"Sometimes it’s better to not know each other as people first and just play," says Yannis Philippakis, one of the last musicians to get on the tools with the late Afrobeat pioneer, Tony Allen. (Photo ...
The people loved seeing an Englishman in Africa 70. They couldn’t believe it at first. Oyinbo (white man) drummer! They would come and press money on my forehead. It was a mark of approval. It would ...
Afrobeat traces its origin to 1920s Ghana, when traditional West African styles came together with jazz and other genres to create a new form of rhythmic and vocal expression. Identifiable for its ...
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