projects produced by Paul Heck and John Carlinof the Red Hot Organization and Grammy-winning music producer Andres Levin (Music Has No Enemies) to be used as a fundraising tool for AIDS awareness efforts. The album, which takes inspiration from the late Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, was released by MCA on October 15, 2002 and featured more than three dozen artists on a score of

title: Fela Kuti

text: fact that Egyptian civilization belongs to the African. So that was the reason why I changed the name of my band to Egypt 80." Fela continued to record albums and tour the country. He further infuriated the political establishment by dropping the names of ITT Corporation vice-president Moshood Abiola and then General Olusegun Obasanjo at the end of a hot-selling 25-minute political screed entitled "I.T.T. (International Thief-Thief)". In 1984, Muhammadu Buhari's government, of which Kuti was a vocal opponent, jailed him on a charge of currency smuggling which Amnesty International and others denounced as politically motivated. Amnesty designated him a

title: Fela Kuti

text: Carlos Moore's 1982 book "Fela, Fela! This Bitch of a Life", began with a collaborative workshop between the Afrobeat band Antibalas and Tony award-winner Bill T. Jones. The show was a massive success, selling out shows during its run, and garnering much critical acclaim. On 22 November 2009, "Fela!" began a run on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Jim Lewis helped co-write the play (along with Bill T. Jones), and obtained producer backing from Jay-Z and Will Smith, among others. On 4 May 2010, "Fela!" was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical,

title: Fela Kuti

text: life, against a bad life. When you're listening to something that depicts having a better life, and you're not having a better life, it must have an effect on you." Fela's music and strong sense of sharing humanist and activist ideas grew from the environment he was in. In interview footage found in Faces of Africa on CGTN Africa, Fela talks about a comparison between English love songs and his own music. Fela States: "Yes, if you are in England the music can be an instrument of enjoyment. You can sing about love, you can sing about whom you are

title: Fela Kuti

text: his preferred instrument. While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife. In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children (Femi, Yeni, and Sola). He eventually married all 15 of his back up singers in one large marriage. In 1963, Fela moved back to the newly independent Federation of Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. He played for some time with Victor Olaiya and his All Stars. In 1967, he went to Ghana to think up

title: Fela!

text: Fela! Fela! is a 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 music by Aaron Johnson and Jordan McLean and additional lyrics by Jim Lewis. It is based on events in the life of groundbreaking Nigerian composer and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti. It portrays Kuti in the days when he was the target of 1,000 government soldiers assigned to end his public performances at the legendary Lagos nightclub The Shrine. The musical ran Off-Broadway for one month in 2008. It premiered on Broadway

title: Fela Kuti

text: exhibition in the New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, titled "The Black President Exhibition", debuted and featured concerts, symposia, films, and the works of 39 international artists. Thomas McCarthy's 2008 film "The Visitor" depicted a disconnected professor (Oscar nominee Richard Jenkins) who wanted to play the djembe. He learns from a young Syrian (Haaz Sleiman) who tells the professor he will never truly understand African music unless he listens to Fela. The film features clips of Fela's "Open and Close" and ""Je'nwi Temi" (Don't Gag Me)". In 2008, an off-Broadway production of Fela Kuti's life entitled "Fela!", inspired by

text: tracks. It is the fifth overall album in the series to focus chiefly on the work of a single composer or musician, following tributes honoring the works of Cole Porter ("Red Hot + Blue"), Antônio Carlos Jobim ("Red Hot + Rio"), George Gershwin ("") and Duke Ellington ("Red Hot + Indigo"). Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti Red Hot + Riot (a.k.a. "Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti") is the fourteenth in a series of music compilation projects produced by Paul Heck and John Carlinof the Red Hot Organization and

title: Finding Fela

text: Finding Fela Finding Fela is a 2014 documentary film by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, portraying and analysing the life of pioneering musician Fela Kuti. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, interwoven with extended scenes of the development of the New York musical "Fela!" and interviews with its director Bill T. Jones. "Finding Fela" received mixed reviews from critics. Geoffrey Berkshire of "Variety", said in his review: "This watchable but rather rote chronicle fails to find a compelling perspective

title: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album)

text: "off into the bush" with "two eight-minute Africanisms". He ranked the reissue number 80 on his dean's list for the Pazz & Jop critics' poll in 2000. In 2010, "Gentleman" was bundled again with "Confusion" by Knitting Factory Records as a part their extensive reissue of Kuti's 45-album discography. "Paste" magazine's Michaelangelo Matos gave it a score of "9.3/10" and cited it as the "essential twofer" in the reissue series. "All About Jazz" critic Chris May said that "Gentleman" and "Confusion" were "the first major masterpieces in Kuti's canon." All songs written by Fela Ransome-Kuti. Credits are adapted from the

