A show celebrating the life and work of the funk-jazz Afrique composer, Fela Anikulapo Keti that originally featured on Broadway and won a handful of Lucille Lortel Awards in 2009. It's a provocative and wholly unique hybrid of dance, theatre and music. FELA! explores the extravagant, decadent and rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997). Using his pioneering music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies), FELA! reveals Kuti's controversial life as an artist and political activist.
The musical style performed by Fela Kuti is called Afrobeat, which is a complex fusion of Jazz, Funk (especially the music of James Brown), Ghanaian/Nigerian High-life, psychedelic rock, and traditional West African chants and rhythms.
Afrobeat also borrows heavily from the native "tinker pan" African-style percussion that Kuti acquired while studying in Ghana with Hugh Masakela, under the uncanny Hedzoleh Soundz.
More @
http://olivier.official-theatre.co.uk/london/fela
More @
http://olivier.official-theatre.co.uk/london/fela
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