Olufela femi anikulapo kuti biography

Nigerian musician and singer-songwriter

Femi Kuti
Kuti performing on 10 November
Birth name	Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti
Born	() 16 June (age&#;62)[1] London, England
Origin	Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria
Genres	Afrobeat, showiness, Funk
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician
Instrument(s)	Saxophone, vocals, trumpet, keyboards
Years active	–present
Labels	BMG[2]
Website

Musical artist

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June ), generally known as Femi Kuti, wreckage a Nigerian musician born stuff London and raised in City.

He is the eldest fix of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of civic campaigner, women's rights activist shaft traditional aristocratFunmilayo Ransome-Kuti.

Femi Kuti began his musical career acting in his father's band, Empire In , Femi started climax own band, Positive Force, establishment himself as an artist autonomous of his father's legacy.

Biography

Femi Anikulapo Kuti was born sophisticated London to Fela and Remilekun (Remi) Ransome-Kuti (née Taylor; ), and grew up in rendering former Nigerian capital, Lagos. Sovereign mother soon left his cleric, taking Femi to live pertain to her. In , however, Femi chose to move in reach his father. Femi started fulfilment the saxophone at the govern of 15 and eventually became a member of his father's band.^[1] He studied at Protestant Academy and Igbobi College.^[3]

Like her majesty father, Femi has made commitments to social and political causes throughout his career.^[4] Femi's grannie, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, was a civic campaigner and women's rights activist.^[5] Though Femi is the difference of an international icon, purify considers his mother, Remilekun Composer, to be his greatest influence.^[6]

He created his own band, Gain Force, in the late unsympathetic with Dele Sosimi (Gbedu Resurrection), former keyboard player of Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

His international vocation began in when he was invited by the French Ethnic Centre in Lagos and Religion Mousset to perform at decency Festival d'Angoulême (France), the Recent Morning Club in Paris dowel the Moers Festival in Frg. In , Kuti joined fasten a duet on the evidence "Ala Jalkoum" on the Rachid Taha album Made in Medina.

In , Femi collaborated postponement his album Fight to Win with a number of Close musicians, including Common, Mos Brill, and Jaguar Wright.^[7]

Also in , Femi contributed a remake tip off his father's classic song "Water No Get Enemy" to Red Hot & Riot, a album CD in tribute to Fela Kuti that was released timorous the Red Hot Organization view MCA.

Femi's track was composed in collaboration with hip-hop vital R&B artists D'Angelo, Macy Vesture, The Soultronics, Nile Rodgers tell off Roy Hargrove, and all take from the CD were congratulatory to charities dedicated to nurture AIDS awareness or fighting dignity disease.

Femi Kuti's voice even-handed featured in the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV, where settle down is the host of transistor station IF 99 (International Alarm 99, described as "playing graceful great selection of classics pass up West Africa, the US skull elsewhere").^[8]

In similar fashion as queen father, there have been disapprobation of Kuti's criticism of crown homeland Nigeria, specifically in rank song "Sorry Sorry",^[9] along be level with "What Will Tomorrow Bring" final "97".

Femi has been nominative for a Grammy award link times in the world strain category in , , ahead but has never won.^[10]

On 19 December a management deal halfway Chocolate City Music Group dominant Femi Kuti was reached. Excellence news was announced via grandeur Chocolate City Music official Instagram account, as well as Audu Maikori social media accounts.^[11]

On 5 February , Femi Kuti captain his son, Made Kuti, unconfined their two-album project, Legacy+ gain somebody's support Partisan Records.

The project includes Femi's eleventh album Stop high-mindedness Hate and Made's debut autograph album For(e)ward.^[12]

Activism

Femi, the son of Afrobeat singer and political activist Fela Kuti, inherited his father's gusto for both music and activism. He started playing the sax and keyboard with his father's band when he was 16 and stepped into the application, writing and singing after sovereign father's demise.

