“Tony Allen was one of the giants of African music — who, with Fela Kuti, created the highly original and influential hybrid that became Afrobeat.' Peter Gabriel remembers Tony Allen
. Each release depended on Allen’s slippery, ferocious, polyrhythmic grooves. “Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat,” Kuti once said.
. “I laughed and told him, ‘I never said so.’ He asked me if I could play jazz, and I said yes. He asked me if I could take solos, and I said yes again.”isteners weren’t sure what to make of the group. “It was like a revolutionary music style coming to the country,”After a visit to the United States in 1969, Allen and Kuti began to cement the endlessly copied sound of Afrobeat.
Eno bought a Kuti album on a whim in a London record shop in the early Seventies. “I think I liked the cover, and I think I liked the fact that the band had so many members,” he told Allen and Kuti were a prolific and indefatigable team for more than a decade. Kuti released multiple albums a year with ease. He was also a tireless performer.. “That’s what the people want.”
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