Afrobeat

Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with African percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s.Afrobeat's main creator and best known artist was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who coined the term Afrobeat, shaped the musical structure and also the political context of the genre. He launched Afrobeat in the early 60s. Kuti had earlier played a fusion of jazz and highlife (For which he first used the term 'Afrobeat') with his Koola Lobitos Band. The distinctive production sound of Afrobeat's rhythms are the hallmark of drummer Tony Allen, a long-standing musical collaborator and band-leader with Fela. While Afrobeat as a concept existed prior to Allen's involvement, Allen must be correctly credited with securing the role and pattern of the (Afro) "beat" through his distinctive syncopated and polyrhythmic minimal playing style.
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