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	Fela Kuti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fela Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria to a middle-class family.
		Fela's response to the attack was to deliver his mother's coffin to an army barrack and write two songs, "Coffin for Head of State" and "Unknown Soldier," referencing the official inquiry which claimed the commune had been destroyed by an unknown soldier.
		Fela's main instruments were the saxophone and the keyboards but he also played the trumpet, horn, guitar and made the occasional drum solo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fela_Kuti (1582 words)

	Fela Kuti - Music Downloads - Online
		Impressed at what he read, Fela was politically revivified and decided that some changes were in order: first, the name of the band, as Koola Lobitos became Nigeria 70; second, the music would become more politically explicit and critical of the oppression of the powerless worldwide.
		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.
		Stylistically speaking, Fela's music didn't change much during this time, and much of what he recorded, while good, was not as blistering as some of the amazing music he made in the '70s.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/101/445/4/1014454.html (1056 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Fela Anikulapo Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Anikulapo Kuti, born in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1938, was a singer-composer, trumpet, sax and keyboard player, bandleader, and politician.
		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.
		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)

	Pot Culture \| 1938 - 1997 \| Fela Kuti
		Fela won a reputation for openly smoking marijuana, sleeping with large numbers of women, and dressing only in his underpants, but his influence on contemporary music cannot be over-estimated.
		Fela had the groove sense of James Brown and Prince's poise as an arranger; he was as articulate as Dylan, as charismatic as Bob Marley, and - for a time - as popular as any of those artists at their peak.
		Fela was born in 1938 in Abeokuta, a Yoruba town in western Nigeria about 50 miles north of the capital, Lagos.
	www.ukcia.org /potculture/70/Fela.html (1290 words)

	Fela Kuti (late) - Nigeria Arts.net - Home of Nigerian Arts on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born on the 18th of October, 1938 to the Kuti family of Egba in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti first cut his teeth in music when he shunned a career in medicine, the profession he had been expected to enter by his father, opting for music which he eventually studied while in England.
		Fela was a son of a reverend gentleman, but chose his own weird ways to express his music to his fans round the globe.
		Fela through the years has carved a niche for himself in the music industry, particularly in the Afrobeat genre of which he is generally accepted as Exponent.
	www.nigeria-arts.net /Music/Afrobeat/Fela_Kuti (311 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, previously Ransome-Kuti, was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1938.
		She introduced Fela to the philosophy and writings of Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver and other Black activists and thinkers, through which he was to become aware of the link existing between Black peoples all over the world.
		On countless occasions, Fela was to suffer the consequences of his scathing denunciations with arrests, imprisonment and beatings at the hands of authorities.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=1067 (2527 words)

	Fela Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the summer of 1997, Nigerian musician, politician, and spiritual leader Fela Kuti was scheduled to appear in London for the first time in five years.
		DJs are now doing something similar with Fela, namely sampling his seminal '70s work, producing tribute albums dedicated to his memory, and forging a new market for reissues of his seminal albums.
		He was ever-ready to smoke a joint, ever-ready to have sex." Kuti did campaign to legalize "natural grass," and at one point he was married to 28 women at once.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/99/05/13/FELA_KUTI.html (643 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)

	The My Hero Project - Fela Kuti
		Fela Anikupalo Kuti was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, on October 15, 1938.
		Fela educated himself on the politics of Nigeria and the African diaspora.
		Fela died in 1997, at the age of 58.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=felakuti (588 words)

	Nigeria: The revolutionary essence of Fela Kuti's music
		Fela's conclusions were, however, not clear on what should have been the true revolutionary alternative to the existing military dictatorships in Africa.
		Fela maintained that bleaching reflects a colonial mentality, however he reveals his inadequacies in not understanding the double exploitation of female members of the working populace, that is both gender discrimination (complete subordination to the male-folk) and class exploitation.
		Fela was not seen as the champion of one ethnic section of the country against the other, but rather as the mouthpiece of all the oppressed masses.
	www.marxist.com /nigeria-fela-kuti-music.htm (1732 words)

	fela kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, previously Ransome-Kuti, was born in Nigeria, in 1938.
		Fela music was as furious as his life — the rumble of thunder and the crack of lightning — layer upon layer of sublimely interwoven rhythm and melody, tangled in a delicious knot of divine inspiration.
		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.
	www.redbridgereview.co.uk /html/fela_kuti.html (1557 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)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| The big fela
		Fela's robotic stage moves had been copied by protesters in riots against the government; he was banned from Ghana for being 'liable to cause a breach of the peace' and this song provoked an attack on his new commune, named by Fela the Kalakuta ('Rascal') Republic.
		Fela claimed this was a traditional Yoruba ceremony, although some priests disputed this, pointing out that no bride prices were paid, and there is a suggestion that some sort of immigration scam was also involved.
		Fela claimed Aids was a 'white man's disease', but he caught the virus and died from complications on 2 August, 1997, at the age of 58.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1284327,00.html (3563 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best Best of Fela Kuti: Music: Fela Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Kuti is one of Nigeria's premier musicians and he has paved to road for Afro-pop music.
		Fela was (mentally) very involved with Nigerian politics and sung of the corruption and lack of leadership that plague the nation's government even today.
		Just as in Nigerian literature, Fela Kuti also sings of the nation's dislike of British colonialism, and the philosophy of the "white man's burden," which is the thought that other races are inferior to whites and that, through colonization and interaction, the whites can "educate" and culture the fls.
	www.amazon.com /Best-Fela-Kuti/dp/B00002ZZ2P (2201 words)

