Fela Kuti - Lady
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2015
- Lady (1972) Fela Kuti
From the LP Shakara (CD release 1997)
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#fela #kuti #felakuti #afrobeat #Nigeria #lady
She go say, she go say, "I be lady, oh"
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Everybody say "Yeah Yeah" (y)
Fela Kuti yeah yeah!
Remember
Yeah! Yeah!
Fela Kuti a révolutionné la musique africaine.
Fela Kuti water on get enemy
I'm a South African boy from the Zulu clan who just found out about the Legendary Fela Kuti and I have to say, he probably has to be the best musician ever. He managed to touch hearts with his sound under horrifying times. He still touches my heart and I'm only 22 years of age. His music is something I will be proud to passing on to my children. May his soul rest in power
In 1972 us kids in New Zealand were listening to UK-based Osibisa - but when I hear FELA I suddenly understood where the Osibisa sound came from. Terrific music. Fela Kuti is the pioneer. Victor, I hope your future opens up bright for you.
Thank You Young Lion, you are OUR Future, 👍🏾👊🏾✌🏾🇳🇬🇺🇸
Im glad to a fellow South African listening to Fela, much love brother from Cape Town
Already thinking of making babies at 22?
@@shavhaniradzilani6982 ;-)
Who's still enjoying this masterpiece in 2020? They don't make them like Fela Kuti any more!!!
No, they do not cos it is impossible to replicate his work. Each song was a masterpiece that could not and cannot be copied.
@@eniaofe9853
So right. I was hoping that today could produce musicians of his caliber.
Thank you for enlighteningng me. Stay blessed!!
I'm here
@@oseemma2838
Glad you're enjoying such quality music.
Speaking as a 26 year old white boy in Kentucky, true music like this sails over the false walls that separate us. Truly, the fierceness of the spirit has been lost, my friends. Thank you for this sanctuary.
Liqht Raise yup love from Ghana
How can we have borders when the skies are open from Moscow to Nairobi to Sydney to.... you name it.
We created the walls ourselves.
ollo oduk absolutely right
ollo oduk The false walls will "fall" one day.
I did some training with US military personnel and a divorced guy complained bitterly about feminist ladies (especially his ex),just what Fela was singing about.
The first Yoruba person to actually challenge Nigerian government without seeking foreign supports or running away. O seun omo Akin!!!
As an African woman, Fela made me proud! I'm a WOMAN!
I was listening to Nduh Okoh on SpiceFM in Kenya and referred to her as a 9ja lady, and an hour later this song entered my mind and I just started laughing 😂 when the line "she go say I no be woman! She go say market woman na woman!" 😂😂😂 love it!!! I had not thought of it for a number of years!
Don’t ask if anyone is here in 2024, we never left 🤝🏽🙌🏽
Estamos aqui ❤
Indeed! We've not left. The songs were gloriusly long. Just like the other Congo maestro Franco. Long and satisfying
Still here , 07 / 2024
Nigerian legend proud to be Nigerian 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
I'm a south african man who has been raised constantly being exposed to fela. I will forever cherish his music ❤️🇿🇦🎶🙏2020
Where in RSA are you from
the man who invented the whole genre. LEGEND!!
Missing my dad who died 20 years ago, this was the music he loved and played in our home!
May his soul Rest in Peace. Make him proud by doing what he expected of you cos our actions, based on the expectations of the deceased, are the only way we can honour them. Good luck sis.
Same here
All the way from South Africa, KZN rural. I was introduced to Fela's music by a Zimbabwean friend of mine. Nigeria 🇳🇬 you should be proud, this man inspired a generation. Shout out to the legendary 🙌🏿 🙏🏿 👊🏿💪🏿
Growing up in the city of Lagos in the 90s, I always wondered at the mind this departed legend had that he could withstand soldiers' harassment, oppression, and torture just because of singing. He is indeed a prophet who foretells present-day conditions. African isn't yet free.
i saw him in amsterdam in the 80s i paid my respect on his tumb in Lagos in the 90s i am crying listening to him in paris in October 2018 he make me fight against injustice in Ghana and the whole world where the word INJUSTICE means something in the 80s,90s and 20s i never tell the finish RIP MR.FELA
Black power😄
Arguably Africa's greatest musician
well, I could "argue" about that but I won't..... as there are SO MANY great great great African musicians out there..(Hugh Masakela etc etc etc)...but you can say this for sure...he was ONE of the greatest of all time...and also one of the greatest musicians in the entire world, of all time....not just Africa.....
