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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by ariefadenco: 9:01am On Aug 29

KingOfAmebo:
And your own career in whatever field has lasted for a decade I guess

This confused artist no go let us hear word...

He is only digging the grave of his already dead career deeper by comparing Fela with Oliver De Coque like this...

He calls himself an artist but don't know the difference between Afrobeat and Highlife music, no be juju be that? How is Afrobeat the same with Highlife music? No wonder his music career didn't last up to 3 years...

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by LZAA: 9:10am On Aug 29

TheStoriesOfMan:
So what is ogene music?

Always talking before thinking. I wasn't talking to airheads. Those who understood my message will understand it.

Take your meds and learn how to logical and factual.

Kingsavage just wants to defend all things Apcheat grin

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by dododawa1: 9:22am On Aug 29

Someone try to revival his Dead music

Strategy of a musicians

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by spinna: 9:44am On Aug 29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77YKrThfD8

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by PlasmaTV: 11:20am On Aug 29

SmartyPants:
You think you are doing me?

Yes

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Omoawoke(m): 12:15pm On Aug 29

I’ve never ever heard of Oliver Olympic he’s referring to

But this is just pure nonsense to start attacking a legend renowned worldwide

Black man enemy is another Blackman

Tenno should go and remove felas name from Grammy hall of fame na

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by samuelson06(m): 12:16pm On Aug 29

DenreleDave:
U think u can force them on our throat.. Only eastern people know those oliver u mentioned....

Fela was global..... The records are there, not the village singer called Oliver twist

Global sh!t with his Igbo-inspired songs.

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Just30: 1:01pm On Aug 29

Jeezuzpick:
Highlife came from Ghana. Fela played highlife before. He also played Jazz. He created Afrobeats from a fusion of jazz and blues, with the horns ensemble typical to highlife.

Highlife like the Igbos played it is zero percent like Afrobeats. Afrobeats is always on the minor scale while highlife is always on the major scale. Den no resemble at all!

When fela got to Ghana, the fusion of Jazz and highlife was already there and he went to learn it.

There just wasn't a name for it so his Ghanaian friend coin the name afrobeat

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by ultraviolet27(f): 3:07pm On Aug 29

AguluLiar:
These guys and inferiority complex...

See the local champion he was comparing to Fela.

Only your blodas listen to Oliver Dé Coque

But I am Yoruba I did and still do listen to Oliver Dé Coque and some other pure Igbo ogene and highlife musicians and why call Oliver local champion?he travelled too though he only sings in his dialect would you have termed ebenezer obey,Ik Dairo,Ayinde bakare local champions because they only sang in yoruba too?

Probably Tekno doesn't know the difference between afrobeat and highlife though,it doesn't mean many yorubas don't listen to Igbo highlife musicians too infact felas sings wears me out compared to other tribal musicians I don't really understand their language.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by RolexOfGeneva(m): 3:36pm On Aug 29

Flangelo12:
You for say Fegarri.

A genre Fela created in the 60s.

If there was something similar, what are the names of the exponents?

That was an error. Before Fela, there was Afrobeat. Google is your friend

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Flangelo12: 4:25pm On Aug 29

RolexOfGeneva:
That was an error. Before Fela, there was Afrobeat. Google is your friend

Most of you Gen Z misconstrue Fela's Afrobeat, a genre he invented with Afrobeats which became part of the universal lexicon after the likes of P-square.

Name one exponent of Fela's style before him.

I dare you.

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by thomas2024: 4:58pm On Aug 29

Flangelo12:
Wrtin this one sabi.

We dey even try to resurrect your dead career, you come add this one on top.

You can never attainted 10th of what this guy has achieved or acquired. Continue running your mouth like tap water.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by peacenow: 5:14pm On Aug 29

You are wrong and you have not done your research correctly. You are a baby ,Alhaji TEKINO.

Your hero and my favorite igbo musician contributed to Afrobeat but he served, recorded Albums with Ebenezer Obey, and many artists in Lagos.

