“I’m going to change Africa,” Fela Kuti says in the ambitious, highly-charged musical about his life and work. “I’m going to change the world.” It’s not an idle boast. “Fela!” the multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway show that ...

Produced by Jay-Z and Will and Jada Pinckett Smith FELA’s Energy is Infectious It’s 2:00 a.m. in Lagos, Nigeria in 1978. The air is warm. Head nodding, pulsating afrobeat rhythms echo off of the walls of a club in a bad part of town. Fela Kuti, dressed ...

NEW YORK, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Paley Center for Media will honor Tom Freston (principal, Firefly3) at its annual benefit dinner in New York, which will take place on Thursday, May 31, at 6:30 p.m. at Gotham Hall in Manhattan.

3-time Tony Award winner FELA! coming to Jones Hall June 5-10 From SOCIETY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Houston Community Newspapers Society for the Performing Arts proudly presents one of the most critically acclaimed musicals to ever hit Broadway—three-time ...

Fela Kuti, the outspoken Nigerian originator of afrobeat, began his highly-anticipated tour of the U.S. in the fall of 1986, two years behind schedule. It wasn’t his fault. Arrested by the Nigerian government in 1984 at the Lagos airport en route to ...

Celebrated nation-building strategist and multi-award winning inspirational speaker, Fela Durotoye has released a new book as he turns 41 today, May 12, 2012. According to Durotoye, The Subordinate, subtitled: “Becoming the right candidate for ...

To understand what a dynamic and important narrative Fela Kuti’s life possesses, it helps to know that he’s the subject of Fela!, an acclaimed Broadway musical produced by Jay-Z and directed by Bill T. Jones. That sets the stage for the new ...

The extraordinary success of the musical Fela!, and the resurgence of interest in all things Fela Kuti, has made "Afrobeat" a popular buzzword among label publicists. The invocation is often fanciful; albums claiming to be Afrobeat releases ...

The youngest son of the legendary Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the founding father of Afrobeat, Seun Kuti has big shoes to fill. He has made his way in the world not as an imitator of his father's style, but as a disciple of his father's vision.

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