“… You have a black President in America because of the music. It is the music of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington that fought to enlighten people through music. The Blues in America. It was that music that fought for change at that time, that revolutionized music, that inspired people like my father [Fela], that inspired funk, that inspired people like Quincy Jones, that inspired people like Michael Jackson. It is that music, that era, that has brought us to where we are today, so music has played the major role in change.”
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