Tony Allen (musician)

**Tony Oladipo Allen** (an haife Shi 20 ga watan Yulin a shikara 1940 - 30 ga Afrilu 2020)  ya kasance dan Najeriya da Faransa  mai bugawa, mawaki, kuma marubucin waka wanda ya zauna kuma ya yi aiki a Paris, Faransa . Allen ya kasance mai bugawa da kuma darektan kida na Ƙungiyar Fela Kuti ta Afirka '70 daga 1968 zuwa 1979, kuma yana daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa nau'in Afrobeat. Fela sau da ya bayyana cewa "ba tare da Tony Allen ba, ba za a sami Afrobeat ba". Brian Eno ya bayyana shi a matsayin "watakila mafi girman mawaki wanda ya taba rayuwa".   

Daga baya a rayuwa, Allen ya yi aiki tare da Damon Albarn akan ayyuka da yawa, ciki har da Gorillaz, the Good, the Bad & the Queen da Rocket Juice & Moon. An rubuta aikin Allen da rayuwarsa a cikin tarihin rayuwarsa na 2013 Tony Allen: Jagoran Drummer na Afrobeat, wanda aka rubuta tare da Michael E. Veal, wanda a baya ya rubuta cikakken tarihin rayuwar Fela Kuti. 

## Farkon aiki
haifi Allen a Legas, Najeriya ga James Alabi Allen, masanin injiniya daga Birtaniya Najeriya (yanzu Najeriya) da Prudentia Mettle, daga Gold Coast (yanzu Ghana),  Ya fara buga kara yana da shekaru 18, yayin da yake aiki a matsayin injiniya don tashar rediyo. Allen ya sami rinjaye daga kida mahaifinsa ya saurara: Jùjú, sanannen kiɗa na Yoruba daga shekarun 1940, amma kuma jazz na Amurka, da kuma yanayin rayuwa mai girma a Najeriya da Ghana. Allen ya yi aiki tukuru don habaka murya ta musamman a kan drum, yana nazarin LPs da labaran mujallu ta Max Roach">Max Roach da Art Blakey, amma kuma mai ba da gudummawa na Ghana Guy Warren (wanda daga baya aka sani da Kofi Ghanaba - wanda ya habaka sauti mai tsananin bukata wanda ya hadu da kabilar Ghana da ke yin amfani da bop - yana aiki tare da Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, da Max Roach).

"Sir" Victor Olaiya ne ya hayar Allen don yin wasa tare da kungiyar sa mai girma, Cool Cats . Allen ya sami damar cika kujerar drum din lokacin da tsohon mai bugawa na Cool Cats ya bar kungiyar. Allen daga baya ya yi wasa tare da Agu Norris da Heatwaves, Manzanni na Najeriya, da Melody Makers.

## Fela da Afirka '70
A shekara ta 1964, Fela Kuti ya gayyaci Allen zuwa sauraro don kungiyar jazz-highlife da yake kafawa. Kuti da Allen sun yi wasa tare a matsayin 'yan wasa a zagaye na Legas. Fela ya yaba da sauti na musamman na Allen: "Ta yaya ka kasance mutum daya tilo a Najeriya wanda ke taka leda kamar haka - jazz da highlife?" Ta haka ne Allen ya zama memba na asali na Kungiyar "Koola Lobitos" ta Kuti.

A shekara ta alif dari tara da sittin da tara 1969, bayan tafiya mai rikitarwa da ilimi zuwa Amurka, Allen ya yi aiki a matsayin darektan kida na Kungiyar Fela, Afirka '70,  wanda ya habaka sabon sauti na Afirka, ya hadu da kukwalwar kukwalwa da ku'walwar duniya na rai tare da jazz, highlife, da samfurin polyrhythmic na tarurrukan Yoruba. Allen ya habaka sabon salon don habaka sabon kukwar Afirka ta Fela wanda ya hadu wadannan nau'ikan daban-daban.

Allen ya ba da labarin yadda shi da Fela suka rubuta a cikin 1970: "Fela ta kasance tana rubuta sassan ga dukkan mawaka a cikin Kungiyar (Afirka '70). Ni kadai ne ya samo asali da kidan da na buga. Fela zai tambayi wane irin rhythm da nake so in yi wasa.... Kuna iya gaya wa mai kyau mai bugawa saboda muna da gabobi hudu... kuma suna... wasa abubuwa daban-daban... alamu ba kawai daga Yoruba ba... [amma] wasu sassan Najeriya da Afirka"  