This song cemented fela as an unapologetic African man.
I cannot believe this track! I was born in 1980 and this song was done in 1972 some 47 years ago and still rocks! This Fela Kuti song is the torch bearer of Afro jazz. Beautiful song eternally in our ears
glad you have such good taste in music, my Brother....Fella was a musical genius beyond all.... he was so far ahead of everyone else...only now, the world is beginning to catch up t o him...
I was born in 1989 and I love this song! It's literally perfect.
I was in the Bahamas in January 1969 & i bought this albumn(12 inch disc) then at a music shop in Abaco,together with several others.Mano Do bango,Hugh Masekela & other African musicians was 28 then I'm almost 82 now, & still can enjoy this music today.
Enlève ta cravate de président avant de parler de musique stp!!!
Good, brother...
I cant believe all my life I've been missing out on such BRILLIANT music. Better late than never
You should watch his documentary that Jay zee put together on Netflix
Shame on you! Cheers! ;)
I am from Bosnia, who cares, it is 2020. who cares. Do I feel this? Yes! That’s why I am here.
Greetings... a Guatemalan native here. I had the blessing of finding his music in 1996 and 25+ years later this music sounds even better after many years more under my belt.
True
Long live Fela Kutism, freedom fighter and an independent mind.
Cameroonian here all the way from Dallas-USA.... can't get enough of this. OMG this is REAL music that makes 14 minutes feel like 4 minutes. Long Live the F.R. of Nigeria !!!
Orthographe please.
Cameroonian too love his music since im 9 yes,🤭
Completely agree with you boy
Fela was so powerful, they couldn't contain him. His music spoke to the oppressed, inspired and the awakened. l love Fela and his music!
Not was...Is. fela is Alive
A song made in the 70’s still attacking issues of today. What a legend RIP Fela Kuti
fela was ahead of his time and thats why Nigerian politicians, military and police could not understand him. First heard this song 1979 kitwe chimwemwe Zambia. still playing it in 2017. love sound of those elephants (trumpets).
Nduba Namoonde To be honest my brother it is everywhere in Africa when u r ahead of politicians army government they tend to kill you
could not understand ? they understood him quite well and that's the reason they kept attacking him. he constantly exposed them and said the things others were scared to say !
Exactly. No one can beat the system, except through enlightenment, expression and music. Fela was a real man, of likes we see very few of these days, but he chose to fight the entire system which this world is sadly based on. Ignore the idiots, laugh at them even when they steal all your food.
@@osabuoheinogbebor9563 so true, The army beat him up bad, broke all his musical instruments, and thew his own mom off a rooftop, because he spoke out against them...they understood his message VERY CLEARLY.....that is why they almost killed him...
@@melkitante8180 It's everywhere in the world!
It is so sad that Africans and Nigerians especially do not recognise their Legends and Heros. But we are proud to erect statues of Foreigners and name our important streets after them. While Fela is still not even given the status that befits him. Fela is still the best ambassador to have come out of Nigeria. The Nigerian youths have not forgotten and will never forget you Baba Fela Anikulapo ransomkuti because you still are a great source of inspiration and an Idol. You were there for the oppressed and down troden, that is still going on today in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. One day, we will name our best after you. Continue to rest in peace.
WELL SAID... THX!!!
U talk correct!!!
Nigeria is not a "nation" and therefore it is impossible to acknowledge heroes. Sorry
fela has a museum shrine and his sons are keeping the legacy alive seun kuti is reincarnation of fela politically and social justice wise
First of all, get your wording right. Nigeria is in Afreeka and not separate, One Alkebuland-Afreeka continent, with 54 countries... Thanks
This song has me so emotional because I can imagine during his time with so much British influence how African women would have tried acting white and how Africans in general look down on their culture till today. I’m glad he spoke against it
You couldn't have said it better. He wouldn't be Fela if he didn't say something about it.
You right King we have lost every thing from our Culture to our Woman and every thing just because of hardship and our so Call Bad leaders
You are blasting yourself, you dey bleach. Yellow fever, listen to that one.
@@sherwoodguernsey402 shut your fuck up
@@sherwoodguernsey402 ewo
I just discovered his music 3 days ago. I'm about to go on a journey
!!!Tony Allen!!!..."your heart still beats in Heaven as your drumbeats still heats up our haven"...love eternal...Tony Allen 12/08/40 - 30/04/20
🙏🏽
Death is at its weakest when faced with this level of spiritual greatness, because Fela continues to live and inspire. Fela is us.
