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Known as “The Black President,” Fela Anikulapo Kuti began his career in the early ’60s playing music in clubs around West Africa and the UK. In the late ’60s, Fela encountered the American Black Power movement and American funk, both in the body of James Brown. Fela fused highlife and Brown’s hard-living funk to create Afrobeat, and he fused Pan-Africanism and Black Power with his music to become one of the most powerful musicians of all time. Afrobeat’s rhythms are dense and driving, with multiple different rhythms layering upon one another at once to provide both depth and constant motion. In class we dance to the groove from “Opposite People,” the original of which features lyrics in Fela’s Nigerian pidgin that focus on the growing class differentials in Nigerian society and how “opposite people” can defy the upper classes.

Our version of this track includes an extrapolation from another fela composition, "Egbe Mi O."

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from All Around This World: Africa (West, Central and South), released June 21, 2015
Country of Origin: Nigeria

Original Language: Pidgin English

Genre on CD: Afrobeat

Musicians:
Jon Natchez (U.S., Horns)
Jkriv (U.S., Bass)
Mark “Tewar” Twarson (U.S., Guitar)
Mona Kayhan (U.S., Vocals)
Sean Dixon (Drums)

Engineering: Amon, Studio Brooklyn, New York

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All Around This World is a unique, interactive music program for children 0-9 years old that encourages kids and their families to explore the world by enjoying great global melodies, rhythms and movement.

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