The Birth of Afrobeat

Publisher:
Rest In Beats
Publication Date:
6 December 2017
Tags:
Africa, Music, United States, Canada and Africa

In September 2017, Chicago Afrobeat Project released their album "What Goes Up" with the 77-year-old co-founder of Afrobeat, drummer Tony Allen. Allen, born in Lagos, recounts how he pioneered the genre in this hybrid live-action/animated short highlighting their intergenerational and cross-cultural collaboration.

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