title: Femi Kuti

text: Femi Kuti Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of afrobeat Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome Kuti. Femi's musical career started when he began playing in his father's band, Egypt 80. In 1986, Femi started his own band, Positive Force, and began establishing himself as an artist independent of his father's massive legacy. Femi was born in London to Fela and Remilekun (Remi) Ransome-Kuti (née Taylor; 1961-1985)

title: Yeni Kuti

text: Journalism. In 1986, she joined Femi's band as a singer and dancer after dropping her job as a fashion designer. She currently serves as a co-manager of the New Afrika Shrine alongside her brother Femi Kuti. Yeni Kuti Oluwayeni Anikulapo-Kuti (born May 22, 1961 in England, United Kingdom) is a dancer, singer and descendant of the Ransome-Kuti family. She pioneered the idea of Felabration, a music festival conceived to celebrate the life and contributions of her father Fela Kuti to the Nigerian society. Born in England, Yeni was born as the first child to afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and to

title: Fela Kuti

text: so too did his political influence throughout the world. In turn, the religious aspect of his musical approach grew. Fela was a part of an Afro-Centric consciousness movement that was founded on and delivered through his music. In an interview found in Hank Bordowitz's "Noise of the World", Fela states: "Music is supposed to have an effect. If you're playing music and people don't feel something, you're not doing shit. That's what African music is about. When you hear something, you must move. I want to move people to dance, but also to think. Music wants to dictate a better

title: Yeni Kuti

text: Yeni Kuti Oluwayeni Anikulapo-Kuti (born May 22, 1961 in England, United Kingdom) is a dancer, singer and descendant of the Ransome-Kuti family. She pioneered the idea of Felabration, a music festival conceived to celebrate the life and contributions of her father Fela Kuti to the Nigerian society. Born in England, Yeni was born as the first child to afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and to a British mother. She completed her basic and secondary education in Nigeria after leaving the United Kingdom at the age of two. She holds a diploma in journalism after she graduated from the Nigerian Institute of

title: Seun Kuti

text: Seun Kuti Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80. Seun and his brother Femi are the two commercially successful musical offspring of the late Nigerian afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti. Seun has one younger sister who used to sing in his band. At the age of nine Seun expressed the wish to sing to his father. A short while later Seun started performing with his father and the band. Since then, Seun has followed

title: Fela!

text: the day before General Olusegun Obasanjo was to retire from the Nigerian presidency for the first time. Kuti held Obasanjo responsible for his mother's death, and publicly defied the regime once again with his protest, leaving a symbolic coffin in front of Obasanjo's residence at the Dodan army barracks. The show concludes with symbolic coffins being laid on the stage to protest injustices suffered by the people of Nigeria and throughout Africa. Fela! Fela! is a musical with a book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis, based on music and lyrics by the late Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, with

title: Finding Fela

text: on Kuti's significant life and legacy." David Rooney of "The Hollywood Reporter" praised the film by describing it as "An absorbing if not quite definitive patchwork of the life and legacy of an unorthodox artist." Extracts from the film featured in the 2015 British Library exhibition "". Finding Fela Finding Fela is a 2014 documentary film by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, portraying and analysing the life of pioneering musician Fela Kuti. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 2014. A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela Kuti, interwoven

title: Fela Kuti

text: authorities that Fela was kidnapping the women. Later, he was to adopt a rotation system of keeping 12 simultaneous wives. The year was also marked by two notorious concerts, the first in Accra in which riots broke out during the song "Zombie", which led to Fela being banned from entering Ghana. The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Fela's musicians deserted him, due to rumours that Fela was planning to use the entire proceeds to fund his presidential campaign. Despite the massive setbacks, Fela was determined to come back. He formed his own political party,

title: Fela Kuti

text: Best Direction of a Musical for Bill T. Jones, Best Leading Actor in a Musical for Sahr Ngaujah, and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Lillias White. In 2011 the London production of "Fela!" was made into a film. On 11 June 2012, it was announced that "FELA!" would return to Broadway for 32 performances. On 18 August 2009, award-winning DJ J.Period released a free mixtape to the general public via his website that was a collaboration with Somali-born hip-hop artist K'naan paying tribute to Fela, Bob Marley and Bob Dylan, entitled "The Messengers". In October 2009, Knitting Factory

title: Fela Kuti

text: to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, and to write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier", referencing the official inquiry that claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier. Fela and his band took residence in Crossroads Hotel, as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. In 1978, Fela married 27 women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers. The marriage served not only to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic but also to protect Fela, and his wives, from false claims from

