Seun Kuti is carrying on the family business,
spreading his father Fela Kuti’s glorious Afrobeat
revolution around the globe. The Nigerian vocalist
and multi-instrumentalist started performing with
his father’s raucous band Egypt 80 at the age of
eight, eventually taking over leadership of the
horn-laden 16-piece ensemble after his father’s
death in 1997. Like his older brother Femi Kuti, who
also leads a powerful Afrobeat band, Seun honors
Fela’s legacy while putting his own spin on the
relentlessly funky Afrobeat sound. And he injects
hip-hop grooves into Afrobeat’s potent blend of
West African rhythms and James Brown soul on the
new CD , Seun Kuti & Egypt 80. This show will be hot!
"Seun Kuti is the new standard-bearer of Afrobeat."
—Boston Globe
After discovering the Black Power movement on a trip
to the U.S. in the 1960s, Fela Kuti formed the Kalakuta
Republic in Nigeria, a commune where he recorded, performed,
raised Femi and Seun—and later declared his
independence from the Nigerian state.
Seun Kuti
& Egypt 80
& Egypt 80
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Listen:
Seun Kuti
"Na Oil"