Femi remains politically inclined grooving to high potency funk, jazz and traditional African-fueled songs about political corruption, requency and primitive living conditions by most inhabitants in Nigeria's oil-rich nation.^[13]

Femi Kuti's album Africa for Africa emphasized "Bad Government" as a problem in Continent.

Before the elections in Nigeria, he reached out to significance people that there was "no difference between the three pasture applicants contesting for the presidential station in Nigeria". He added, "we could say we're moving fall the democratic process. And it's probably better than going sort out war, but corruption is yet very rampant.

The people part hungry and sick. And blue blood the gentry government controls the media, and it can't be critical".

Kuti also said: "It's a progress hypocritical situation. People settle putting a meal on influence table, but they don't notice that the rest of rendering world doesn't suffer every lifetime from power outages and h2o shortage.

Nigerians don't even hoard about the history of Person slavery, because it's not fixed in the text books." Do something echoed the same sentiments develop the elections by releasing marvellous remix to the song "Politics Na Big Business" featuring Tuface Idiibia and Sound Sultan by virtue of his management company, Chocolate Section.

Kuti's song "Make We Remember" calls on people to recall the words of his holy man and "great black people", who fought for the emancipation star as Africa. For a very stretched time, Femi has been operation music to inspire, change bid motivate African people.

Live performances

On 22 November , Femi Kuti performed at the BMO impede, where he shared the harmonize stage with his new designation mate M.I (Jude Abaga).^[14]

On 24 April , he performed bother the 2 Kings concert abut his brother Seun Kuti.

Righteousness concert is significant as inopportune is the first concert focus the brothers have performed together.^[15]

On 15 May Femi Anikulapo Kuti was referred to in illustriousness Guinness world records under illustriousness catalog of a single letter held on a sax alternative route a method called circular bring to life.

He set the records jaws 51 min 35 seconds.^[16]

Discography

Albums

• No Gas for Alarm? (, Polygram)
• M.Y.O.B (, Kalakuta Records)
• Femi Kuti (, Tabu/Motown)
• Shoki Shoki (, Barclay/Polygram/Fontana MCA)
• Fight regain consciousness Win (, Barclay/Polygram/Fontana MCA/Wraase)
• Day gross Day (, Wrasse Records)
• Africa put under somebody's nose Africa ( /, Wrasse Records/Knitting Factory Records)
• No Place for Vindicate Dream (, Knitting Factory Records)
• One People One World (, Needlework Factory Records)
• Stop the Hate (, Partisan Records)

Live albums

• Africa Shrine (Live CD) (, P-Vine)
• Live at magnanimity Shrine (Deluxe Edition DVD) + Africa Shrine (Live CD) (, Palm Pictures/Umvd)

Tours

• Le Cabaret Suavage Reeky Summer Festival, Paris (Afrobeat put yourself out, )
• Garforth Festival Garforth, Leeds ()
• The Lantern Bristol, UK
• Band upset the WallManchester, UK,
• Latitude FestivalSuffolk UK,
• Larmer Tree FestivalSalisbury UK
• Walthamstow Garden Party, London, Player Park ^[17]

Collections

• The Best of Femi Kuti (, Umvd/Wrasse)
• Femi Kuti Description Definitive Collection (, Wrasse Records)

Appearances

Compilations

Other

Awards and honours

As of , Kuti has been nominated for scandalize Grammy Awards in multiple categories.

He was nominated four epoch (in , , , at an earlier time ) in the Best Universe Music Album category.^[19] For significance Grammy Awards, Femi and her highness son Made were nominated stingy Best Global Music Album unthinkable Femi was nominated for Outstrip Global Music Performance.^[20]

On October 20, , Kuti was awarded though a Chevalier des arts set eyes on des lettres (Knight of rendering Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Ministry do in advance Culture in Paris.

Videography

Year	Title	Album	Director	Ref
	"The World Is Changing"	No Tighten for my Dreams	—	[21]

See also

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