title: The Best Best of Fela Kuti

text: Best of Fela Kuti" the fourth best world music album of all time. The album's 2009 reissue by Knitting Factory Records received universal acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, it received an average score of 93, based on 5 reviews. Allmusic's Thom Jurek recommended the album even for listeners who own all of Kuti's previous music: "this is a killer mix and needs to be in the collection anyway." Michaelangelo Matos of "The A.V. Club" credited it for doing "the impossible by summing up a singular performer who

title: Yemisi Ransome-Kuti

text: Yemisi Ransome-Kuti Yemisi Ransome-Kuti is the only child of Azariah Olusegun Ransome-Kuti MBE (who was appointed Chief Pharmacist for the Federation of Nigeria in 1956 until retirement from federal Medical Service; in 1951, she was appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire by King George VI). She is also the granddaughter of the Late Rev. Canon Josiah Ransome-Kuti. Her aunt Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a foremost feminist in Nigeria who was also part of the delegation to negotiate independence for the country from the British. Ransome-Kuti is cousin to Fela Kuti, Olikoye Kuti, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Africa's

title: Fela Kuti

text: prisoner of conscience, and his case was also taken up by other human rights groups. After 20 months, he was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida. On his release he divorced his 12 remaining wives, saying that "marriage brings jealousy and selfishness". Once again, Fela continued to release albums with Egypt '80, made a number of successful tours of the United States and Europe and also continued to be politically active. In 1986, Fela performed in Giants Stadium in New Jersey as part of the Amnesty International A Conspiracy of Hope concert, sharing the bill with Bono, Carlos Santana,

title: Fela Kuti

text: which he called Movement of the People (MOP), in order to "clean up society like a mop". Apart from being a mass political party, MOP preached "Nkrumahism" and "Africanism." In 1979, he put himself forward for President in Nigeria's first elections for more than a decade, but his candidature was refused. At this time, Fela created a new band called Egypt '80 reflecting the fact that Egyptian civilization, knowledge, philosophy, mathematics, and religious systems are African and must be claimed as such. As Fela states in an interview, "Stressing the point that I have to make Africans aware of the

title: Fela Kuti

text: military. The album was a smash hit and infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic, during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother (whose house was located opposite the commune) was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries. The Kalakuta Republic was burned, and Fela's studio, instruments, and master tapes were destroyed. Fela claimed that he would have been killed had it not been for the intervention of a commanding officer as he was being beaten. Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin

title: Fela Kuti

text: in Los Angeles that would later be released as "The '69 Los Angeles Sessions". After Fela and his band returned to Nigeria, the group was renamed The Afrika '70, as lyrical themes changed from love to social issues. He formed the Kalakuta Republic, a commune, a recording studio, and a home for the many people connected to the band that he later declared independent from the Nigerian state. According to Lindsay Barrett, the name "Kalakuta" derived from the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta dungeon in India. Fela set up a nightclub in the Empire Hotel, first named the Afro-Spot and

title: Femi Kuti

text: is significant as it is the first concert that the brothers have performed together. On 15 May 2017 Femi Anikulapo Kuti was referred to in the Guinness world record under the catalog of a single note held on a sax in a method called Circular breathing. He set the records at 51 min 35 seconds. Femi Kuti Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of afrobeat Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women's rights activist and

title: Fela Kuti

text: his Lagos nightclub. Organized around a militantly Afrocentric rendering of history and the essence of black beauty, "Chief Priest Say" focused on the role of cultural hegemony in the continuing subjugation of Africans. Kuti addressed a number of topics, from explosive denunciations of the Nigerian Government's criminal behaviour; Islam and Christianity's exploitative nature, and evil multinational corporations; to deconstructions of Western medicine, Black Muslims, sex, pollution, and poverty. "Chief Priest Say" was cancelled, first by "Daily Times" then by "Punch". have speculated that the papers' editors were increasingly pressured to stop publication, including by violence. Kuti was outspoken; his songs

title: Fela Kuti

text: in 1984. On top of the jail time, the corrupt government would send soldiers to beat Kuti, his family and friends, and destroy wherever he lived and whatever instruments or recordings he had. In the 1970s, Kuti began to run outspoken political columns in the advertising space of daily and weekly newspapers such as "The Daily Times" and "The Punch", bypassing editorial censorship in Nigeria's predominantly state controlled media. Published throughout the 1970s and early 1980s under the title "Chief Priest Say", these columns were extensions of Kuti's famous Yabi Sessions—consciousness-raising word-sound rituals, with himself as chief priest, conducted at

