GONYEA: The album draws inspiration from jazz, funk and West African music, and it pays homage to the Afrobeat sound that Femi's father, Fela Kuti, helped create in the 1960s. Kuti spoke to us ...

Multiple Grammy-nominated Afrobeat pioneer Femi Anikulapo-Kuti is set to release his highly anticipated eleventh studio album, Journey Through Life, on April 25th, 2025. The announcement follows ...

Femi Kuti shares that Fela's creative process involves assembling the drummer, percussionist, rhythm, tenor, and bass guitarists, and they play for about a week before he calls on the singers and ...

Sat comfortably in a large chair at the New Afrika Shrine, his family’s legendary Nigerian music venue, Femi Kuti was surrounded by history. The concert hall is an homage to his father Fela Kuti’s ...

This was never really an option (and most likely not really an aspiration either) for singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Femi Kuti, whose own journey in music started as a member of afrobeat ...

Femi Kuti learnt early on that his name spelt trouble. “In school, I was on the field fighting every day because the children of the rich would say things against my father,” he tells Big Issue when ...

Afrobeat icon, Femi Kuti has revealed that he faced opposition from his father, Fela Kuti and his fans after he left the Afrobeat pioneer’s band to form his own in 1986. He explained that Fela ...

Sat comfortably in a large chair at the New Afrika Shrine, his family's legendary Nigerian music venue, Femi Kuti was surrounded by history. The concert hall is an homage to his father Fela Kuti's ...

Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti speaks on the foundation of Afrobeats Femi Kuti disputes claims that Tony Allen co-created Afrobeat with Fela According to Grammy-nominated Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti ...

Femi Kuti performs at the New Afrika Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos Femi Kuti, an Afrobeat legend and activist, is questioning the ability of music to change the world Sat comfortably in a large chair at ...