As New Orleans heads into the Carnival season, local venues provide the soundtrack for the season.

Singer Seun Kuti has opened up on what his late father and Afrobeat singer Fela Kuti did to one of his teachers when he was young He said that his dad did not support the beating of children and ...

Seun Kuti and Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey feature in 'The Odyssey,' a new film documenting the rise or Yoruba music and ...

Hundreds jammed into an all-night concert hall in Nigeria's commercial hub Lagos for a festival celebrating the legacy of musical revolutionary Fela Kuti and his political activism. Kuti ...

Played by Michelle Williams in Fela!, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s muse, L.A. activist Sandra Izsadore, has her say. Played by Michelle Williams in Fela!, Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti’s muse ...

January 22, 2025 • Will Ana and Felix ever figure out their New Years Resolution for 2025? The clock is ticking. They contemplate that and share their favorite recent new music.

Denise Trucello Today, the Recording Academy carries on its tradition of enshrining the most impactful and enduring ...

But life with Fela was anything but quiet,” Yeni reflected. Femi Kuti, the couple’s first son, added that the book sheds light on Fela’s relentless pursuit of justice and his revolutionary ...

particularly in the figure of Kuti’s passionate, controversial father, Fela Kuti. Femi himself started out in the early 1980s as a member of his late father’s band Egypt 80 and has stuck ...

Yeni Kuti, singer and daughter of the late Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, has reacted to actress Ngozi Ezeonu’s comments on inappropriate dressing at auditions, urging the actress to reconsider her ...

Renowned Afrobeat family of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti recently in Lagos, launched the biography of their mother, Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti titled: “Mrs Kuti” (a memoir) to the world. The book is a ...

depicting a journey to the promised land set to Duke Ellington’s classic “Come Sunday,” Peven Everett’s hit “Gabriel,” and the pulse of Fela Kuti’s Afro-Pop. Stories by Paris Wolfe I ...