title: Fela Kuti

text: military corruption in Nigeria was taking its toll, especially during the rise of Sani Abacha. Rumours were also spreading that he was suffering from an illness for which he was refusing treatment. On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, announced his younger brother's death a day earlier from complications related to AIDS. However, there has been no definitive proof that Kuti died from complications related to HIV/AIDS, and much skepticism surrounds this alleged cause of death and the sources that have popularized this claim. For example, it is widely claimed that

title: Beko Ransome-Kuti

text: Beko Ransome-Kuti Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti (2 August 1940 – 10 February 2006) was a Nigerian medical doctor known for his work as a human rights activist. Ransome-Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria. His mother Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti opposed indiscriminate taxation of women by the British colonial government. She helped negotiate Nigerian independence from Britain and is said to have been the first Nigerian woman to drive a car. His father Oladotun Ransome-Kuti was an Anglican priest and founded the Nigeria Union of Teachers. One of his brothers, Fela Kuti, was a musician and activist who founded Afrobeat; another, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, was

title: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

text: right to vote. She was described in 1947, by the "West African Pilot", as the "Lioness of Lisabi" for her leadership of the women of the Egba people on a campaign against their arbitrary taxation. That struggle led to the abdication of the high king Oba Ademola II in 1949. Kuti was the mother of the Nigerian activists Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a musician; Beko Ransome-Kuti, a doctor; and Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a doctor and health minister. She was also grandmother to musicians Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti. She is highly regarded in her native Nigeria for notable acts as an

title: Yemisi Ransome-Kuti

text: first Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka, whose mother was a Ransome-Kuti. She has four children: Segun Bucknor by her first husband, the late Naval Capt Frederick Oluwole Bucknor, and three by her second husband, Dr Kunle Soyemi - Bola Soyemi, Seun Soyemi and Eniola Soyemi. With Fela Kuti, Beko Kuti and Koye Kuti all dead, Yemisi is the head the Ransome-Kuti family. She is the recently retired chairman and founder of the Nigerian Network of Non-Governmental Organizations (NNNGO). The first organization of its kind in Nigeria to bring together civil society organization, it has worked since its formation 1992 to effect

title: Olikoye Ransome-Kuti

text: Olikoye Ransome-Kuti Olikoye Ransome-Kuti (30 December 1927 – 1 June 2003) was a paediatrician, activist, and health minister of Nigeria. Olikoye Ransome-Kuti was born in Ijebu Ode on 30 December 1927, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a prominent political campaigner and women's rights activist, and his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, a Protestant minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. His brother Fela would grow up to be a popular musician and a founder of Afrobeat, while another brother, Beko, would become an internationally known doctor and political

title: Fela!

text: issued announcing that "the matter of Mr Moore’s claims has been resolved to the mutual satisfaction of the parties". Moore had been suing for copyright infringement, and was alleged to have asked the courts to close the show. In 2010 a lawsuit was also served on the producers of the show when New York photographer Marilyn Nance sought damages claiming the unauthorized use of one of her images. "Fela!" takes place around 1977, at the height of Fela Kuti's influence as a composer and performer in Nigeria. Kuti was an originator of the Afrobeat sound, and the musical opens with

title: Seun Kuti

text: the political and social ethos of his father. After Fela had died in 1997, Seun, then only 14 years old, became the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school Seun had to choose between a career in music and one in African Football. His 2008 debut album, "Many Things", was produced by Martin Meissonnier, who had already produced two albums for his father. About three quarters of the current Egypt 80 line-up consists of musicians that not only played with Fela Kuti, but often were arrested and harassed alongside the founder of the Afrobeat movement. Live sets consist of

title: Seun Kuti

text: both new material and originals from Seun's father. Since during his lifetime, Fela Kuti had never performed any songs live on stage which he had recorded in the studio, this is the first chance for many long-time fans to enjoy classics like "Shuffering and Shmiling", "Colonial Mentality" and "Army Arrangement" in a live setting. A new studio album called "From Africa with Fury: Rise" was released on 5 April 2011. It was recorded in London, produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun himself. Seun Kuti is featured in Calle 13's song ""Todo se mueve"" (Everything Moves), on their 2010

title: Fela Kuti

text: Nigeria and Japan, where Fela's music was controlled by other companies. In 2005, Universal Music USA licensed all of its world-music titles to the UK-based label Wrasse Records, which repackaged the same 26 CDs for distribution in the USA (replacing the MCA-issued titles there) and the UK. In 2009, Universal created a new deal for the USA with Knitting Factory Records and for Europe with PIAS, which included the release of the "Fela!" Broadway cast album. In 2013, FKO Ltd, the entity that owned the rights of all of Fela's compositions, was acquired by BMG Rights Management. In 2003, an

