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Fela Kuti’s ‘Zombie’ Album Inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame

Nearly three decades after his passing, Fela Kuti's influence continues to resonate worldwide. His 1976 album 'Zombie' has been inducted into the 2025 Grammy Hall of Fame. The Recording Academy announced the honor earlier this week, acknowledging the album's enduring impact and its "lasting qualitative or historical significance" in music history. The Grammy Hall Of Fame was established by the Recording Academy in 1973 to honour recordings of lasting qualitative or […]

todayJune 13, 2025 10

Afrobeats

FELABRATION: Celebrating The Nigerian Legend!

FELABRATION is an annual festivation that was birthed by Yeni Annikulapo Kuti, the daughter of the Great Fela Annikulapo Kuti, a Human Right activist and pioneer of Afrobeats,  as a celebratory festival of Music and Art, also to keep his memories alive. It began in the year 1998 and has been consistently celebrated since. It’s a week long festival, it’s done on Fela’s birthday week and it entails musical performances from […]

todayOctober 9, 2024 57