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Fela Kuti, or homem that cunhou or thermo afrobeat to designate or genre of music that fazia com or group Africa ’70, said that, to drummer of Tony Allen, who was also the musical director of the band, or afrobeat never existed. Or Nigerian Allen, who continued to play or his instrument attached now, lived this fifth day in Paris, France, the country where he lived since the 1980s. Tinha 79 years. A notícia foi Avançada Pelo news site about Africa Sahara Reporters e meanwhile confirmed pela Rolling Stone, who said that because it causes death ainda não é conhecida.
Born in Lagos, Nigéria, in 1939, Allen was self-taught, having tended to play drums for 18 years, influenced by Max Roach’s jazz music and Art Blakey’s and Afro-jazz by Ganiano Kofi Ghanaba. Foi isso que fez mesmo I tied or fim. Tinha finished lançar Rejoice, a new album with Hugh Masekela, or a South African trumpeter who died in Janeiro.
In collaboration with Kuti, who started in the 1960s, he became the first jazz band Koola Lobitos, and came from Africa ’70, two years after 1979, including 30 discs, including Zombie, from 1976, ou Gentleman, from 1973. A drum kit of essential music in the polyrhythmic breeding of funk, jazz, Nigerian rhythms and highlife que é o afrobeat.
Allen came to a career just after two years in 1970, and in the last few years he has collaborated a lot with Damon Albarn, from Blur e Gorillaz, in particular not a supergroup. The Good, the Bad & the Queen, next to Paul Simonon, two Clash, and Simon Tong, two Verve, whose last album was in 2018.
Numa interviews Opsilon in 2002, when he released the solo album Home Cooking, disse: “I had afrobeat. ‘Fusion’. I play different patterns, but I don’t know how to touch anything that doesn’t look afrobeat. Not once I was too overly directed, I decided to pay off all people. It was necessary to modernize or afrobeat, always trying new directions. I do not want my album to find any hair except a subject of which gostem, especially as nova gerações. São eles that we bought the records. “
Ao longo da sua duradoura e eclectica carreira, which reflected that vontade of being modernized at all times, also included such names as King Sunny Adé, Manu Dibango (another recently deceased musician), Ray Lema, Jimi Tenor, Ty, Ernest Ranglin, Sébastien Tellier, Charlote Gainsbourg, Jarvis Cocker, Air, Flea, Moritz Von Oswald ou Jeff Mills, beside who performed not last year at Casa da Música, not Porto, among many others.
Allen performed in Lisbon in 2017, no Lisb-On Jardim Sonoro, festival to which it was supposed to return in September of this year. It also has a performance originally marked for May 26 of the Teatro da Trindade.