title: Fela Kuti

text: Africa in the 70s and Nigeria was among the most corrupt countries of the time. The Nigerian government was responsible for election rigging and coups that ultimately worsened poverty, economic inequality, unemployment, and political instability, which further promoted corruption and thuggery. Fela's protest songs covered themes inspired by the realities of corruption and socio-economic inequality in Africa. Fela Kuti's political statements could be heard throughout Africa. Kuti's open vocalization of the violent and oppressive regime controlling Nigeria did not come without consequence. He was arrested on over 200 different occasions, including his longest stint of 20 months after his arrest

title: Fela Kuti

text: and The Neville Brothers. In 1989, Fela and Egypt '80 released the anti-apartheid "Beasts of No Nation" that depicts on its cover U.S. President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African State President Pieter Willem Botha, that title of the composition, as Barrett notes, having evolved out of a statement by Botha: "This uprising [against the apartheid system] will bring out the beast in us." Fela's album output slowed in the 1990s, and eventually he stopped releasing albums altogether. In 1993, he and four members of the Afrika '70 organization were arrested for murder. The battle against

title: Fela Kuti

text: important way for Africans to fight European cultural imperialism was to support traditional African religions and lifestyles. The American Black Power movement also influenced Fela's political views; he supported Pan-Africanism and socialism, and called for a united, democratic African republic. Some of the famous African leaders he supported during his lifetime include Kwame Nkrumah and Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso. Kuti was a candid supporter of human rights, and many of his songs are direct attacks against dictatorships, specifically the militaristic governments of Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also a social commentator, and he criticized his fellow

title: Fela Kuti

text: spoke his inner thoughts. His rise in popularity throughout the 1970s signaled a change in the relation between music as an art form and Nigerian socio-political discourse. In 1984 Anikulapo harshly criticized and insulted the then authoritarian president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari. One of his popular songs, "Beast Of No Nation", refers to Buhari as an animal in a madman's body; in Nigerian Pidgin: "No be outside Buhari dey ee, na krase man be dat, animal in krase man skin ii". Kuti strongly believed in Africa and always preached peace among Africans. He thought the most

title: Beko Ransome-Kuti

text: and its national deputy, campaigning against the lack of drugs in hospitals. In 1984, Fela was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison by the government of General Muhammadu Buhari. Ransome-Kuti was also jailed, and his medical association was banned. He was released in 1985 when Buhari was deposed by General Ibrahim Babangida; Babangida then invited him to participate in the government. Ransome-Kuti helped to form Nigeria's first human rights organization, the Campaign for Democracy, which in 1993 opposed the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. In 1995, a military tribunal sentenced him to life in prison for bringing the

title: Beko Ransome-Kuti

text: also a medical doctor and an AIDS campaigner. Beko's son, Enitan, is a serving Nigerian Army Senior Officer who was former Commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force. Ransome-Kuti attended Abeokuta Grammar School, Coventry Technical College, and Manchester University, where he became a medical doctor. Ransome-Kuti returned to Nigeria in 1963 upon obtaining his degree. He was deeply affected by the events of 1977 when soldiers under the orders of Olusegun Obasanjo's military government stormed his brother Fela Kuti's nightclub, destroyed his medical clinic and killed his mother. He became chairman of the Lagos branch of the Nigerian Medical Association

title: Femi Kuti

text: Cultural Centre in Lagos and to perform at the Festival d'Angoulême (France), the New Morning Club in Paris and the Moers Festival in Germany. In 2001, Femi collaborated on his album "Fight to Win" with a number of U.S. musicians, including Common, Mos Def, and Jaguar Wright. Also in 2002, Femi contributed a remake of his father's classic song, "Water No Get Enemy", to "Red Hot & Riot", a compilation CD in tribute to Fela Kuti that was released by the Red Hot Organization and MCA. His track was created in collaboration with hip hop and R&B artists, D'Angelo, Macy

title: Gentleman (Fela Kuti album)

text: was originally released in 1973 by EMI. In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Sam Samuelson gave the album five stars and called it "both an Africa 70 and Afro-beat masterpiece." In 2000, MCA Records reissued and bundled "Gentleman" with Kuti's 1975 "Confusion" record. It was the last installment in a 10-CD, 20-album reissue project for Kuti. Rob Brunner of "Entertainment Weekly" gave the reissue an "A", while Robert Christgau from "The Village Voice" gave it an "A–". In Christgau's opinion, while the horn work that introduces the title track "embodies the contradictions of that song's anti-European message", the album is carried

