" When asked how to describe the sound of Afrobeat, Kuti says, "It's the truth.
Fela Kuti fathered the musical movement Afrobeat and its crown prince, 25-year-old Seun Kuti.
Musically, however, the influence of Kuti is clearly evident on the new generation of Afrobeats artists.
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Fela Kuti was imprisoned and beaten for singing about the same things his son now sings about.
Kuti describes Afrobeat, the music that his father created and named, as the sound that raised him.
We met when I interviewed her about a version of the song "MAW Expensive" by the late, great Fela Kuti.
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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So on the song "Many Things, " Kuti sings about people who have no water to drink and nowhere to live.
In the film, with its thematic concern with the freeing influence of music, Tarek insists that Walter listen to Afro-pop star Fela Kuti.
When I speak about music I tend to refer particularly to the late Fela Kuti, who lived in Lagos, who was a "Lagosian" (the indigenous of Lagos call themselves Lagosian).
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.
And the song gets covered by Antibalas, which is another New York group an entire generation later, which are these people who are paying homage to Feli Kuti and other Afro-beat artists.
The fact that he does not seem to be facing the same sort of pressure from the government may be a sign of progress, but Kuti attributes his relative freedom to his father's tough stance.
With members of his late father's band, Egypt 80, playing alongside younger musicians and with the words "FELA LIVES" tattooed across his back, Seun Kuti made world music that completely transcended the term: utterly African, yet thoroughly cosmopolitan.
It also features former Clash bassist Paul Simonon and the 67-year-old drummer Tony Allen who, as a member Fela Kuti's Nigerian funk band in the '70s, proved himself to be one of the greatest groove stokers in recorded history.
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.
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