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Associated acts
  
Egypt 80

Origin
  
Name
  
Seun Kuti


Genres
  
Afrobeat

Role
  
Musician

Instruments
  
Saxophone, vocals

Cousins
  
Frances Kuboye

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Born
  
11 January 1983 (age 41) (
1983-01-11
)

Parents
  
Fela Kuti, Fehintola Anikulapo Kuti

Albums
  
A Long Way to the Beginning

Siblings
  
Femi Kuti, Yeni Kuti, Omosalewa Anikulapo Kuti, Motunrayo Anikulapo Kuti, Kunle Anikulapo Kuti, Sola Kuti

Similar People
  
Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, Funmilayo Ransome‑Kuti, Blitz the Ambassador, Mokobe

Profiles


Birth name
  
Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti

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Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983, Lagos, Nigeria ), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, and the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80.

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Biography

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Seun and his brother Femi are the two commercially successful musical offspring of the late Nigerian afrobeat innovator Fela Kuti. Seun has one younger sister who used to sing in his band. At the age of nine Seun expressed the wish to sing to his father. A short while later Seun started performing with his father and the band. Since then, Seun has followed the political and social ethos of his father.

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After Fela had died in 1997, Seun, then only 14 years old, became the lead singer of Egypt 80. While in school Seun had to choose between a career in music and one in African Football. His 2008 debut album, Many Things, was produced by Martin Meissonnier, who had already produced two albums for his father.

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About three quarters of the current Egypt 80 line-up consists of musicians that not only played with Fela Kuti, but often were arrested and harassed alongside the founder of the Afrobeat movement. Live sets consist of both new material and originals from Seun’s father. Since during his lifetime, Fela Kuti had never performed any songs live on stage which he had recorded in the studio, this is the first chance for many long-time fans to enjoy classics like Shuffering and Shmiling, Colonial Mentality and Army Arrangement in a live setting. A new studio album called From Africa with Fury: Rise was released on 5 April 2011. It was recorded in London, produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun himself.

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Seun Kuti is featured in Calle 13's song "Todo se mueve" (Everything Moves), on their 2010 album Entren los que quieran.

He participated actively in the Occupy Nigeria protests against the fuel subsidy removal policy of President Goodluck Jonathan in his native Nigeria, in January 2012. Seun Kuti is an atheist.

Seun and girlfriend Yetunde George Ademiluyi welcomed a baby girl on 16 December 2013 and named her Ifafunmike Adara Anikulapo-kuti.

In 2014, Seun Kuti was given an honorary invitation to perform live for the first time at the Industry Nite.

Discography

  • Think Africa (12", 2007)
  • Many Things (CD & LP album, 2008, Tôt ou Tard)
  • Many Things (CD & LP album, 2008, Disorient Records)
  • From Africa With Fury: Rise (2011, Knitting Factory Records/Because Music)
  • A Long Way To the Beginning (2014, Knitting Factory Records)
  • Struggle Sounds (EP, 2016, Sony Masterworks)
  • References

    Seun Kuti Wikipedia


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