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Which African Jazz Artist Most Merits A Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award?
Music is a weapon of the future, music is the weapon of the progressives, music is the weapon of the givers of life.
—Fela Kuti
Significantly—and incredibly—Fela Kuti is the first African artist to receive the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award—63 years after the category was first introduced. The question is, which other African jazz and jazz-adjacent artists do you think are most deserving of this particular recognition, and why?
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