Great music never goes stale. Like old wine, the older it gets, the sweeter!
ahhh true my Brother....the BEST ....will always be the BEST....all through the ages of time....
A fervent lesson in musical reproduction . Do not go to the studio or laboratory and jumble up some fabrication or concoction in a hurry . It would not last the test of time . Of course you have to have talent . Which is the first and paramount requisite for excellence in all branches of the arts . Since its release in 1973, when l was about 14 years old, l have been thrilled by this exilarating album, sides A and B . Now at 61 years of age, the effect still outstandingly revererberates all over my body and soul with a chilling shiver and great sensation. The sound and instrumental arrangement high in measure, sonorous rendition on the alto 🎷 solo by FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI himself, juicy rhythm guitar, and of course, deep bass, rounded up by tight percussion mix of african and standard 🥁 drum sets . Just irresistible to your feet . LADY .
Yes! No computer generated stuff. He is there cranking out those sounds just playing the instruments. This is y this music cannot be replicated nor sampled. It is just way too original.
The alto sax solo was by a great saxophonist named IGO CHICO, Conrad Sunkiojack, man. Fela couldn't do that. His feelings on sax were like his aggressive opposition to oppression, very harsh, ear-grating stuff. Chico - Lord bless his departed soul - was the master of subtle melody on sax. Respect to Chico!
Precisely!
Growing up In Nigeria as a Teenager I listened to Fela with My Older Brothers, Now in my 50's I am still enjoying the songs and my Teenage Son has discovered it. I can see his children enjoying it one day. Truly everlasting.
For me, this is freedom fighter who should be listened to forever.
Shout out to those still listening to Fela in 2023
Right here with you...🙂
2024 ingolstadt Deutschland.
2024
Thank 💯💯💯💯🔥💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯🔥2024
Let's H2O 🎉❤😂😅😊😊😮🎉
Fela was blessed with great drummers, great bass players, great women backers....but we are all blessed by him.
I'm a typical African woman and proud of my heritage.
There is NOTHING typical about an African woman... You are the creator of many nations. You go girl!!!!
Africans women not agree.
My father died in 2013 and i found a DC of Fela. After listening, i understand now why my father was a fan . Great music, great artist
This album ,SHAKARA" was how the love of Afro Beat started.
Pioneer of Afro beats
I'm from Kenya and I have always loved this song....it's 46 years since it was released....still this good in 2018
hongera
Si Uongo!
Good music #kenyainthehouse
timeless is the masterpiece of musical genius....
There is just no other music like this.....HMMMM and he is gone.
I've heard fela's lady for the first time in spring 1977. I was "bewitched" by its rhythm. I'm now 65 years old, and I listen to it usualy, especially the l'on version.
Baba na Baba 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 the only truthful man in Nigeria 😢 continue to rest in the lord Jesus Christ Amen 🙏😭
Yes oo
That tenor saxophone solo by the late Ugo Chico Okwechime was a banger
😎
❤❤❤
Fela was an innovator, a beautiful mind with a horn or a keyboard. The rest is all noise. Lady tells a beautiful story about the importance of what is in a name. I recently greeted a woman - I mean a lady - in Nigeria as M'am, and she immediately retorted that "Who is m'am?" I remembered Fela and smiled.
I remember when my dad first brought this album home. I had it on repeat when he was out and I was supposed to be doing homework. He had it on repeat when he was home.
He's long passed and I have it in my possession. It's still on repeat.
From the mother and father of Afrobeat... Fela Kuti.
Thank you 2 both of my warrior fathers for this timeless gift.✊🏾✊🏾
And I remember I was hearing pidgin English for the first time so got hooked to the song to understand the message. Talk about Fela ...
What a beautiful story and awesome memory to have!
As a cameroonian, nigerian musicians are great! But Fela is the one..Still wonder on his Skills, and how Nigeria government wont do something for his memories and give some value to the Shrine!! Go Slow as he sang! Even Macron recognize whether not in public am sure he do listen Fela's magic home... Fela Anikulapo was a Genius!! Baba Legend!
Pa we dont give a dam we waiting still White People come and tells us to do it how sad it Sound look cameroon our Country it is nothing but now poor in a rich courty Paul biya is Killing and his Evil People Killing cameroonais i think Paul biya is not a cameroonais because you cant kill your own house so have a nice day King
@@clementchachuwatanko5686 animals
Nigeria is a dreams killer
I get goose bumps whenever I listen to this song which is almost every day! Makes me proud to be an African American!
But dude is nigerian ?
