Artist: Femi Kuti
Genre(s):
Folk
Electronic
Other
Discography:
The Definitive Collection CD2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
The Definitive Collection CD1
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Africa Shrine
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Shoki Shoki
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Fight to Win
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Shoki Remixed
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
The word of Afro-beat caption Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Femi Kuti worn-out age playing in his father's band in front finally rising to superstardom following his father's death in the later '90s. Since few artists can match his father's bequest of not only euphony but influence, Femi's relation as his son is both a approving and a curse. On the one hand, it's ne'er been unmanageable for Femi to garner crusade or attention, and MCA went out of its way to fight his career with ludicrous amounts of publicity. Yet on the other hand, no matter his item-by-item accomplishments, Femi will forever be known as Fela's boy. Practicing a similar flair of Afro-beat as his padre, Femi helped acquaint the percussive blending of malarky and funk medicine to the external hoi polloi outset in the mid-'90s, along with his father's same signified of political activism. After his father's death in 1997, Femi suddenly found himself the subject of vast attention. He responded by signing with MCA and embarking on his solo career outset with Shoki Shoki. He won enormous vital celebration about the globe and began making efforts to break into the U.S. mainstream in sequential years.
Innate in London and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, Femi's musical career started when he began playing in his father's band, Egypt 80. In 1986, Femi started his possess isthmus, Positive Force, and began establishing himself as an creative person independent of his father's massive bequest. In the mid-'90s, Motown offered him a record deal with its dress shop label, Tabu. Femi's eponymic debut record album resulted. Released in 1995, the record album south Korean won congratulations passim Europe and Africa for offering a more streamlined and accessible adaptation of his father's medicine. Femi embarked on an protracted promotional hitch, crossover get-go Africa, then Europe in 1996 and 1997. His solo career was off to a successful start, despite the dissolution of Motown's Tabu label and Femi's record deal with it.
However, this problem became the least of Femi's concerns when his padre sadly died of AIDS-related complications in 1997. Shortly later on, his sister, Sola, as well suffered an untimely destruction, making 1997 a genuinely dark year for Femi. He would later write "'97," a strain that frankly reflects on this peculiarly tragic time. Yet with cataclysm comes opportunity in the earthly concern of music, and Femi at long last signed a major-label record deal with Polygram in December 1997, only months subsequently his father's destruction. MCA made the most out of the situation, repackaging, and re-releasing much of Fela's catalogue and setting the stage for Femi's MCA debut album in the sue. Following months of press and hype, MCA released Shoki Shoki in early 1999 to widespread hail from a number of honored publications like the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vibe, non to mention former smaller publications.
A twelvemonth later, Femi returned with his s album, Fight to Win, and toured the States with Jane's Addiction in an exploit to crossover to a more than mainstream audience. Part of this crossover feat meant positioning himself closer to hip-hop and its mammoth audience. Fight to Win featured a phone number of well-thought-of rap artists like Mos Def and Common. As expected, critics far-famed the record album, though western masses seemed kind of indifferent to both the album and Femi's concert trek with Jane's Addiction.
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