Allen ya rubuta fiye da kundi 30 tare da Fela da Afirka '70. Amma a karshen 1970s, rashin jituwa yana karuwa a cikin rukunin Afirka '70, Tattaunawar kan sarauta / biyan kudi da kuma karba sun karu da karfi. A matsayinsa na mai kirkirar rhythms wanda ya goyi bayan Afrobeat da darektan kida, Allen ya ji an raina shi musamman. Fela ya tsaya a kan kansa, yana mai cewa zai sami sarauta don waƙoƙinsa. Fela ya goyi bayan rikodin solo guda uku na Allen: *Kishi* ('75), *Ci gaba* ('77), Babu Kasuwanci Ga Legas ('79), amma a shekara ta 1979, Allen ya zabi barin Afirka '70, yana dauke da mambobi da yawa tare da shi. "'Me ya sa na yanke shawarar cewa lokaci ya yi da zan tafi? Yana da ... komai...da kuma (rashin kulawa...kamar ba ya damuwa, kamar bai sani ba ...Ba ya jin cewa ya yi komai (ba daidai ba). Kuma tare da dukkan kwayar cuta da ke kewaye da su.... akwai mutane 71 a kan yawon shakatawa a yanzu kuma 30 ne kawai ke aiki a cikin Kungiyar....Dole ne ku tambayi dalilin da ya sa. Wadannan maza suna satar Fela daga karfinsa, daga kiɗansa.Don haka Tony ya ci gaba, kuma yana neman sautin kansa. "

## Afrobeat zuwa Afrofunk

Allen ya kafa kungiyarsa, ya yi rikodin No Discrimination a 1980, kuma ya yi aiki a Legas har sai ya yi hijira zuwa London a 1984. Daga baya ya koma Paris, Allen ya yi rikodin tare da Sarki Sunny Adé, Ray Lema da Manu Dibango . Allen ya rubuta *N.E.P.A.* a shekarar 1985.

R&amp;amp;B-Fela, Allen ya habaka sauti mai haɗuwa, ya rushe kuma ya hadu da Afrobeat tare da lantarki, Dub, R & B, da rap. Allen yana nufin wannan kira a matsayin *afrofunk* .

Allen ya dawo tare da sabon aikin da ake tsammani sosai don sakin sa na 13. An yi rikodin kai tsaye a Legas, tare da cikakken kungiyar Afrobeat, Legas No Shaking (Lagos yana da kyau) ya nuna dawowar Allen zuwa tushen Afrobeat bayan ya shiga cikin hadin lantarki na gaba. An saki Lagos No Shaking a ranar 13 ga Yuni 2006.

## Ayyukan da suka biyo baya
cikin "Music Is My Radar" (2000) Blur ya girmama shi, kuma wakar ta Kare tare da Damon Albarn yana maimaita kalmar "Tony Allen ya same ni rawa".

Allen ya bayyana a cikin kundin tarihin Red Hot Organization na Red Hot and Riot (2002) a matsayin girmamawa ga Fela Kuti .  Allen ya bayyana tare da Res, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, Positive Black Soul da Archie Shepp a kan waƙar da ake kira "Babu Yarjejeniya".

Allen ta buga kara a cikin kundin Love Trap na 2003 na Susheela Raman kuma ta yi tare da ita kai tsaye. Allen  rubuta kundin "Live/Tony Allen" (2004) kuma.

A shekara ta 2006, Allen ya shiga Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon, da Simon Tong a matsayin mai bugawa ga Good, the Bad & the Queen .  Allen  tuntubi Albarn bayan ya ji wakar "Music Is My Radar" ta 2000 ta Kungiyar Albarn ta Blur, wacce ta yi nuni da shi. Sun fito  kundi na farko mai taken kansu a cikin 2007, Merrie Land ya biyo baya a cikin 2018. Allen  Albarn sun kuma hada kai a kan kundin Rocket Juice & the Moon na 2012.  

Allen  buga kara a kan wakoki biyu a cikin kundi na *5:55* na Charlotte Gainsbourg na 2007: "5:55" da "Night-Time Intermission", wanda duo na Faransa Air da Jarvis Cocker na Pulp Iska goyi bayan. Ya kuma bayyana yana wasa da kara a cikin bidiyon "Once Upon a Time" na duo Air na Faransa a karshen 2007.

Ya kasance mai zane-zane a kan kundin Zap Mama *Supermoon* (2007) da ReCreation (2009), yana Kara muryarsa ga wakokin "1000 Ways" da "African Diamond".

Kundin sa mai taken, Secret Agent, an sake shi a watan Yunin 2009 ta hanyar World Circuit . 

Ya fitar da A Tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (2017), EP mai wakoki hudu a kan Blue Note Records wanda ke nuna sake fasalin Afrobeat na Art Blakey's "Moanin'". A cikin 2017, Allen ta hadu da Mawakan Mali Oumou Sangaré don wakar "Yere faga" daga kundin *Mogoya* .

shir fina-finai Opiyo Okeyo ya fitar da fim din Birth of Afrobeat (2019) game da rayuwar Allen a cikin kida. din  nuna a bikin fina-finai na Black Film na Amurka kuma ya lashe lambar yabo ta 21st Century Fox Global Inclusion Award for Emerging Voices a bikin fina'a na BlackStar. Damon Albarn da Tony Allen da kungiyar sun yi wasan kwaikwayo a cikin Netherlands, daga cikin lokacin Lowlands Festival (2019). *Haihuwar Afrobeat* ta samo asali ne daga gidan talabijin na Jama'a na Amurka kuma ta fara fitowa a talabijin a ranar 20 ga Janairu, 2020 a kan PBS.