title: Adesola Osakalumi

text: the ensemble and as the Fela Kuti understudy. In 2010, he played Fela Kuti four times on Broadway. In the 2011 national tour, he was promoted to play Fela as the alternate lead (playing the character on weekends and on some evenings). When the musical returned to Broadway in July 2012 for a limited engagement, Osakalumi became the main lead and went on to head the cast for the 2013 national tour and garnered rave reviews. Adesola has choreographed and danced in several commercials as well as upfronts for Target, American Express, Panasonic, PBS Kids, Old Navy, ESPN, Fox TV,

title: New Afrika Shrine

text: New Afrika Shrine The New Afrika Shrine is an open air entertainment centre located in Ikeja, Lagos State. It serves as the host location of the annual Felabration music festival. Currently managed by Femi Kuti (eldest son of Fela Kuti) and Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti, it is the replacement of the old Afrika Shrine created in 1970 by Fela Kuti until it was burnt down in 1977. The New Afrika Shrine showcases photo galleries of Fela and music performances by Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti thus making it a tourist attraction. On July 3rd, 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Shrine

title: Sabbo and Kuti

text: Sabbo and Kuti Sabbo & Kuti (aka Kutiman) are a production duo working together on side projects from their independently successful careers. Working together to mix various styles of music from hip-hop to funk to reggae, Sabbo & Kuti have established explored mixing and mastering in various projects. The pair recently won the ACUM Award 2010 for their production and arrangement on prominent soul/funk/reggae singer Karolina's album "What Do I Do Now?". According to the judges from ACUM-Sabbo & Kuti maintain "a profound understanding of Israeli music and its history and an intelligent use of local sounds and colors in

title: Knitting Factory Records

text: as a political agitator with more than two dozen wives through use of his music. Kuti was jailed over 200 times, and his mother was murdered after being thrown out of a window. His sons Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti have become prominent musicians as well and are promoted by Knitting Factory Records. In addition to releasing music by Fela Kuti and his sons, the label also released the original Broadway cast recording of the musical adaptation "Fela!" Knitting Factory reached a licensing deal with Universal Music to reissue Fela Kuti's music in the United States during 2010. A list

title: New Afrika Shrine

text: and pre-launched the Season of African Cultures 2020 in France. Macron said he had visited the Shrine as a student in 2002. New Afrika Shrine The New Afrika Shrine is an open air entertainment centre located in Ikeja, Lagos State. It serves as the host location of the annual Felabration music festival. Currently managed by Femi Kuti (eldest son of Fela Kuti) and Yeni Anikulapo-Kuti, it is the replacement of the old Afrika Shrine created in 1970 by Fela Kuti until it was burnt down in 1977. The New Afrika Shrine showcases photo galleries of Fela and music performances by

title: Bill T. Jones

text: The play is based on events in the life of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti and is inspired by "Fela: This Bitch of a Life", a 1982 authorized biography of Kuti by Carlos Moore. The Broadway presentation won three Tony Awards, including Best Choreography. Jones is married to Bjorn Amelan, a French national who was raised in Haifa, Israel and several countries in Europe. The two have been together since 1993. Amelan was the romantic and business partner of noted fashion designer Patrick Kelly from 1983 until Kelly’s death from AIDS complications in 1990. In addition to pursuing his

title: Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee

text: Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee is the eighth studio-album by Haitian singer-songwriter Wyclef Jean. It was released on September 15, 2017. On June 22, 2017, Wyclef released the first single from the album, "Fela Kuti". The song has a jazz 70's beat. Another song was released and called "What Happened to the Love." On July 14, 2017, Wyclef released the "Fela Kuti" official lyric video. He has also been teasing on his Instagram for a music video release. Mr. Wavvy of "Cult MTL" offered a negative critique,

title: Ray Lugo

text: 2001, Lugo formed Kokolo, after becoming interested in the afrobeat music of Nigeria’s Fela Kuti. Kokolo became part of the new wave of Afrobeat groups that emerged in New York in the early 2000s and would go on to play concerts globally and collaborate with artists such as Fela Kuti & Egypt 80/King Sunny Ade drummer Jojo Kuo, Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter, Antibalas, Faze Action and many others. The band has released five studio albums: 2002's "Fuss and Fight", 2004's "More Consideration", 2007's "Love International", 2009's "Heavy Hustling" and 2016's "100 Fevers". The group has been featured in international compilations,

title: Fela!