This was when Lagos was the Capital of Nigeria.
How did I know this, I saw his name and pictures of him behind many albums of these great Artists. We call them Record sleeves. This I saw in Late seventies and in the 1980's.

He later went and created his band. I respect his originality and contributions to Nigeria music industry.

That man spoke yoruba like a yoruba man. If you have the contact of Evang. Ebenezer Obey or Sunny Ade call them to ask if he never served them.

All that time, Orlando Julius and Fela were out there. Oliver came out later and started singing and hailing in Igbo. He learnt praising and hailing from people he served.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Flangelo12: 5:40pm On Aug 29

thomas2024:
You can never attainted 10th of what this guy has achieved or acquired. Continue running your mouth like tap water.

What a joke.

In my field, we are a handful in the entire world.

Not everyone is at your level.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by richmanrichard: 5:55pm On Aug 29

proxillin:
throughout the famous years of sunny ade singing Juju, he was never classified under afrobeat. He toured europe with juju music, not any other genre.

highlife was never under afrobeat.

Its like saying Jaz was classified as hiphop. shey you dey whine yourself ni

goggle the meaning of AFROBEATS.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Mirasteel: 5:56pm On Aug 29

samuelson06:
Lol. Fela's songs were for rascals. You and I know that for real. Had a guy way back then that used to dance naked to his songs. His songs were for mentally unstable people

What do you know? you are GenZ.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by thomas2024: 6:14pm On Aug 29

Flangelo12:

What a joke.

In my field, we are a handful in the entire world.

Not everyone is at your level.

You are right. Not everyone is at my level. And yet some people are at my level, and above my level. But my question is directed at you. So deal with it🥳

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Flangelo12: 6:18pm On Aug 29

thomas2024:
You are right. Not everyone is at my level. And yet some people are at my level, and above my level. But my question is directed at you. So deal with it🥳

This one thinks he has said something smart.

grin

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by thomas2024: 6:39pm On Aug 29

Flangelo12:
This one thinks he has said something smart.

So you’re the one saying something smart bah? Continue

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by AlphaTaikun: 1:20am On Aug 30*

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

See how GenZ Tekno is fraudulently attempting to spin history. He should kuku include Dan Maraya of Jos too.

Oliver De Coque sings highlife like his peers and those ahead of him like Rex Lawson, Bobby Benson etc.

Only a fraud will come up today to claim Oliver De Coque sings afrobeat. He doesn't! Throughout his lifetime, Sir Oliver De Coque sings Ogene highlife and never at anytime deviated from his highlife music.

Afrobeat is not highlife! Fela created Afrobeat and his beats and lyrics were largely drawn from his Yoruba language he spins into pidgin.

"Water no get enemy" that Fela sang about, is a Yoruba proverb. And if you go and listen to his grandfather's Egba anthem, you will appreciate greatly how Fela drew richly from his Yoruba heritage.

The iconic Orlando Julius claimed on "Teju Babyface Show" years back before he passed on that "Afrobeat" (NOT this new music genre called "Afrobeats" the younger ones are now playing) was created by him in the 1960s long before Fela took it up.

Orlando Julius Ekemode's "Ijo Soul" was actually sampled by the great godfather of soul, James Brown in his "I Feel Good." James Brown visited Nigeria back in the 1960s where he met and played music with Orlando Julius and Fela in Ibadan.

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by RolexOfGeneva(m): 8:55am On Aug 30

Flangelo12:
Most of you Gen Z misconstrue Fela's Afrobeat, a genre he invented with Afrobeats which became part of the universal lexicon after the likes of P-square.

Name one exponent of Fela's style before him.

I dare you.

Do you know what Afrobeat is? Simply put, Afrobeat= traditional African beats + American soul music. Orlando Julius sang exactly like Fela before Fela even started singing(go and watch him) and there are hints that Fela drew major inspiration from his works. Fela didn't originate Afrobeat, he just gave it a real nice nomenclature.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Flangelo12: 10:21am On Aug 30

RolexOfGeneva:
Do you know what Afrobeat is? Simply put, Afrobeat= traditional African beats + American soul music. Orlando Julius sang exactly like Fela before Fela even started singing(go and watch him) and there are hints that Fela drew major inspiration from his works. Fela didn't originate Afrobeat, he just gave it a real nice nomenclature.

