Born: Nigeria

Active: Nigeria, USA, Canada, UK

Notable Names: Fela Kuti, Mr. Something Something, Kola Ogunkoya, Tony Allen, Sonny Okosun

Story: Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.

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