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FELA KUTI RECEIVES GRAMMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAYGSw7IeW4

"The moment Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwhrOTUiqvk?si=WkSWHz65rVwVTETE
Jan 1 2026

They legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was a great jazz artist and some do NOT know he started off playing jazz music back in the 1960s through to the 1970s and that was reflected in his style of music... Afrobeat.

I have nearly all 'Fela's musical compositions from the 1970s right to the 1990s.

I was there on stage, Grammy was fantastic

AlphaTaikun:
I have nearly all 'Fela's musical compositions from the 1970s right to the 1990s.

Allow me to drag you all the way back to the 50s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ev4pinW7ws?si=-jShb31nmSzbZ5E-

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/felas-first-fela-ransome-kuti-and-his-highlife-rakers-cadillac-records

budaatum:
Allow me to drag you all the way back to the 50s.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ev4pinW7ws?si=-jShb31nmSzbZ5E-

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/felas-first-fela-ransome-kuti-and-his-highlife-rakers-cadillac-records

@budaatum

'Fela before his "political activisms" started.


I appreciate the article link you added to this thread "on the lost music works" and the video throwback to the 1950s scene with Fela Special (1954-1966).

"Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Highlife Rakers - Fela's Special" truly evokes an "out of the body" experience for me. I'll have to get a full body of his works from the 1950s as well if available.

Second, I once watched an interview where the legendary Orlando Julius Ekemode (who was married to an African-American and passed on a few years ago) strongly affirmed that he is the creator of the name "Afrobeat" and NOT 'Fela. He also gave extra layers of information on how the legendary James Brown visited Ibadan in Nigeria in the 1960s where Orlando Julius Ekemode said he and 'Fela played alongside James Brown.

The popular James Brown song "I Feel Good" is in reality a sample of Orlando Julius Ekemode's original song... "Ijo Soul" from the 1960s. Another song of Orlando Julius was sampled and it won a Grammy Award in 1981 for the American guy who sampled it.


ORLANDO JULIUS & HIS MODERN ACES Super Afro Soul [Full Album]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89yiPCXWh4?si=3-VS60VPgQqvT05R

Listen to Orlando Julius and his band in the time stamp @33:39, where we have
"Ijo Soul" which James Brown sampled from to have "I feel good."


Thanks again.

AlphaTaikun:
@budaatum
I appreciate the article link you added to this thread "on the lost music works" and the video throwback to the 1950s scene with Fela Special (1954-1966).

"Fela Ransome-Kuti & The Highlife Rakers - Fela's Special" truly evokes an "out of the body" experience for me. I'll have to get a full body of his works from the 1950s as well if available.

Second, I once watched an interview where the legendary Orlando Julius Ekemode (who was married to an African-American and passed on a few years ago) strongly affirmed that he is the creator of the name "Afrobeat" and NOT 'Fela. He also gave extra layers of information on how the legendary James Brown visited Ibadan in Nigeria in the 1960s where Orlando Julius Ekemode said he and 'Fela played alongside James Brown.

The popular James Brown song "I Feel Good" is in reality a sample of Orlando Julius Ekemode's original song... "Ijo Soul" from the 1960s. Another song of Orlando Julius was sampled and it won a Grammy Award in 1981 for the American guy who sampled it.


Thanks again.

If you find a way to receive it, and after I punish myself enough to replace the laptop I dropped in the bath, I will send you all I have with pleasure.

budaatum:
If you find a way to receive it, and after I punish myself enough to replace the laptop I dropped in the bath, I will send you all I have with pleasure.

@budaatum

Whoa! That's mad cool.

Fortunately stored data can be retrieved from all laptop hard drives in the event of any major damage. I'll reach out to you later with a better way for me to receive what you have.

Thanks again.

Cheers.


P.S.
Remember to listen to Orlando Julius Ekemode's "Ijo Soul" in the timestamp @ 33:39 right BELOW, which the "Godfather of Soul" James Brown sampled in his international hit, "I Feel Good."


1] "ORLANDO JULIUS & HIS MODERN ACES Super Afro Soul [Full Album]"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i89yiPCXWh4?si=3-VS60VPgQqvT05R
Brancaleone31 • 27 Apr 2013


2] "Ijo Soul"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmVKMqhPaA?si=AD8cbPH8QhxGHndj
Setenta - Topic • 30 Apr 2018

Oh. AlphaTaikun. The laptop itself is drowned but backup somewhere, I just need to punish myself for my bathroom stup¹d. And with price of components so high! I'm waiting. Or rather, punishing myself.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2DsfpsmWI?si=MLhuE70MXeGvrGrk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMcsESmvzcE?si=Tm07EnLIqJ0ggG0K


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHK2q5ypsx4?si=OXYITC4z-KgPnNQa

"Interview with Fela Anikulapo Kuti in 1981 in Strasbourg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgtknaBaYDk?si=fjNwuh-JryTwmC74
Philippe Axell •

A brutally honest dude in that video interview right ABOVE.



"Yor in GH" Feb 28 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY35b-ZLa80?si=wnid-ReJostpB3--

budaatum:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMcsESmvzcE?si=Tm07EnLIqJ0ggG0K


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHK2q5ypsx4?si=OXYITC4z-KgPnNQa

That's highly impressive.

That's the pre-1927 historic recording of the voice of 'Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's grandfather! It's impressive that folks in Europe and North America still have the facilities for preserving popular pre-1920s celluloid movies and songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1xNHUTzBUk?si=MW5BZ-ytTmKmKaIm