An nuna Allen a kan wakar Gorillaz "How Far?" (2020) tare da Skepta, a matsayin wani bangare na aikin Song Machine na Kungiyar.

An saki kundi biyu na Allen bayan mutuwarsa. Akwai *Babu karshen* (2021) ya nuna Allen a kan samarwa, tare da rappers da mawaka daga ko'ina cikin duniya. Sun ha da Danny Brown, Nah Eeto da Sampa the Great .Sakamakon na biyu bayan mutuwar Allen shine The Solution Is Restless, kundin hadin gwiwa wanda ke nuna Joan As Police Woman da Dave Okumu .

2021 kuma  ga sakin kundin Afrilu Maris In Cinerama, wanda ke nuna Allen a matsayin mai bugawa; an kuma yaba masa don rubuce-rubuce da yawa.

## Bayanan da aka yi

; Solo discography

* *Jealousy* (1975)
* *Progress* (1977)
* *No Accommodation for Lagos* (1979)
* *No Discrimination* (1979)
* *Never Expect Power Always*  (with Afrobeat 2000)  (1985)
* *Too Many Prisoners*  (with Zebra Crossing)  (1987)
* *Afrobeat Express* (1989)
* *Ariya* (1998)
* *Ariya (remixes)* (1999)
* *Black Voices* (1999)
* *Black Voices Remixed* (2000)
* *Psyco On Da Bus*  (with Doctor L, Jean Phi Dary, Jeff Kellner & Cesar Anot)  (2001)
* *HomeCooking* (2002)
* *Live* (2004)
* *Lagos No Shaking* (2006)
* *Secret Agent* (2009)
* *Inspiration Information 4*  (with Jimi Tenor) (2009)
* *Black Voices Revisited* (2010)
* *Film of Life* (2014)
* *A Tribute to Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers* (2014)
* *The Source* (2017)
* *OTO Live Series*  (with Jimi Tenor)  (2018)
* *Tomorrow Comes The Harvest*  (with Jeff Mills)  (2018)
* *Rejoice*  (with Hugh Masekela)  (2020)
* *How Far?*  (with Gorillaz and Skepta)  (2020)
* *There Is No End* (2021)
* *The Solution Is Restless*  (with Dave Okumu and Joan As Police Woman)  (2021)

; with Fela Kuti

* *Fela's London Scene* (1970)
* *Live!* (1971)
* *Why Black Man Dey Suffer* (1971)
* *Open &amp;amp; Close* (1971)
* *Roforofo Fight* (1972)
* *Shakara* (1972)
* *Afrodisiac* (1973)
* *Gentleman* (1973)
* *Confusion* (1974)
* *He Miss Road* (1974)
* *Alagbon Close* (1975)
* *Everything Scatter* (1975)
* *Excuse O* (1975)
* *Expensive Shit* (1975)
* *Monkey Banana* (1975)
* *Noise For Vendor Mouth* (1975)
* *Ikoyi Blindness* (1976)
* *Kalakuta Show* (1976)
* *Na Poi* (1976)
* *Unnecessary Begging* (1976)
* *Upside Down* (1976)
* *Yellow Fever* (1976)
* *Fear Not For Man* (1977)
* *J.J.D – Live at Kalakuta Republik* (1977)
* *No Agreement* (1977)
* *Opposite People* (1977)
* *Sorrow Tears and Blood* (1977)
* *Shuffering and Shmiling* (1977)
* *Stalemate* (1977)
* *Zombie* (1977)
* *Unknown Soldier* (1979)
* *V.I.P.* (1979)
* *Music of Many Colours* (1980)
* *I Go Shout Plenty* (1986, recorded in 1977)

; Other appearances

* Various - *Racubah! – A Collection of Modern Afro Rhythms* (1999)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 1* (2000)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 2* (2000)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 3* (2000)
* Various - *Afrobeat...No Go Die!* (2000)
* Ernest Ranglin - *Modern Answers To Old Problems* (2000)
* Doctor L - *Mountains Will Never Surrender* (2000)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble* (2001)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 4* (2001)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 5* (2001)
* Various - *The Allenko Brotherhood Ensemble Part 6* (2001)
* Bababatteur - *Awa Band* (2004)
* New Cool Collective - *Trippin* (2006)
* The Good, the Bad &amp;amp; the Queen - *The Good, the Bad &amp;amp; the Queen* (2007)
* Charlotte Gainsbourg - *5:55* (2007)
* Rocket Juice &amp;amp; the Moon - *Rocket Juice & the Moon* (2012)
* Various - *The Rough Guide to African Disco* (2013)
* Chicago Afrobeat Project - *What Goes Up* (2017)
* Gonjasufi - *Mandela Effect* (2017)
* The Good, the Bad & the Queen - *Merrie Land* (2018)
* Keleketla - *Keleketla!* (2020)
* Adrian Younge - *Tony Allen JID018* (2023)

## See also

* Femi Kuti
* Seun Kuti

## Bayanan da aka ambata

## Hadin waje

* 
* Tony Allen on Bandcamp 
* Tony Allen discography at Discogs 
* Tony Allen discography at MusicBrainz