In this music video, Afrobeat rebel Fela Kuti performs "Army Arrangement" in London and Lagos (at The Shrine in Okeja). His performance is beautifully intercut with images of Lagos, including military occupation and police beating. It ends with news of Fela's arrest in 1984. Fela died in 1997. Dan Dinello made this for Celluloid Records in 1985. Fo...
rare early footage (shot by Ginger Baker) featuring Fela & Afrika 70 performing in the rainy southeastern town of Calabar, shortly after the the Nigerian civil war
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The legendary Afro Beat Megastar.He will always be remembered for his unfearful music and rhythmic sound.
fela kuti live
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fela at his very best doing what we all love to listen to
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The legendary Afro Beat Megastar.He will always be remembered for his unfearful music and rhytmic sound.
A project that I created in college. A proposed title sequence for the documentary "Music is a Weapon" about Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
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Fela Kuti
From the album 'The Shrine. Afrobeat' (2000)
The great Fela Anikulapo Kuti with Jethro Tull live in Eur0pe. What a great concert.
Dele Sosimi and his afrobeat orchestra pay tribute to legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, performing "Zombie" @ The Fridge, Brixton, London
Directed by Adam Bizanski
Lady and Water No get Enemy
African legendary singer
Shuffering & Shimiling
documentaire sur un héros Nigérian
Bill T. Jones directs Fela! A new musical off broadway at 37 Arts.
http://www.felaoffbroadway.com
The Iconoclastic Fela Kuti!
A clip from the recording session of Water No Get Enemy, the first track recorded for the AIDS benefit project RED HOT + RIOT: THE MUSIC AND SPIRIT OF FELA for the Red Hot Organization. Featuring D'Angelo, Macy Gray, Femi Kuti, Dead Prez, Ahmir Thompson of the Roots, Common, Nile Rodgers, Roy Hargrove, Mos Def, Bilal and others.
This extraordinary clip from the DVD, "Fela in Concert," features Nigeria's most famous musician and composer, Fela Anikulapo Luti, performing the song "Original Suffer Head." Fela was not only the most celebrated African musician of his time, but a revolutionary, and a cultural and political symbol, oftentimes ambiguous to the Western mind.
The A...
In this new musical, directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones with a book by Jim Lewis and arrangements by Aaron Johnson and Antibalas, audiences are welcomed into the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), Fel...
"Trouble Sleep; Yanga Wake Am" - Baaba Maal and Taj Mahal (featuring Kaouding Cissoko)
Red Hot + Riot (a.k.a. Red Hot + Riot: The Music and Spirit of Fela Kuti) is the fourteenth in a series of music compilation projects from the Red Hot Organization to be used as a fundraising tool for AIDS awareness efforts. The album, which takes inspiration fr...
Fela Kuti Lagos
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The legendary Afro Beat Megastar.He will always be remembered for his unfearful music and rhytmic sound.
Rock Classic Night at Circus Atlas, Munich on 15th November 1983 with Ian Anderson, Jack Bruce, Fela Kuti etc.: African Jam Session - thanks to www.laufi.de
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The legendary Afro Beat Megastar.He will always be remembered for his unfearful music and rhythmic sound.
Fela Anikulapo Kuti, The legendary Afro Beat Megastar.He will always be remembered for his unfearful music and rhyhtmic sound.
