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	African Music Encyclopedia: Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kuti was one of Africa's most controversial musicians and throughout his life he continued to fight for the rights of the common man (and woman) despite vilification, harassment, and even imprisonment by the government of Nigeria.
		Born to Yoruban parents, Kuti was strongly influenced by both parents, his mother being Funmilayo, a leading figure in the nationalist struggle.
		Fela was a man with great influence in the African music world, he is irreplaceable and his presence will be sorely misssed.
	africanmusic.org /artists/felakuti.html (485 words)

	Fela Kuti
		Fela Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria to a middle-class family.
		Fela also changed his middle name to "Anikulapo" (meaning "he who carries death in his pouch"), stating that his original middle name of Ransome was a slave name.
		Fela practiced polygamy, and the Kalakuta Republic was formed in part as a polygamist colony.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/f/fe/fela_kuti.html (1006 words)

	Fela Ransome Kuti Discography - Slipcue.Com e-zine African Music Guide
		Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Nigeria 70 "Wayo" (1970)
		Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Nigeria 70 "Shenshema" (1971)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and The Africa 70 "Shuffering and Shimiling" (1977)
	www.slipcue.com /music/international/africa/aa_artists/fela.html (1841 words)

	Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
		When Fela was 18, she introduced him to Kwame Nkrumah, Fela has since said that the experience 'changed his life'.
		Fela's message, that we should stop serving the whites, that we should develop our own fl resources instead, was a direct threat to this ruling class.
		Fela had come to challenge the system in short, and the system has always had its police ready to crush such challenges.
	www.thetalkingdrum.com /fela.html (2624 words)

	Fela Kuti Downloads :: calabashmusic.com
		Born in the Yoruba enclave Abeokuta to a wealthy family steeped in colonialism, Fela rebelled...
		Fela led his sprawling, 30-plus-piece afrobeat band---first called Africa 70, and later Egypt 80---through scathing broadsides against his government, international business and corrupt leaders all over.
		In 1977, during the army's second armed march on Fela's communal compound, 1,000 soldiers burned buildings and equipment, brutalized Fela's followers and musicians and threw his 84-year-old mother from a window, hastening her death.
	felakuti.calabashmusic.com (566 words)

	Reports of the death of Fela Anikulapo Kuti
		Fela's genius as a musician had an unmatched stellar power, may be an acute acoustic verve and caustic provocations to the powers that be.
		Fela was born in 1938 in Abeokuta, a Yoruba town in western Nigeria known as a haven for freed slaves.
		Fela, known across the continent by his first name, was one of the dominant superstars of African music in the 1970s and '80s and had recorded more than 50 albums.
	incolor.inetnebr.com /cvanpelt/Felaweb/deathreports.html (4322 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti, born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1938, was a singer-composer, trumpet, sax and keyboard player, bandleader, and politician.
		During this period Kuti developed his own unusual sound which he described as highlife-jazz.
		It had been rumoured for some time that Fela had a serious illness he was refusing treatment for, many said he was suffering from prostate cancer.
	www.africanmusic.org /artists/felakuti.html (485 words)

	Artist Fela Kuti
		Afrobeat's combination of blaring horn sections, antiphonal vocals, Fela's quasi-rapping pidgin English, and percolating guitars, all wrapped up in a smoldering groove (in the early days driven by the band's brilliant drummer Tony Allen) that could last nearly an hour, was an intoxicating sound.
		Fela suffered a fractured skull as well as other broken bones; his 82-year old mother was thrown from an upstairs window, inflicting injuries that would later prove fatal.
		Fela Ransome Kuti and Africa '70 with Ginger...
	digilander.libero.it /gianniv/music/htm/artist.fela_kuti.htm (1086 words)

	Wrasse Records Catalogue
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti : Monkey Banana/ Excuse O
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti : Koola Lobitos 64-68/ 1969 LA Sessions
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti : Live in Amsterdam 1983
	www.wrasserecords.com /catalogue.html (675 words)

	Fela Kuti (1938 - 1997)
		In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taling his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time.
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti, musician and political rebel, died of an Aids-related illness at his home in Nigeria on August 2 1997 at the age of 58.
		Fela's music has been refashioned and mixed together here according to the styles of the artists, rendering several of the 20 songs barely recognizable in comparison with the originals.
	www.jahsonic.com /FelaKuti.html (1827 words)

	Fela Anikulapo Kuti: Africaman Original by Carter Van Pelt
		Fela Ransome Kuti was born on October 15, 1938 and raised by a colonial Christian family of means in the town of Abeokuta, Nigeria.
		While Fela himself was not a sensational horn or keyboard player, his compositional skill and ability to assemble and direct crack musicians was the essence of his art.
		Fela's enormous appetite for life was both an essential part of his genius and a direct contributor to his decline.
	incolor.inetnebr.com /cvanpelt/Felaweb/africaman.html (4067 words)

