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Seun Kuti |
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| Biography | |
| Fela's youngest son, Seun Kuti started to play alto
sax and piano at about the age of 8 years
old, one year later he started in the great Fela Kuti's band Egypt80.
He started as a backing singer, alongside his mother Fehintola. He stayed with the band, and
well after Fela's death in 1997, he was ready to take over and now leads a 18 piece band,
of which most members are much older and have played with his father. Seun offers a younger version of his father's Afrobeat,
with songs criticising African leaders for violence, corruption, malaria, lack of infrastructure in Africa, stolen oil money...
Unlike his half-brother Femi Kuti who play "normal" pop music length songs,
the average song of Seun's debut album lasts at least 8 minutes. Seun played already at various summer festivals in Europe since 2005. In 2008, his first album « Many Things » reunite great musicians, such as Kayode Kuti on bass, Ajayi Adebiyi on drums, David Obanyedo and Alade Oluwagbemiga on guitar, Lekan Animashaun (sax), Rilwan Fagbemi "Showboy" (bariton sax), and great trumpet solists Emmanuel Kunnuji and Olugbade Okunade. The title song « Many Things » refers to (and starts with) a speech by president Obasanjo speaking of the many things he created for Nigeria such as building bridges, but Seun adds that underneath these bridges people drink water in which they wash and urinate. On « Mosquito Song » he sings about the devastating impact of malaria, causing more deaths than AIDS. His latest 2011 album « From Africa with Fury » has been co-produced by Brian Eno, John Reynolds and Seun Kuti himself. Born: 1982, as Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti Style: Afro-beat |
 Album cover 'Many Things' |
| Discography |
| Title | Year | Label | Remarks |
| From Africa with Fury: Rise! | 2011 | Knitting Factory Records | |
| Many Things | 2008 | Tôt ou Tard | Seun Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 |
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