Seun Kuti

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Black Times 00:00 Tools
African Soldier 00:00 Tools
Think Africa 00:00 Tools
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African Dreams 00:00 Tools
You Can Run 00:00 Tools
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Mr. Big Thief 00:00 Tools
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Bad Man Lighter (B.M.L.) 00:00 Tools
Slave Masters 00:00 Tools
The Good Leaf 00:00 Tools
Theory of Goat and Yam 00:00 Tools
IMF (Robert Glasper Remix) (feat. Christian Scott & Robert Glasper) 00:00 Tools
For Dem Eye 00:00 Tools
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Higher Consciousness 00:00 Tools
For Them Eye 00:00 Tools
African Airways 00:00 Tools
Gimme My Vote Back (C.P.C.D.) 00:00 Tools
Kalakuta Boy 00:00 Tools
Black Woman 00:00 Tools
Ohun Aiye 00:00 Tools
Announcement 00:00 Tools
African Smoke 00:00 Tools
Kalakuta show 00:00 Tools
Think Africa - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
Colomentality 00:00 Tools
Na Oil - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
Think Africa - Bonus Beats 00:00 Tools
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Think Africa 12 Inch - Long Version 00:00 Tools
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Higher Consciousness (Simbad Remix) 00:00 Tools
Na Oil - Bonus Beats 00:00 Tools
Black Times (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Na Oil Long - 12 Inch 00:00 Tools
Think Africa (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Black Times - Night Dreamer D2D Version 00:00 Tools
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African Soldiers 00:00 Tools
Kalakuta Boy (The Reflex Dub Remix) 00:00 Tools
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Beasts of No Nation - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
06 Na Oil 00:00 Tools
You Can Run (Falty DL Remix) 00:00 Tools
Beasts of No Nation (Leeroy Presents Fela Is the Future) 00:00 Tools
04 Fire Dance 00:00 Tools
05 Mosquito Song 00:00 Tools
Don’t Give That Shit to Me 00:00 Tools
Black Woman (Krazy Baldhead Remix) 00:00 Tools
07 African Problems 00:00 Tools
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You Can Run (FaltyDL Remix) 00:00 Tools
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Think Africa (Bonus Beats) 00:00 Tools
Black Woman - Krazy Baldhead Remix 00:00 Tools
Bad Man Lighter BML - Night Dreamer D2D Version 00:00 Tools
Rise (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Higher Consciousness - Remix by Simbad 00:00 Tools
Seun Anikulapo Kuti - World People 01 00:00 Tools
Higher Consciousness (Dancehall Qmillion Remix) (feat. Everton E-Dee Dennis) 00:00 Tools
Black Woman ft. Nneka 00:00 Tools
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Na Oil (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
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Think Africa 12 inch (long version) 00:00 Tools
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World People 01 00:00 Tools
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For Dem Eye (Ron Trent Juju Remix) 00:00 Tools
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Black Woman (Rich Medina Afro Stepper Remix) 00:00 Tools
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Fire Dance - 108 00:00 Tools
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African Problem 00:00 Tools
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Many Things (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
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For Them Eyes 00:00 Tools
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Seun Kuti is the youngest son of the famous Nigerian afro-beat musician Fela Kuti. Seun started learning to play saxophone when he was eight, which is also when he started taking piano lessons. Seun Kuti has been performing on stage since he was nine years old. He started his career as opening act with his father’s band, Egypt 80. And he still performs today with the same band. Apart from the new young bass player Kayode, Seun is probably the youngest person on stage. Most of the band members performed with Fela, and some look to now be in their fifties and sixties. Performing on stage with as many as twenty singers and musicians in regular sessions that sometimes go on all night was such an effective practical education that when Fela died in 1997, Seun, then just fifteen, was ready to take over. Since then, he has led Egypt 80 as lead vocalist and saxophonist, the focal point of a band that his father had forged into one of Africa’s most legendary ensembles. While Seun is the front man, a star in his own right who is routinely recognized by fans on the streets of Lagos, in many ways Egypt 80 is still his father’s band. In performance, Seun comes across as a perfect stand-in for his famous Father but also stays very personal. His singing voice is deep like Fela’s, and his alto saxophone hits the lines and hooks his father composed with the same muscular style, although he tries to bring his own flavor to the obligatory solos on saxophone and synthesizer. And like Fela, on stage Seun lives up to a reputation as a sex symbol, shimmying, winding his hips and often discarding his shirt, to the delight of lady fans. Fela’s