Just look at years active.

Bear in mind, Fela is also older than Orlando Julie's.

You guys should give it up.

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by RolexOfGeneva(m): 3:16pm On Aug 30

Flangelo12:
Just look at years active.

Bear in mind, Fela is also older than Orlando Julie's.

You guys should give it up.

Stop arguing things you don't know. I'm a music analyst. Between 1958 and 1962, Fela was living with his brother in London studying music. During that time, he studied the works of several American Soul musicians and African indigenous Artist such as Orlando Julius, who was already an accomplished, albeit fledging young musician who was at that time experimenting at Obafemi Awolowo's music school with a new style of music which became what we know today as Afrobeat. When Orlando started singing Afrobeat in Nigeria, Fela was still in the university in London. He is often mistaken as the inventor because he gave it the name "Afrobeat" and became far more popular than the originator.

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by RealityKings1: 3:57pm On Aug 30

RolexOfGeneva:
Stop arguing things you don't know. I'm a music analyst. Between 1958 and 1962, Fela was living with his brother in London studying music. During that time, he studied the works of several American Soul musicians and African indigenous Artist such as Orlando Julius, who was already an accomplished, albeit fledging young musician who was at that time experimenting at Obafemi Awolowo's music school with a new style of music which became what we know today as Afrobeat. When Orlando started singing Afrobeat in Nigeria, Fela was still in the university in London. He is often mistaken as the inventor because he gave it the name "Afrobeat" and became far more popular than the originator.

Great

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by RealityKings1: 4:02pm On Aug 30

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.

See how GenZ Tekno is fraudulently attempting to spin history. He should kuku include Dan Maraya of Jos too.

Oliver De Coque sings highlife like his peers and those ahead of him like Rex Lawson, Bobby Benson etc.

Only a fraud will come up today to claim Oliver De Coque sings afrobeat. He doesn't! Throughout his lifetime, Sir Oliver De Coque sings Ogene highlife and never at anytime deviated from his highlife music.

Afrobeat is not highlife! Fela created Afrobeat and his beats and lyrics were largely drawn from his Yoruba language he spins into pidgin.

"Water no get enemy" that Fela sang about, is a Yoruba proverb. And if you go and listen to his grandfather's Egba anthem, you will appreciate greatly how Fela drew richly from his Yoruba heritage.

Absolutely on point

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Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by Flangelo12: 4:31pm On Aug 30

RolexOfGeneva:
Stop arguing things you don't know. I'm a music analyst. Between 1958 and 1962, Fela was living with his brother in London studying music. During that time, he studied the works of several American Soul musicians and African indigenous Artist such as Orlando Julius, who was already an accomplished, albeit fledging young musician who was at that time experimenting at Obafemi Awolowo's music school with a new style of music which became what we know today as Afrobeat. When Orlando started singing Afrobeat in Nigeria, Fela was still in the university in London. He is often mistaken as the inventor because he gave it the name "Afrobeat" and became far more popular than the originator.

Afficionado my foot.

No, there were no other Afrobeat musicians before Fela Kuti, as he is universally recognized as the sole creator and inventor of the original Afrobeat genre.Unlike most musical styles that evolve out of a collective scene across different regions, Afrobeat was engineered by one man. However, to understand how it came to be, it is helpful to look at the collaborators who co-developed it with him and the older genres that laid the groundwork:

Re: Fela Not Originator Of Afrobeats – Tekno by kingsavage: 10:36am On Aug 31

TheStoriesOfMan:
So what is ogene music?

Always talking before thinking. I wasn't talking to airheads. Those who understood my message will understand it.

Take your meds and learn how to logical and factual.

what is ogene music huh