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The Kuti family keeps up Fela's legacy in Afrobeats

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The Kuti family keeps up Fela's legacy in Afrobeats Femi and his son Made are continuing Fela Kuti's Afrobeat legacy nearly 25 years after his death with the album 'Legacy+'.

Made Kuti plays a saxophone during a rehearsal session with his band ‘The Movement’ at the New Africa Shrine in Ikeja, Lagos, on 19 January 2022. Twenty five years after the death of Nigerian music legend Fela Kuti, his son Femi and grandson Made are assuming his legacy and taking the Afrobeat sound to the United States.

With their double album ‘Legacy +’, the father and son duo have been nominated for this year’s Grammys, hoping to win the Global Music category in the US music awards in Los Angeles.

 

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