@@egieoruyi7579 Yes I know but I was referring to myself! My lineage is African!
@@CoSu1006 you should not mind them as african we are all brothers and sisters and we should build a better black world altogether
Me too ...listen to every week for years ....this is music and words of truth !
Nigeria Government please do something for Fela Kuti memories
Godwin Amega in Lagos Nigeria and some parts here in America every year they have this event called Felabration
Plus fela museum in Lagos Nigeria... More still have to b done like studying his originality in d field of art and music....
they wont. he insulted many in power today.
they who hated him are in power
This song eish it kills me.wht a legend.the song is so powerful.i love it.it is still rocking like it was for yesterday
My dad was a lover of Fela music..Rip Dad 😢😢
This dude made my childhood back in Enugu. His story and music is firmly woven into my existence. God blessed us with this incredible human.
Baron Dean Emmanuel what's going on now is not music but noise. The legendary fela anikulapo remains the only man who can challenge the military and send. messenger to them
@@farouks.mamman2455 You r correct; not music but noise and half naked bodies shaking on stage: noise; not music.
Baron Dean Emmanuel, he did to all the youths who are in their 60s today. He was simply the best.
For Real
@Van Brown ✊🏿🌍👍👍
True artistic genius.
He really was the real deal.
This music will live on forever because it has meaning and feeling in its DNA.
Brilliant stuff.
Respect to an African King! Love and light from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 to Naija, Africa and the world.
2024 anyone?
Na we dey here❤️🔥
As a kid, I used to find his music so boring. Until I grew up to understand the LYRICS. I love Fela Kuti. He's still I and my uncle's favorite 🖤🖤🖤
Spirit of afrobeat will transcend generations
The Godfather of AFROBEATS!!💪🏾💪🏾
The King ;) Cheers!
❤❤❤❤
*Afrobeat
This song titled Lady brings back fond memories way back in1978 when i was in high school. This song was the opening song at our variety show and the girls and boys dressed in african atire streamed into the school hall dancing. I fell in love with this song and it would play in our household. We even nicknamed my young sister Lady as she danced to it very well. Love Fela.
I was in my senior year in 1978 and you're right Fela was very popular among teenagers then, and the track was released in 1973 when I was a freshman. It stayed at the top of the Afrobeat songs chart since its inception, and it still swinging today
Haaa seventies Africa was legendary Fela kuti. Manu dibango, Salif Keita Dr Nico kasanda Victor Olaiya, Osibisa, grand kalle, Hugh Masekela, Franco luambo, Miriam Makeba, Tabuley Rochereau, Africando, The list goes one. Timeless classics, organic at best ❤️❤️🎶👍🏿let's celebrate our legends
I am Cameroonian i like Fela Kuti this beautiful song
This world needs more Fela's! Greetings from Germany and Turkey!
Fela Kuti - Lady Lyrics
If you call am woman
African woman no go 'gree
She go say, she go say, "I be lady, oh"
She go say, "I be lady, oh"
She go say, "I be lady"
She go say, "I no be woman"
She go say, "Market woman na woman"
She go say, "I be lady"
I want tell you about lady
I want tell you about lady
I want tell you about lady
She go say him equal to man
She go say him get power like man
She go say anything man do himself fit do
I never tell you finish
I never tell you finish
I never tell you finish
I never tell you finish
I never tell you
She go want take cigar before anybody
She go want make you open door for am
She go want make man wash plate
For am, for kitchen
She want salute man
She go, sit down for chair
She want salute man
She go, sit down for chair
She want sit down
For table before anybody
She want sit down
For table before anybody
She want a piece of meat
Before anybody
She want a piece of meat
Before anybody
Call am for dance
She go dance lady dance
Call am for dance
She go dance lady dance
African woman go dance
She go dance the fire dance
African woman go dance
She go dance the fire dance
She know him man na master
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say
But lady, no be so
But lady, no be so
But lady, no be so
But lady, no be so
Lady na master
Lady na master
white lady no be so, lady now masta
Respect
🙌🙌
This entire album stayed on rotation in my home growing up in the 70s and is still on heavy rotation of my daughter, nephews and nieces in my home today. Yeah Yeah!!
Fela philosophy could have made Africa world power, best in any productive, he's a winner right from birth. Music inspiring the death soul to live again. I Love you kuti
It is Fela music, that l felt in love with my husband and Nigeria food. Today l still do. Thank you Fela for your music.
This is what you call hot buttered African music
Not just African music but worldwide music.
Straight-Up No Chaser!!!
