Afro beat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, high life, and funk rhythms, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria.
Afro beat is now one of the most recognisable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and poly rhythms. This particular music can be described as native African harmonies and rhythms, taking different elements and combining, modernizing and improvising upon them.Afro beat has profoundly influenced important contemporary producers and musicians.
Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti who used it to revolutionise musical structure as well as the political context in his native Nigeria. He was was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afro beat music, human rights activist, and political maverick. James Brown quoted him as one of the originators of funk.
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