Afrobeat was a pungent blend of funk and jazz with an African sensibility, reminiscent of James Brown but grittier, nastier and vaguely unsettling, like fermenting fruit. With Seun, Egypt 80 is as explosive as they were under Fela, combining horns, keyboards, percussion, guitars and vocals in a sophisticated and overpowering blend that is always insistent. In the 70s the band performed almost nightly at The Shrine, a club Fela established, but these days they rehearse once a week and play three or four times a month at various venues around Lagos, sometimes in huge stadiums alongside other artists. The band also tours regularly in Europe, they already hit France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, UK, Belgium, but also South Africa, Ghana… Seun was literally born to do this, and seems unconcerned by the constant comparisons to his father. For Seun, taking up where his father left off is about building on Fela’s legacy, not trying to escape it. He wrote a song on Malaria disease for a festival in Dakar where he jammed with Manu Dibango and Tony Allen for the BBC film « Africa Live : the RollBack Malaria concert» sponsored by the UN fundation that has been bradcasted around the whole world. "If I’m in my father’s shadow then it doesn’t trouble me to be," he says. "If that’s all I can get, it’s a very good place to be. He was a very great man." He pauses. "But of course every artist wants to define themselves." Seun says he and his father were close, and Fela’s death at the age of 58 hit the teenager hard. Fela had other children by other women, but took a special interest in Seun, who is one of only two sons to follow their father into a career in music. But having inherited the leadership of Fela’s band, Seun can be more selective about what else he chooses to take from the example of Fela’s life. In artistic terms he is also determined to chart his own course. Seun has just finished to record two original tracks, « Think Africa » and Fire Dance » to be soon released in Vynil 12 inches and on I Tunes in order to innovate his own style. Seun also wants to update his father’s political message. He heartily endorses Fela’s politics ("He wasn’t afraid," Seun says proudly) and relishes the fact that many of the songs he performs pillory by name Nigeria’s current president, Olusegun Obasanjo (who was also head of state in the mid-1970s when Fela recorded some of his most biting broadsides, including a track blaming Obasanjo for his mother’s death in an infamous army raid on Fela’s Kalakuta compound). But right now Seun seems unlikely to form a political party, as his father did in the late 70s. And Seun hopes to offer his listeners a slightly different message from his father’s. "I want to make Afrobeat for my generation. Instead of ‘get up and fight,’ it’s going to be ‘get up and think,’" he says. Seun once said "I have to play my father’s songs until I’m ready." With an album of his own creations in the works, presumably he’s finally set to stake his own musical claim instead of trading on his father’s name. In so doing, perhaps he can muster the kind of iconic voice and presence that made Fela one of his generation’s most politically influential cultural artists. It’s already clear that Seun’s name and music resonate with a new generation of Nigerians, many of whom are too young to remember his father’s heyday. No, it can’t be easy to be a leader to the teeming, aggressive and often undisciplined legions of Nigeria’s youth. But maybe Seun Kuti is one man for the job. Seun Kuti just like his father, the late Fela Kuti , represents a minority of thinkers. Those who choose to question the ruling bodies, those who strive for quality of life and those who are not afraid to shine a light on the corruption that sprawls behind closed government doors. He represents a generation who act upon these thoughts and voice the truth. He does so without weapons, brutality and political agendas. He does so through music. And that music is Afrobeat. A fusion of big band jazz, funk, and traditional African sounds. Fela left behind two things he treasured most. Afrobeat: the musical style he pioneered and his band, Egypt 80. Seun chose to continue the legacy of his father by taking on the band, in partnership with its longstanding bandleader, Baba Ani. With Seun deemed lead singer, the band is a twenty-piece power house. Much of the magic of their live shows derives from the energetic exchange between musicians and dancers. It is hard to imagine that the leader, able to emulate his father’s songs and style with such grace, is a mere 24 years old and his sister, Motunrayo Kuti, still one of the most vibrant dancers on stage. Bearing his Dad’s looks, Seun is a great saxophonist, an activist and groovewriter. He promises a serious funk mix of new album material and Fela classics which won’t let you stand still. The band is a power-house of explosive dance grooves, the hookiest basslines, big spectacle and politicised energy. Much of the magic of their live shows derives from the energetic exchange between at least 18 musicians and dancers. It's a full-on, funk-happy sound that'll take you to the edge and back... http://www.myspace.com/seunkuti Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.