Femi Kuti honors the memory of his father, Fela Kuti, and his Afrobeat legacy, but does not entirely follow in his footsteps.
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“Fela!,” a new dance musical that introduces U.S. audiences to Nigerian rabble-rouser and Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has been wowing critics, winning fans and testing modern-day ideas of what works on Broadway — even in tough economic times.
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Saycon Sengbloh Saycon Sengbloh, the national scholarship winner at the 1996 Donna Reed Festival for the Performing Arts, is co-starring this fall in “FELA!,” a Broadway production that uses Afrobeat music (a blend of jazz, funk and African rhythm and harmonies) to tell the story of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti’s controversial life as artist, political activist and revolutionary musician.
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