Afrobeat Brighton

Saturday 15 January 2022

Sharing the culture, with next level Afrobeat Yoruba Juju Music, Igbo Highlife Music, Yoruba Apala Music, Soukous, Afrobeats, Amapiano.

 

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Sharing the culture, with next level Afrobeat

Yoruba Juju Music, Igbo Highlife Music, Yoruba Apala Music, Soukous, Afrobeats, SA Amapiano.

About this Event

Afrobeat was developed in the late 1960s led by Fela Kuti

who, with drummer Tony Allen, experimented with different contemporary music of the time. Afrobeat stemmed from Highlife which began in Ghana in the early 1920s. … He returned to Lagos and played a highlife-jazz hybrid.

“Power Show” was recorded after a particularly savage beating, Fela Kuti received at the hands of the Nigeria police early 1981, no-one has ever been prosecuted for the very serious assault.

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