Chicago Afrobeat Project released What Goes Up with the 77-year-old co-founder of Afrobeat, drummer Tony Allen, a few months ago. Allen, born in Lagos, speaks about how he pioneered the genre in a hybrid live-action/animated short highlighting their intergenerational and cross-cultural collaboration.
77-year-old drummer Tony Allen, born in Lagos, tells the story of how Afrobeat was born.
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