This is what i call music, the instrumental is boss, the singing sweet harmony. Love Fela from the first time my husband introduce it to me, never ending the boss, the genius, the legend. Gone but his music lives on Fela.
Till this day I still haven't found the better musician...
You r so right I keep looking and always get pulled right back to fela!
We still have this album at home. Had it since 1973. Love me some Fela!!
Ms. Nini wow!
Can you send it to me as a gift
Absolutely brilliant...still a masterpiece in 2023
This is what we call music
Thank u. Impossible to copy nor replicate.
Why won't FELA be celebrated like Bob Marley??
They were both legends and friends..Bob Marley is the best of reggae and Fela Kuti is also the best of afrobeat.
He is celebrated by many as the greatest of his genre of musical style.....I first heard him on Afropop radio, and once was all it took, to get me into his music in a big way... (I am a "white" guy BTW) Bob Marley was the superstar of Reggae largely because of the British promotional push to get his music to the people in a commercially money making way........and Bob Marley was like the spokesman for the Rastafari religion, which is also a BIG reason why he was the big star he was ....and of course, the smoking of Herb is so very popular among all the youth , who , mostly are the ones that flock to concerts and buy records......so Fella never talks about smoking Herb in his songs, whereas Bob and Peter Tosh did.....A LOT......which pushed up his popularity too.....Plus, Bob Marley happened to be a genius song writer, able to fit together melody and lyrics so perfect that only "God" could try and do better.....I think people just need to want to expand their minds in order to get into some kinds of music that they never heard before...If they only listen to one type of music.......then they are missing out on a lot........Commercially speaking, Fella's music is not something you just hear on the radio at all.....Radio only wants the 2 or 3 minute songs that are popular "hits" ....and never allowed to venture beyond that..ONLY alternative radio stations like the one I heard Fella on, dare to expand the bounds of the norm.....If people are not interested in alternatives, they will never hear anything different...SAD BUT TRUE.....So Bob will always be more popular than Fella.....among the general population......
Emii Precious Marley wrote song glorifying Buffalo Soldiers. Not knowing they were white paid mercenaries. He regretted it to the end
Fela didn't have social media to report instantly. I f bob had instantgram. You think he would glorify Blackman killing indigenous. Im park indigenous. My spirit tells me better. He stooped playing Buffalo soldier
from Wiki: (summary, yes they were black, but often sent to fight Native Peoples)
Buffalo Soldiers originally were members of the 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This nickname was given to the Black Cavalry by Native American tribes who fought in the Indian Wars. The term eventually became synonymous with all of the African American regiments formed in 1866:
Although several African American regiments were raised during the Civil War as part of the Union Army (including the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and the many United States Colored Troops Regiments), the "Buffalo Soldiers" were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.[1]
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In the last decade, the employment of the Buffalo Soldiers by the United States Army in the Indian Wars has led some to call for the critical reappraisal of the African American regiments. In this viewpoint[46] the Buffalo Soldiers were used as mere shock troops or accessories to the forcefully expansionist goals of the U.S. government at the expense of the Native Americans and other minorities.[46][47]
This song came out when i was 20. I am 65. Lucky il found it. Great song.
I used to date an Igbo dude who LOVED Fela. He introduced me to him. Thank god for that guy...
Lol
One of the most beautiful song ever done.
Fela transcends into the trusthfullness of his lyrics.
Réal trip to our higher consciouness.
Listening from Nairobi. Fela Kuti was way ahead of his time....ageless music.
Hello. I 1st started getting hip to Mr. Fela through my dear sister from California. At 1st I was shocked by his lyrics and musical style. But as I got listening I began to get more and more out of what he's still saying today through his musical works and activism and through that of Mr. Fela, Jr's. musical works and activism. I wish all here and in Fela Kuti Music World well. ✌💖
I grew up in Trinidad 🇹🇹 listening to this great music and that raspy sweet commanding voice,love it ...
@Sundiata King ANOTHER Trinidad here ,I have always argue that this have been the grates piece of musical arrangements on this planet..😎
Babatunde Adelekan but name says western Nigeria maybe fela’s region
Am from Kenya East Africa I remember my brother used to sing this song,I liked the English
I remind when i was 5 Y.O. i use to sang this song everytime. It was in 90s. I was in Douala Cameroon. And now i Still listen in 2018 in PARIS. I love fella and Nigeria. I am happy that in Cameroon we have both frenchspoken and englispoken people. And i pray for all my country people who suffering in north West and south ouest Cameroon. God please have a mercy.
