AfroBeats: The New Sensation 🎶💃
Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a West African music genre, fusing
influences from Yoruba music and Ghanaian music with American funk,
jazz, and soul influences. With a focus on chanted vocals, complex
intersecting rhythms, and percussion, the style was pioneered in the
1960s by Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who
popularised it both within and outside Nigeria. At the height of his
popularity, he was referred to as one of Africa's most "challenging and
charismatic music performers.
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