Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 - Soldiers - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2011

Performance - 3 july 2011
It's 1997. Your father, an icon both home and abroad, has just died, leaving the family business in your lap. You are just 15. This is the situation the teenage Seun Kuti suddenly found himself in when his dad, the legendary Fela, passed on at the age of 59, with Kuti Jr inheriting the potentially onerous task of fronting his father's band Egypt 80. As their name suggests, this is an outfit that had been playing supercharged, politically edged Afrobeat since before new-born Seun was even born. He's certainly a dead ringer for Fela, sharing the same wiry figure as well as the compulsion to say what needs to be said. He once took a sabbatical to try other music, but soon returned to the fold. "I didn't want to be continually compared to my dad," he told The Guardian. "Then I realised that was the coward's way out. I could be a really good Afrobeat star in my own right." And that he is.

[@pierreahoulou7371]

Waoh! Please listening these songs and music. It's simple wonderfull., Respect to Africa.

[@shawtfinga1078]

Egypt 80 super band .love the music and profarmence.mile davie listen right now

[@LimKaamen]

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 remain closest to Fela. Refreshing!

[@tbos.]

That lead trumpets/ soloist man...Wow! Some gbedu!

[@sulaimonolabode3613]

Iyabo Adeniran you are a good dancer, so much to watch again and again.

[@epierre727]

Nice......! Fela lives...

[@breakthroughmoment1647]

They are a really together group! Just cookin’.

[@durantymoniquelouise4306]

Vers cool. Goodyear song

[@brachadzo]

The sound is still intact the Fela way I guess something to do with those old timers.

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Help us keep this legacy that BABA left it shall bé well

[@gutydelontue4286]

Excelente

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Awesome

[@healinghearts864]

Has Peter played for these enlightened types of old and young people like this before?!

[@ayorindeemmanuel9746]

This is correct

[@Boombastic82]

I want to be a rapper in an Afro Band

[@durantymoniquelouise4306]

Coll

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Redmi 5 rouge acharf ahbass

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I just found you!!!!!!! ASANTE WATU/MTU........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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This one is called "Soldiers"

[@AfricanMusicFestival]

Thanks

[@ronaldrobinson9363]

That's the way father's legacy are supposed to be given to their sons. Not like that clown that's in the White House.

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replica aflo beat

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