How can these Nigerian presidents be so cruel to felakuti who exposed the wrong things they did. Even to the extent of neutralizing his mother. Thunder fire on their souls.
Fela is just more than a legend truly.
There can never be another FELA,let's celebrate this great iconic personality by subscribing and listening to his philosophical and satirical music that will outlive generations. His prophetic YABUS is what my country is experiencing now as a passing phase, I salute his vision
Yes!! There cannot be another Fela!!
The Black President is right up there with any great who created superb music....love you Fela
From cameroon this song is superb
Hey Fela! Yu na be de man, oh!!
My papa used to live with you in London when you came to do your short studies in the late fifties. He told me so much about you.
May you continue to Rest In Power, and I know that Oladumare is watching over youl
Ase!!
Share some of the knowledge your dad shared with you with us o
Very cool! I would love to read some of the stories you’ve been told here.
Wow!! Thanx for sharing.
Remember being at the Shrine in Lagos and being hypnotized by FELA playing live on stage and his LADIES do that dance! Great times!
So many great, fantastic songs. And it's great that his sons Femi and Seun are carrying on the tradition. This, Zombie, Coffin for Head of State, ITT, Gentleman ..... My god what a Force!!!
My life has been blessed for having had a chance to listen to him. God bless you, Fela.
Love Fela's music growing up in Liberia until now .The music lives on Africa will never die..
Fela,Manu,Okousun,Dr Nico,Louga,que sais-je encore.On ne peut pas les nombres,ces sommités africaines de la musîque.Il faut simplement dire : Merci Seigneur de nous avoir donne de si bonnes choses.
I am a lady , with a dose of an African woman Mr. Fela…
Rest in peace great one..
Great musician. Rest In Perfect Peace Fella. We miss you. Sierra Leone and USA.
Legendary live on KUTI ... I am playing this music to my daughter ...much love from NEW YORK CITY ❤
Fela was simply brilliant, a master musician, and messenger, activist, his message is so relevant today...much love from Kenya 🇰🇪
Fela continues to be one of the great influence of African Music.
When i was a teenager, i used to party hard off of this in Kenya night clubs (1900 & the garden) in 1975 and i still love this jam. U GO SAY I B LADY O
Nairobi '70's Club 1900, Arcedia, garden
Le père de l Afrojazz , la conscience africaine dans toute sa splendeur ; ce qui est vrai, ne meurt jamais: sa musique touchera toutes les générations.
South African fluggle horn player Hugh Masakela does a KILLER cover of this Fela classic.
Looooove Hugh Masakela!
Ohhh yesss! Bra Hugh's cover is also 🔥🔥🔥🔥
For years I only knew Hughs version. It is amazing!
Both Fela and Hugh travelled to Ghana around 1967 and joined a band called Hedzolleh. That is where they both learnt the style that is called Afrobeat today. Afrobeat originated from Ghana, from the Highlife genre.
Hugh Masekela once lived at Fela's compound in Nigeria
Cant say how much I still like discovering my favourite artist never ceases to surprise me after first hearing Fela 40 yrs ago in a Dingy Flat in Dublin I feel I'm always honoured to be alive and still hear his great Africian Spirit inspire his people.
I heard a Fela interview, and he most certainly was NOT a sexist.......he had a big respect and love for women, and he had a big heart full of love for all that is free, he was a spokesman for African freedom, and by that I mean free from the white man's christian "civilized" world..........He wanted Africans to get back in touch with their powerful African traditional religions and Sacred Ceremonies.....to free themselves of the chains that Islam and Christianity put on them.....
Afterall, his late mum was one of the biggest pioneers of women's rights in Africa. May they both rest in the Lord.
You are quite right, for actually, in all fairness Fêla wrote another equally interesting song titled “Gentleman “ on the same theme that’s, the alienation of African men trying to mimic the White man.
Islam and christianity didn't put any barriers in front of them...
God bless you.
@@bruhology6437 Don't be silly. It disrupted/corrupted their world view in many ways. These were societies that functioned, and were held together through people, including the kings and chiefs, being held to account by powerful, sacred religions and norms. Suddenly they were assailed by two powerful foreign religions which held that mere loyalty to their respective spiritual 'saviours', and a plea for 'forgiveness' in the event of doing evil, was enough to exculpate them of all guilt and responsibility, or the need to do right by their fellows. It was a powerful paradigm change in the African sensibility, with pretty dire ramifications in the long run.
Watched Fela in London. His music is spiritual and original.
The One and only One no doubt about it, being from Cameroon!
Long live Fela....