Music reviews, ratings, news and more. High marks go to the scathing commentary that Fela Anikulapo Kuti lets loose but also to the instrumentation and the overall arrangements, as they prove to be some of the most interesting and innovative of Fela’s ’70s material.A list of AllMusic's best music of 1971. Album of the day Gentleman (1973) Sam Samuelson allmusic: Gentleman is both an Africa 70 and Afro-beat masterpiece.
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His brothers, Beko Ransome-Kuti and Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, both medical doctors, are well known in Nigeria. His mother, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a feminist activist in the anti-colonial movement his father, Reverend Israel Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, an Anglican minister and school principal, was the first president of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. He has been called "superstar, singer, musician, Panafricanist, polygamist, mystic, legend." During the height of his popularity, he was often hailed as one of Africa's most "challenging and charismatic music performers." Biography Early life and career File:1940s family Ransome Kuti.pngReverend Israel and Funmilayo beside him, Dolu is behind and Fela in foreground, baby in arms is not named (most likely Beko), Olikoye is to the rightFela was born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria into an upper-middle-class family. Find album reviews, songs, credits and award information for Best Best of Fela Kuti by Fela Kuti on AllMusic - 2000 - More than two years after his death.Africa '70, Egypt '80, Koola Lobitos, Nigeria '70, Hugh Masekela, Ginger Baker, Tony Allen, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Roy Ayers, Lester BowieOlufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti (15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997), known professionally as Fela Kuti, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician, composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights activist, and political maverick. / Authority Stealing: Fla An&237 k&250 l&225 p&243 Kuti & Afrika 70: 1.
In 1963, Fela moved back to Nigeria, re-formed Koola Lobitos and trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. In 1960, Fela married his first wife, Remilekun (Remi) Taylor, with whom he would have three children ( Femi, Yeni, and Sola). While there, he formed the band Koola Lobitos, playing a fusion of jazz and highlife. Later he was sent to London in 1958 to study medicine but decided to study music instead at the Trinity College of Music, the trumpet being his preferred instrument. He attended the Abeokuta Grammar School in Abeokuta.
In 1977, Fela and the Afrika '70 released the album Zombie, a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian military. Around this time, Kuti became even more involved in the Yoruba religion. During 1972, Ginger Baker recorded Stratavarious with Fela appearing alongside Bobby Tench. As popular as Fela's music had become in Nigeria and elsewhere, it was also very unpopular with the ruling government, and raids on the Kalakuta Republic were frequent.
In 1978, Fela married 27 women, many of whom were his dancers, composers, and singers to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Kalakuta Republic. Fela and his band then took residence in Crossroads Hotel, as the Shrine had been destroyed along with his commune. Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to the Dodan Barracks in Lagos, General Olusegun Obasanjo's residence, and to write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier", referencing the official inquiry that claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier. Fela claimed that he would have been killed had it not been for the intervention of a commanding officer as he was being beaten. The Kalakuta Republic was burned, and Fela's studio, instruments, and master tapes were destroyed. Fela was severely beaten, and his elderly mother (whose house was located opposite the commune) was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries.
He formed his own political party, which he called Movement of the People (MOP), in order to "clean up society like a mop". The second was at the Berlin Jazz Festival after which most of Fela's musicians deserted him, due to rumours that Fela was planning to use the entire proceeds to fund his presidential campaign.Despite the massive setbacks, Fela was determined to come back. The year was also marked by two notorious concerts, the first in Accra in which riots broke out during the song "Zombie", which led to Fela being banned from entering Ghana.
After 20 months, he was released from prison by General Ibrahim Babangida. Amnesty designated him a prisoner of conscience, and his case was also taken up by other human rights groups. (International Thief-Thief)".In 1984, Muhammadu Buhari's government, of which Kuti was a vocal opponent, jailed him on a charge of currency smuggling which Amnesty International and others denounced as politically motivated. He further infuriated the political establishment by dropping the names of ITT Corporation vice-president Moshood Abiola and then General Olusegun Obasanjo at the end of a hot-selling 25-minute political screed entitled "I.T.T. At this time, Fela created a new band called Egypt '80 (reflecting his reading of pan-African literature) and continued to record albums and tour the country.
President Ronald Reagan, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and South African State President Pieter Willem Botha, that title of the composition, as Barrett notes, having evolved out of a statement by Botha: "This uprising will bring out the beast in us." Fela's album output slowed in the 1990s, and eventually he stopped releasing albums altogether. In 1989, Fela and Egypt '80 released the anti- apartheid Beasts of No Nation that depicts on its cover U.S. In 1986, Fela performed in Giants Stadium in New Jersey as part of the Amnesty International A Conspiracy of Hope concert, sharing the bill with Bono, Carlos Santana, and The Neville Brothers. Once again, Fela continued to release albums with Egypt '80, made a number of successful tours of the United States and Europe and also continued to be politically active.
More than a million people attended Fela's funeral at the site of the old Shrine compound. Rumours were also spreading that he was suffering from an illness for which he was refusing treatment.On 3 August 1997, Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, already a prominent AIDS activist and former Minister of Health, announced his younger brother's death a day earlier from Kaposi's sarcoma brought on by AIDS. The battle against military corruption in Nigeria was taking its toll, especially during the rise of dictator Sani Abacha.
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