	Browse by Artist: KUTI, FELA
		In 1984, Fela was sentenced to 10 years of prison for marijuana possession charges.
		"Fela Kuti was often described as 'the James Brown of Africa,' but one could also argue that he was Africa's equivalent of Miles Davis or John Coltrane.
		Kuti was highly eclectic, and his innovative, visionary music contained elements of funk/soul, jazz, and blues, as well as African music.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/kuti.fela.html (1863 words)

	Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (1938-97) was a musical revolutionary who achieved a level of stardom in his native Nigeria barely imaginable.
		Today Fela's legacy is both sobering and inspirational, but his life and struggles are as relevant as ever.
		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 (867 words)

	Fela Ransome Kuti Discography - Joe Sixpack's African Music Guide
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti & The Africa 70 "Shuffering and Shimiling" (1977)
		Tony Allen was the much-revered drummer for Fela Kuti's legendary Africa 70 ensemble; as such he was largely responsible for crafting the relentlessly infectious, driving marathon beat of the Nigerian supergroup.
		The Fela Project is one of the most comprehensive Fela websites, aiming at being sort of a clearinghouse for all things Fela-rific.
	www.slipcue.com /music/international/africa/aa_artists/fela.html (1841 words)

	Kuti, Fela Anikulapo
		Fela dubbed this intensely rhythmic hybrid "Afro-beat," partly as critique of African performers whom he felt had turned their backs on their African musical roots in order to emulate current American pop music trends.
		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 that could last nearly an hour, was an intoxicating sound.
		Because his music addressed issues important to the Nigerian underclass (specifically a military government that profited from political exploitation and disenfranchisement), Fela was more than a simply a pop star; like Bob Marley in Jamiaca, he was the voice of Nigeria's have-nots, a cultural rebel.
	www.wrasserecords.com /artists/info/9.html (1008 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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)

	Fela R.I.P. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the Nigerian Afro-beat star and political activist, died of AIDS-related heart failure related to AIDS on August second.
		Fela was an African legend, a musician whose music reached far beyond his own environs and created a rare legacy of not only music, but rumor and speculation both within his own country and throughout the world.
		The legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will be debated for years.
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/fela.html (159 words)

	Fela Kuti Page in Fuller Up, Dead Musicians Directory
		Fela, one of the dominant superstars of African music in the 1970s and 1980s, recorded more than 50 albums.
		"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 News
		For close to three decades that Femi Kuti has been playing Afrobeat, he has never played on any stage in the Eastern part of Nigeria.
		Olayinka Oyebode Unknown to many Nigerians, the late Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, chastised his brother, Beko, in 1995 for leaking the General Sani Abacha junta's plan to secretly execute President...
		Fela fused music and politics to fight oppression.
	www.topix.net /who/fela-anikulapo-kuti (314 words)

	Fela Anikulapo Kuti
		Kuti is one of Africa's most revered names.
		In 1968 Kuti announced the arrival of Afro-beat, and within the year was taking his music on a 10-month tour of America where he became influenced by the new jazz movement at the time.
		However the military returned to power in 1983 and within the year Kuti was sentenced to five years imprisonment on a spurious currency smuggling charge.
	www.mboss.force9.co.uk /fela/index.htm (432 words)

	Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Ransome-Kuti and the Koola Lobitos (LP Nigeria, EMI PNL 1002)
		Fela Ransome-Kuti The Africa 70 (with Ginger Baker)
		Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and The Africa 70 with Roy Ayers
	biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp /~endo/EAFela.html (4873 words)

	Fela Kuti MP3 Downloads - Fela Kuti Music Downloads - Fela Kuti Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Fela Kuti MP3 Downloads - Fela Kuti Music Downloads - Fela Kuti Music Videos
		It's almost impossible to overstate the impact and importance of Fela Anikulapo (Ransome) Kuti (or just Fela as he's more commonly known) to the global musical village: producer, arranger, musician, political radical, outlaw.
		Portions of content provided by All Music Guide © 2005 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
	www.mp3.com /fela-kuti/artists/37953/biography.html (1116 words)

	Fela Kuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Original Suffer Head/I.T.T. Here is my humble attempt to create a website dedicated to Fela Kuti.
		I was recently introduced to Fela's music through the MCA reissues.
		But to my surprise, it was hard to find information on the internet.
	www.geocities.com /fela_kuti_2000 (83 words)

	Fela Kuti on Rhapsody (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The potent political and musical force embodied by Fela Kuti exploded onto the scene in the late 1960s with a driving rhythmic force that would...
		World/Reggae > Africa > Afrobeat > Fela Kuti
		Hear Fela Kuti and similar artists on this channel.
	www.rhapsody.com /felakuti (95 words)

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