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Seun Kuti, the Glossary

Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), popularly known Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, singer and the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.^[1]

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Knitting Factory Records artists
Nigerian atheists
Nigerian saxophonists
Ransome-Kuti family

Afrobeat

Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a Nigerian music genre that involves the combination of West African musical styles from Ghana and Nigeria but mainly Nigeria, such as the traditional Yoruba and Igbo music and highlife, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Because Music

Because Music is an independent record label with headquarters in Paris and London.

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BellaNaija

BellaNaija is a Nigerian lifestyle, entertainment, and fashion website headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Black Thought

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, singer, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove.

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Calle 13 (band)

Calle 13 is a Puerto Rican alternative hip-hop band formed by stepbrothers Residente (lead vocalist, songwriter) and Visitante (multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, beat producer), along with their half-sister iLe, also known as PG-13 (backing vocals).

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Egypt

Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.

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Fela Kuti

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti; 15 October 1938 – 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian musician and political activist. Seun Kuti and Fela Kuti are Knitting Factory Records artists, Nigerian male musicians, Nigerian saxophonists, Ransome-Kuti family, world music musicians and Yoruba musicians.

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Femi Kuti

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. Seun Kuti and Femi Kuti are 21st-century Nigerian musicians, 21st-century saxophonists, Knitting Factory Records artists, musicians from Lagos, Nigerian saxophonists, Ransome-Kuti family, world music musicians and Yoruba musicians.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957) is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015.

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Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Global Music Album is an honor presented to recording artists for influential music from around the globe at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements.

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I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss

I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss is the tenth and final studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor, released on 11 August 2014 on Nettwerk Music Group.

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Independent National Electoral Commission

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is the electoral body which oversees elections in Nigeria.

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Jidenna

Jidenna Theodore Mobisson (born May 4, 1985), known mononymously as Jidenna, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter.

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Knitting Factory Records

Knitting Factory Records is an independent American music label that is notable for promoting a variety of artists, including the music of deceased Nigerian political activist Fela Kuti.

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Lagos

Lagos (also US), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwestern Nigeria.

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Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) is a performing arts higher education institution in Liverpool, founded by Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty and opened in 1996.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Monocle Radio

Monocle Radio (originally launched as Monocle 24) is a mainly speech-based internet radio station, broadcasting from Monocle's headquarters at Midori House in London, England.

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Movement of the People

The Movement of the People, commonly abbreviated as MOP or M.O.P, is a Nigerian left-wing pan-African political movement.

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Mr Bongo Records

Mr Bongo is a British, Brighton based independent record label, independent film and publishing company specialising in world music and art house/world cinema.

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Musician

A musician is one who composes, conducts, or performs music.

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Myspace

Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.

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Nettwerk Music Group

Nettwerk Music Group is an independent record label founded in 1984.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.

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Occupy Nigeria

Occupy Nigeria was a socio-political protest movement that began in Nigeria on Monday, 2 January 2012 in response to the fuel subsidy removal by the Federal Government of President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday, 1 January 2012.

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Palestinians

Palestinians (al-Filasṭīniyyūn) or Palestinian people (label), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs (label), are an Arab ethnonational group native to Palestine.

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Pan-Africanism

Pan-Africanism is a worldwide movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all indigenous peoples and diasporas of African ancestry.

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Ransome-Kuti family

The Ransome-Kuti family is a Nigerian Yoruba political family noted for its simultaneous contributions to art, religion, education and medicine.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist.

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Singing

Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice.

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Sony Masterworks

Sony Music Masterworks (also known simply as Sony Masterworks) is a record label, the result of a restructuring of Sony Music's classical music division.

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Strut Records

Strut Records is a British record label that started in 1999.

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Tôt ou Tard

Tôt ou Tard (stylized as tôt Ou tard) is an independent French record label.

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The Guardian (Nigeria)

The Guardian is a Nigerian independent daily newspaper, established in 1983, published by Guardian Newspapers Limited in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Twelve-inch single

The twelve-inch single (often written as 12-inch or 12) is a type of vinyl (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) gramophone record that has wider groove spacing and shorter playing time with a "single" or a few related sound tracks on each surface, compared to LPs (long play) which have several songs on each side.

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Visual Collaborative

Visual Collaborative is an American festival and publishing platform highlighting the intersections of people, commerce, and innovation.

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85 to Africa

85 to Africa is the second studio album by Nigerian-American recording artist Jidenna.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seun_Kuti

Also known as Black Times, Black Times (album), Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti.

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See also

Knitting Factory Records artists

Nigerian atheists

Nigerian saxophonists

Ransome-Kuti family

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