“Afrobeats, from Nigeria to the world” retraces the socio-economic, historical and musical aspects of the biggest African phenomenon of these past 50 years.
Afrobeat is a multifaceted style of music initiated by Nigerian legend Fela Kuti. Today, the modern term Afrobeats, refers to a sound that has been adopted around the world and gained a ubiquitous presence on the radio, TV, social media and on the dancefloors of most nightclubs around the world.
Afrobeats has achieved mainstream success outside of Africa, with big names in the music industry such as Drake, Chris Brown, Alicia Keys, Jidenna, MHD, Booba, Maître Gims and Major Lazer collaborating with African superstars.
Apart from this, new generation key players such as Wizkid, D’Banj & Tiwa Savage are signing international record deals.
From Fela to KSA (King Sunny Ade) to 2Baba to Wizkid afrobeats have evolutionised and have been popularized on the global platform. With Wizkid performing at the 2018 edition of COACHELLA afrobeats is taking the world by storm.
Watch out for it.
