Other winners included Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Pee-Wee as Himself and Heated Rivalry. By Paul Grein Programs about influential musicians Sly Stone and Fela Kuti are among the 2026 Peabody Award winners ...

In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African pop star to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he ...

Amid growing speculation and online chatter over the fate of one of Africa’s most iconic musical legacies, Femi Kuti has firmly set the record straight, insisting that the catalogue of his legendary ...

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Obama did not hold back while showering praises on Fela in a new podcast released in honour of one of Nigeria’s greatest musicians of all time. Obama described the late Nigerian music icon as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three decades after his death, the “father of Afrobeat” Fela Kuti has made history by becoming the first African to get a Lifetime ...

According to Tejumola Olaniyan in Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, Fela once said of "My Lady Frustration" that it was "the first African tune" he had written, which is a strange ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Fela Kuti became the first African to be awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at the Grammys Special Merit Awards. He was honored posthumously on ...

Afrobeats singer Seun Kuti has cautioned Afrobeats artists against comparing themselves to his late father, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, saying sampling his music doesn’t make them equivalent to the legend.

In December, the late Nigerian superstar became the first African musician to get a Grammy lifetime achievement award. Now he ...