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" When asked how to describe the sound of Afrobeat, Kuti says, "It's the truth.
NPR: Seun Kuti Keeps The Afrobeat Movement Alive
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Fela Kuti fathered the musical movement Afrobeat and its crown prince, 25-year-old Seun Kuti.
NPR: Seun Kuti Keeps The Afrobeat Movement Alive
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Kuti describes Afrobeat, the music that his father created and named, as the sound that raised him.
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Among the demonstrators were musician Seun Anikulapo-Kuti, son of afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti, and activists Femi Falana and Ganiyat Faweyinmi.
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His newest solo album is called Secret Agent, and it sounds like the most fully rounded version of Tony Allen Afrobeat he's ever made.
NPR: Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat
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In the '80s and for a long time afterward, Allen switched to a stripped-down type of Afrobeat, influenced by dub reggae, spacey Nigerian juju and electronica.
NPR: Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat
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Large record stores, what's left of them, often have whole "Afrobeat" sections in world-music departments, and more major cities are home to local Afrobeat bands than ever before.
NPR: Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat
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But as the handclapping gave way to a percolating, polyrhythmic mix of funk, Afrobeat and electric jazz, the crowd migrated to the dance floor from a downstairs bar.
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That I don't have to explain more about who Fela Kuti was or what Afrobeat sounds like is a testament to the remarkable, accelerating rise of Fela's fame since his death in 1997.
NPR: Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat
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"Afrobeat is more than just music, " he says.
NPR: Seun Kuti Keeps The Afrobeat Movement Alive
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By now, a fairly wide assortment of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.
NPR: Beyond Fela Kuti, The Enduring Appeal Of Afrobeat
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Afrobeat is the truth.
NPR: Seun Kuti Keeps The Afrobeat Movement Alive