Foals singer/guitarist Yannis Philippakis has announced Lagos Paris London, an EP he made with the late Afrobeat icon and Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen. Credited to Yannis & The Yaw featuring Tony ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian drummer and composer Tony Allen, who worked closely with musician Fela Kuti as a pioneer of the Afrobeat genre, died in Paris aged 79, his manager said. The Afrobeat sound, ...

In a recent interview, Femi Kuti tagged the claim that Tony Allen assisted Fela in creating Afrobeat as "the biggest lie ever told against his father". "Yes, he was a good drummer, but Fela taught him ...

The legendary drummer who was born in Lagos was part of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band, Africa 70, from 1968 to 1979. He served the group as a drummer and musical director. He was exteremely important to ...

Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis just released Lagos Paris London, his EP as Yannis & The Yaw which is a collaboration with the late afrobeat legend Tony Allen. The EP is a nice combination of Foals’ ...

Afrobeat singer Femi Kuti has disputed claims that Tony Allen co-pioneered Afrobeats with his father Fela Kuti. According to Femi, in a video, Fela was a multi-instrumentalist and composer who created ...

At the 1978 Berliner Jazztage, Fela Kuti did not simply perform; he staged a political, spiritual and musical confrontation ...

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. Large record stores, ...