text: "Are "FELA!" musical producers headed for trouble?" in an article describing potential copyright issues breached by the play's writers and producers. This prediction eventually became reality as Seanima later broke the story about "Fela!"'s producers being sued by writer and historian Carlos Moore, author of Fela's authorized biography entitled "Fela, Fela! This Bitch of a Life!" (London: Allison & Busby, 1982). In December 2011, the dispute between the producers and Moore was settled, it being agreed that all playbills and associated materials would henceforth bear an acknowledgement stating that the musical was inspired by Moore's book. A joint statement was

title: Seun Kuti

text: album "Entren los que quieran." He participated actively in the Occupy Nigeria protests against the fuel subsidy removal policy of President Goodluck Jonathan in his native Nigeria, in January 2012. Seun Kuti is an atheist. Seun and girlfriend Yetunde George Ademiluyi welcomed a baby girl on 16 December 2013 and named her Ifafunmike Adara Anikulapo-kuti. In 2014, Seun Kuti was given an honorary invitation to perform live for the first time at the Industry Nite. Seun Kuti on Myspace Seun Kuti Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the youngest

title: Fela Durotoye

text: Morolaoluwa. Fela Durotoye is a Christian, together with his whole family. Fela Durotoye Adetokunbo Olufela (Oluwafeolami) Durotoye (born in Ibadan, Oyo State on 12 May 1971) is a business consultant, leadership expert, and motivational speaker. Fela is the president of the GEMSTONE Nation Builders Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization targeted at training youths towards transformational leadership and social change. Fela Durotoye was born to Layiwola and Adeline Durotoye, both professors at the University of Ibadan. After his parents moved to University of Ife, Fela attended the Staff Children’s School (1974–1981) and graduated to Moremi High School (1981–1986). Durotoye proceeded to

title: KUTI

text: Roddick bought KUTI and played classical music. So few listeners tuned in that the station did not attract enough advertisers to keep going, and Roddick had to sell the station at a loss. KUTI KUTI (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Yakima, Washington, United States area. The station is now owned by Townsquare Media. The station reaches all parts of the Yakima Valley area. It airs programming from ESPN Radio. The 1460 frequency was first occupied by KIMA, which started operations on October 19, 1944. When KUTI went on the air on 980, it

title: KUTI

text: KUTI KUTI (1460 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a sports format to the Yakima, Washington, United States area. The station is now owned by Townsquare Media. The station reaches all parts of the Yakima Valley area. It airs programming from ESPN Radio. The 1460 frequency was first occupied by KIMA, which started operations on October 19, 1944. When KUTI went on the air on 980, it was owned by Wally Nelskog, with a rock 'n' roll format. Before the switch to 1460, KUTI was formerly KMWX, with a country-western format. 980 kHz is now KTCR. In 1957, Harrison A.

title: Zombie (album)

text: the song "Zombie," which led to Kuti being banned from entering Ghana. The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Kuti's musicians deserted him, due to rumors that Kuti was planning to use the entirety of the proceeds to fund his presidential campaign. Veal, Michael. Fela Kuti, composer. "Coffin For Head of State / Unknown Soldier". Compact Disc. Liner notes. Los Angeles: Universal Music, 2000. Zombie (album) Zombie is a studio album by Nigerian Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti. It was released in Nigeria by Coconut Records in 1976, and in the United Kingdom by Creole Records

title: Nnamdi Moweta

text: rap music. The program aired on KPFK that year and afterwards, Moweta was asked by KPFK to host a weekly show and subsequently, Radio Afrodicia began broadcasting on June 21, 1995. Moweta currently hosts Radio Afrodicia, which features both internationally-known and new musicians. Moweta has interviewed well-known artists such as Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti, Femi Kuti, Baaba Maal, Papa Wemba, Youssou N'Dour, Asa and Fally Ipupa. For over twenty years, Moweta has increased the US exposure of African artists such as Fela Kuti, King Sunny Adé, Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe, Koffi Olomide, and Nneka. Moweta said, "I've been doing this

title: What Kate Does

text: week." VanDerWerff of the "LA Times", Ryan of the "Chicago Tribune", Sepinwall of "The Star-Ledger", Jensen of "Entertainment Weekly" and Mark Medley of the "National Post" also found the episode to contain humorous lines. This episode was watched by 11 million American viewers and 1.57 million Canadian viewers. What Kate Does "What Kate Does" is the 106th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's "Lost" and third episode of the sixth season. It was written by executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed in September 2009 by Paul Edwards. "What Kate Does" was first aired February 9, 2010,

