Femi Kuti or Seun Kuti? Seun Kuti or Femi Kuti…? Legendary originator of Afrobeat, Nigerian “Black President” Fela Kuti, was father of many musical children, the most famous of whom are Femi and Seun. Both create music in their father’s image, but each with a different vibe; Femi, with his band Positive Force, uses an Afrobeat foundation as a launch pad for world fusion, while Seun, performing with many of the original members of his father’s Egypt 80, is Afrobeat to the core, continuing his father’s forward motion. Which works better for you, Femi or Seun…? It’s a trick question. You don’t have to choose.
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Afrobeat is the Best of the Best
Fela Kuti. There is no better….
I know I’m supposed to love all my children equally and not choose favorites, but I have an admission to make: my favorite genre of music in the whole entire world is the Nigerian-originated Afrobeat. I could go on and on (and on) about Afrobeat’s genius transoceanic fusion of the most electric African rhythms with the funkiest James Brown, the genre’s unabashed power — facing down actual dictators — not to mention the almost super-human bravery of the genre’s originator, Fela Kuti…okay, I’ll stop.
