Jazz Articles about Femi Kuti

About Femi Kuti

Live Review

WOMAD Charlton Park, Malmesbury England July 27-30 2023 What shall we do, if the first bands play at 1pm each day, at this, the UK's oldest and greatest global music festival? Why, we shall Taste The World, investigating a cookery demonstration performance that begins daily at noon! Artists are invited to display their regional culinary skills, a process which can vary between hands-on expertise and advised team-work. They also get to ...

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Afrobeat Diaries

Part 15 - Femi Kuti: Africa For Africa / Antibalas: Who Is This America?

by Chris May
December 1, 2010

Femi KutiAfrica For AfricaWrasse Records2010 Two decades and more down the line with his band, Positive Force, singer and multi-instrumentalist Femi Kuti gets better and better. His take on rhythm may not be the same as that of his father--and why should it be?--but in other respects Femi is keeping Fela's musical flame alive. Positive Force is a horns heavy, ass kicking little big band; Femi's use of call and response ...

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Interview

Femi Kuti: Fight to Win

by Nenad Georgievski
October 20, 2004

Femi Anikulapo Kuti was born in London on 16 June 1962, but he grew up in the Nigerian capital Lagos. Femi developed a real passion for music in early life, and his father, the legendary sax-star Fela Kuti, taught his son to play almost as soon as he could walk and thus learning to play an impressive array of instruments at a young age. Breaking free of his father's influence later in his career, Femi went on to fuse Afro-beat ...