Nigeria's Fela Kuti was one of the leading ambassadors of African music, bringing his Afrobeat sound to fans around the world. Though he passed away in 1997, his influence continues to resonate, ...

Tony Allen breaks down the five major drum patterns of Afrobeat in an unreleased clip from the recent documentary short Birth of Afrobeat. Production team Rest In Beats and director Opiyo Okeyo ...

Lagos — World music fans long ago discovered the searing, danceable power of a sound called Afrobeat championed by charismatic Nigerian singer, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Thirteen years after Kuti's death, ...

Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, listening to jazz drummers like Gene Krupa and Art Blakey. He started playing the drums at 18, but several months later, he announced to his ...

Drummer Tony Allen never showed any signs of slowing down, says one of the young musicians who had the honour of studying under him. Allen, a storied musician who is credited with pioneering the ...

Few drummers have played such a key role in creating a musical genre and style as Tony Allen. The Nigerian drummer, who died of an aneurysm aged 79 in Paris, where he lived, was the percussive genius ...

It is getting near midnight on a Friday evening in the Nigerian capital in the late 1970s. Young Lagosians are trekking from Oju Elegba, at the heart of the city’s night club scene, towards the old ...

A look into the music of Fela Kuti and the genre Afrobeat. Fela Kuti has inspired musicians from all over the world from Burna Boy and Beyoncé, to Miles Davis. Sound Field dives into the musical ...

Tony Allen, the pioneering drummer who helped define Afrobeat during his tenure with Fela Kuti, died Thursday evening. He was 79. “There was no band like the Africa ’70,” Femi Kuti, Fela’s son, told ...

According to Grammy-nominated Afrobeat icon Femi Kuti, legendary drummer Tony Allen wasn't involved in creating the sound with his late father and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti. In a recent ...

Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, listening to jazz drummers like Gene Krupa and Art Blakey. He started playing the drums at 18, but several months later, he announced to his ...