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Posts Tagged ‘Fela Kuti’
Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble, Fela Kuti, Music, New York City on June 21, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Mos Def channels Fela Kuti live
Posted in Music, tagged David Letterman, Fela Kuti, live music, television, The Ecstatic on June 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Actually Mos Def featuring a famous monologue by Fela Kuti to lead in “Quiet Dog” from his new album, “The Ecstatic.” This time live on The Late Show with David Letterman. Has Fela ever featured on a late night talk show–even posthumously–or is this a first?
‘Fela’ is a West African Idol
Posted in television, tagged American Idol, Fela Kuti, Music, Nigeria, reality television, Simon Cowell, vaudeville, West African Idol, You can't make this stuff up on June 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
mos def channels fela kuti
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, hip hop, Mos Def, Music on June 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Large parts of Mos Def’s new album, “The Ecstatic,” has been leaked already. That does not put a damper on the anticipation.
interview with Seun Kuti
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Kalakuta Republic, Music, Nigeira, Seun Kuti on May 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Jeremy Weate–he’s behind the excellent Nigeria-based blog, Naijablog–just posted a May 2007 interview he did in Lagos with Seun Kuti–here’s Seun’s MySpace page–the younger of Fela Kuti’s two sons who followed their father into the music business. (By the way, the other son, Femi, is performing here in New York City early next month).
The interview, about 20 minutes long, is a gem. Among others, Seun talks about his admiration for his father (“my dad was the truth”), his relationship with his brother Femi, and what he listens to.
But I especially liked the part where Seun declares his ambitions to run for President of Nigeria some day–something he says wants to do “so bad.”
(Despite Seun’s protestations that he is his own man and does not try to be Fela, it is so that Fela also declared himself President: first of Kalakuta Republic, Fela’s house and performance space in Lagos. Fela also formed a political party, Movement of the People, which he used as a platform to run a quixotic campaign for President of Nigeria.)
Fela, ‘No Agreement’
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Fela, Fela Kuti, mp3, Music, Nigeria, No Agreement on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Bibi Tanga et Le Professeur Inlassable
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Bibi Tanga, Cameroon, Fela Kuti, France, Leçon Numéro Un, Malka Family, Music, Paris, Professeur Inlassable on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The music of Talib Kweli
Posted in Music, tagged Andre Dosunmu, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, hip hop, Kalakuta Republic, music video, rap music, Talib Kweli, Talib Kweli in Nigeria, The Shrine on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The music video for Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli‘s most recent single “Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us)” shot in Lagos, Nigeria, by director Andrew Dosunmu.
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Full Stream of Femi Kuti’s New Album
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Music, Streaming music, The Fader on November 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Day by Day” released last week — his first solo effort in seven years and dates of his North American tour starting in January.
Fela Kuti lives on Broadway
Posted in Music, tagged Afrobeat, Bill T Jones, Black President, Broadway, Fela Kuti, Music, musicals, Nigeria, theater on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill T. Jones … the Tony-winning choreographer of “Spring Awakening,” is back at work in the theater as the choreographer and director of “Fela!,” a musical based on the life of the Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political activist Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (or Fela Kuti, as he is widely known). The show features a book by Mr. Jones and Jim Lewis (“Chronicle of a Death Foretold” on Broadway) and music by Mr. Kuti, who died of AIDS in 1997. It will run Off Broadway at 37 Arts from July 29 to Sept. 21.
Source: New York Times.
More background at Broadway.com, briefly at Jones’ blog and the show’s website.
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