	Kuti, Fela Anikulapo - Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This gave Fela the impetus to take on a more radical approach to his music and politics, affirming his afrocentricity, his sense of belonging to a pan-African community, and sharpening his critique of neo-colonialism.
		Fela went into exile in Ghana but was sent back to Nigeria due to his continued political activity.
		Fela's political project was essentially a critique of neo-colonialism coupled with a celebration of Afrocentricity.
	people.africadatabase.org /en/profile/2805.html (1270 words)

	Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-97) was a musical revolutionary who achieved a level of stardom in his native Nigeria barely imaginable.
		Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti is a critical multimedia exploration of the life and legacy of Fela, and the first museum exhibition of its kind.
		The artists do not all agree about Fela's legacy, philosophies, or actions, but they all have been influenced by his life and their work reflects, directly or indirectly, the many issues surrounding it.
	www.newmuseum.org /now_cur_fela.php (881 words)

	REMEMBERING FELA ANIKULAPO
		Fela's yabis (banter aimed at any topic imaginable) could either invoke joy or sadness to whomever it was directed at.
		Fela's definition of what goes on behind closed doors - when one is engaging in sexual intercourse.
		Fela's sarcasm on a possible reason for the love-hate relationship between the Nigerian military and himself.
	www.geocities.com /nkem4me/fela_quotes.htm (963 words)

	Realities AUFIO Search Results for Fela - 08/20/2003
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti and The Africa 70 - Gentleman
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti and The Africa 70 - Colonial Mentality
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti and The Africa 70 - Shuffering And Shmiling
	ausetkmt.com /fela1.html (424 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
		Nigerian pop superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died Aug. 2 of heart failure caused by AIDS.
		Earlier this year, Fela was in lock-down for marijuana possession; the year prior, his home was attacked by gunmen.
		A riveting performer, Kuti would prowl barefooted and scowling from one end of the stage to the other, attacking ITT one moment, laughing uproariously at his own shortcomings the next.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.28.97/fela-9735.html (301 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Fela Anikulapo Kuti
		Most of Fela's recorded pieces take up to an entire side of an LP, beginning slowly, with a lengthy electric piano and/or saxophone introduction (Fela plays both instruments) before breaking into exuberant horn fanfares, followed by call-and-response vocals between Fela and chorus and interlocking polyrhythmic percussion patterns.
		Fela's stock rose considerably when EMI released Fela's London Scene in 1970, leading to a friendship and collaboration with ex-Cream drummer Ginger Baker.
		Since 1974, Fela has been arrested several times for various crimes; during a particularly vigorous 1981 crackdown, a beating by soldiers left him temporarily incapable of playing saxophone.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=fela_anikulapo_kuti (490 words)

	Editorial - Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This issue is devoted to him and is designed to function as an extensive obituary, an homage to one of the most influential, critical and fearless personalities of the post-independence epoch.
		We are particulary indebted to Bayo Martins, the senior musician who participated in the burial ceremonies for Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and who, as the President of the Music Foundation of Nigeria Archives, had the event documented on videotape.
		Finally we want to point out that this journal in no way intends to be another ethnomusicological publication and therefore will not pose any threat to any existing and established periodicals.
	ietpd1.sowi.uni-mainz.de /~ntama/editorial/editorial1.html (1006 words)

	FELA KUTI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Fela's neighborhood became a hotbed of anti-government activity.
		Fela's 78-year-old mother was thrown from the second-story.
		Fela was not the same when he came out of prison.
	www.jaybabcock.com /fela.html (5682 words)

	Fela Kuti Page in Fuller Up, Dead Musicians Directory
		Kuti was born to middle-class parents and enjoyed a relatively
		"Fela was a prophet and an iconoclast to the core," says Rasheed Gbadamosi, a childhood friend of the singer, who knows well the power of the Fela name.
		The soilders fractured Fela's skull and broke several other of his bones.They threw his 82-year old mother from an upstairs window, inflicting wounds from which she later died,and injured other people as well.They set fire to the compound and prevented the fire brigade from reaching the site.The blaze
	elvispelvis.com /fela.htm (2797 words)

	fela anikulapo kuti - discographie
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Fela Ransome Kuti, Abeokuta, Nigeria, 1938-1997)
		Fela refuse et se retrouve confronté à des musiciens en grève.
		• Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and The Africa 70 : "Shuffering and Shmiling" (LP Nigeria, Coconut, 1977)
	www.djouls.com /fela (4815 words)

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