A Tale of Two Kutis
By Richard Gehr, eMusic Contributor
Born to different mothers in 1962 and 1982, respectively, afrobeat architect Fela Kuti's oldest and youngest sons, Femi and Seun, have upheld their late father's musical legacy in distinctly different ways. Femi has always sought to distinguish his music from Fela's by adding jazz and hip-hop ideas. And Sean, following Fela's death in 1997, assumed leadership of his father's longtime band, Egypt 80, and carried on. Like Fela, Femi and Seun serve up inflammatory pidgin-English rhetoric… more »