Afrobeat

Afrobeat is a combination of American funk and jazz combined with West African Highlife and the percussion and vocal traditions from Yoruba music. His triumphal march began in 1968 in Lagos.

Popular in Africa in the mid and late 1960s was the Nigerian Fela Kuti, the most famous artist of African beats. He coined the term, and ( along with his drummer Tony Allen) the musical structure and was responsible for the political component of this style.

The late 1990s, various DJ's began to pick up the Afrobeat again and continue to develop.

Afrobeat artists of the 2000s, in the footsteps of Fela Kuti, include his sons Femi Kuti and Seun Kuti, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra of New York, Franck Biyong & Massak from Cameroon, Segun Damisa & The Afro - Beat Crusaders, Bantu crew Karl Hector & The Malcouns from Munich, Afrodizz and Dele Sosimi and the ex -Africa '70 members Oghene Kologbo (guitar) with Afrobeat Academy, Nicholas Addo - Nettey ( percussion), which is also known as Pax Nicholas, with Ridimtaksi, both currently in Berlin, and Tony Allen ( drums). Also, the Namibians Ees, actually Eric Sell, connects the Afro beat with reggae and kwaito.

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