title: What Kate Does

text: What Kate Does "What Kate Does" is the 106th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's "Lost" and third episode of the sixth season. It was written by executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed in September 2009 by Paul Edwards. "What Kate Does" was first aired February 9, 2010, on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. Kate Austen is the character on whom the episode is centered. In December 2007, Kate Austen chases after James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), who escapes from the Others' captivity in the island's temple and is grieving over

title: Fela Durotoye

text: Fela Durotoye Adetokunbo Olufela (Oluwafeolami) Durotoye (born in Ibadan, Oyo State on 12 May 1971) is a business consultant, leadership expert, and motivational speaker. Fela is the president of the GEMSTONE Nation Builders Foundation, a non-profit, non-governmental organization targeted at training youths towards transformational leadership and social change. Fela Durotoye was born to Layiwola and Adeline Durotoye, both professors at the University of Ibadan. After his parents moved to University of Ife, Fela attended the Staff Children’s School (1974–1981) and graduated to Moremi High School (1981–1986). Durotoye proceeded to earn his Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science with Economics,

title: László Kuti

text: with FC Marchegg in the Austrian regional league followed. Kuti made nine appearances for the Hungary national football team from 1979 to 1980. László Kuti László Kuti (born 23 October 1954) is a former Hungary international football forward who played for clubs in Hungary, Turkey and Austria. Born in Székesfehérvár, Kuti started playing youth football for local side Szabadegyháza FC. He turned professional with Videoton FC in 1973. He moved to Dunaújváros FC in 1976 and would spend four seasons with the club. Kuti spent the following five seasons with Budapest Honvéd FC, winning the Hungarian league in the 1984–85

title: László Kuti

text: László Kuti László Kuti (born 23 October 1954) is a former Hungary international football forward who played for clubs in Hungary, Turkey and Austria. Born in Székesfehérvár, Kuti started playing youth football for local side Szabadegyháza FC. He turned professional with Videoton FC in 1973. He moved to Dunaújváros FC in 1976 and would spend four seasons with the club. Kuti spent the following five seasons with Budapest Honvéd FC, winning the Hungarian league in the 1984–85 season. In 1985, Kuti moved to Turkey, joining Süper Lig side Denizlispor. He made 19 league appearances for the club. A brief stint

title: Fela!

text: become overtly political. The regime responds to the provocation with increasingly violent retaliation. Kuti perseveres and releases "Zombie", an international hit openly critical of the Nigerian government. The show depicts the army raid of Kuti's compound (a commune he called Kalakuta Republic), reportedly by 1000 soldiers, which followed the release of "Zombie". The raid culminates with the torture of Kuti, his wives and other commune residents, and the murder of his mother. The show concludes with a protest staged by Kuti in October 1979, accompanied by his family and members of the Young African Pioneers. The protest was held on

title: What She Does Best

text: What She Does Best What She Does Best is a studio album by country singer Lynn Anderson, released in 1988. It was her only album with Mercury records. Notable due to featuring her last charting single, "What She Does Best" did not chart and was commercially unsuccessful. It would be her last album for four years, as Anderson went into a brief retirement and officially retired from releasing singles. The singles from this disc were "Under the Boardwalk" (a cover version of The Drifters' hit), "What He Does Best", and "How Many Hearts". "Under the Boardwalk" reached No. 24; the

title: Jay-Z

text: for the very first time, then performed "Run This Town" with Jay-Z. Among his success, Jay-Z has ventured into producing Broadway shows. Along with Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, Jay-Z helped produced the play "Fela!", a musical celebrating the work of the late Nigerian star Fela Kuti. Jay-Z said he was inspired by the power of Kuti's work and his life story, which resulted in his interest to help produce the musical. "Fela!" is a story about an African pioneer and political activist who made his first moves on the scene during the 1970s. On January 23, 2010, Jay-Z

title: What Kate Does

text: reviews"; however, this was down significantly from the previous episode's 89 and Bonnie Covel of About.com noted that " 'What Kate Does' brought us a bit of negativity. In general, fans just didn't like the episode". "What Kate Does" was largely considered to be a step down from the season premiere in pacing, revelations and writing; Mike Hale of "The New York Times" described the episode as "contemplative", "anticlimactic" and "subdued" and the flash sideways as "kind of boring and seemingly pointless." Chris Carabott of IGN, who gave the episode a score of 7.3 summed up that " 'What Kate

title: Elizabeth Kuti

text: Elizabeth Kuti Elizabeth Kuti (born 1969) is an English actress and playwright. English-born Kuti graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a degree in English, and completed her MA at King's College London. She is of partial Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather, whose original surname Kipslinger was adapted to 'Kuti' to disguise its Germanic origins. In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights. In October 2004, she joined the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. In 1999, the company Rough Magic produced