Afrobeat: Last News

Foals‘ Yannis Philippakis and the late Tony Allen will finally arrive next week.Philippakis first spoke about to NME about working on music with Allen back in in 2017. The pioneering Afrobeat drummer, who played with both Fela Kuti and The Good, The Bad & The Queen, died in 2020 and the music had been in development for some time ahead of his passing.“I’ve been writing with Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer,” Philippakis told NME in 2017. “I started doing some tracks with him last year and then I was on tour.

Burna Boy has been announced to co-headline this year’s UEFA Champions League Final Kick Off Show by Pepsi.The Nigerian Afrobeats star will perform at the sporting final on June 10 at Istanbul’s Atatürk Olympic Stadium, alongside another soon-to-be-announced “global sensation”, according to a press release.“As a huge football fan myself, I know it doesn’t get any bigger than the UEFA Champions League!” Burna Boy said in a statement.“That’s why I’m so excited to be performing on the Pepsi MAX stage at this year’s final. Music and football are the ultimate combination, so you already know I’ll be bringing the vibes and making magic in Istanbul.

Davido has announced that he’ll be heading to London next year for a huge headline show at The O2.The Afrobeat star took to Instagram today (October 25) to reveal that he will returning to London on March 5 for an “even bigger” show than any of his previous put on in the capital.“It is time! London You wanted it even bigger, you wanted it even better and on the 5th of March, 2022 we make the most beautiful movie ever ! Santa says tickets go live on Friday! Let’s go!” he captioned his post.Tickets go on sale on Friday (October 29) at 9:00am – get tickets here.A post shared by Davido (@davido)Davido’s most recent album is last year’s ‘A Better Time’, which featured appearances from Nicki Minaj, Young Thug, Tiwa Savage and Nas.Speaking to NME

Tony Allen has been announced – get all the details below.Tributes poured in from across the world when Allen, who drummed for Fela Kuti, The Good, The Bad & The Queen and many more across a distinguished career, died aged 79 last year.‘There Is No End’ will be released on April 30 on Decca France, and a first single – co-written by Damon Albarn and featuring Skepta and Nigerian poet Ben Okri – has been released today (March 12).“Recording ‘Cosmosis’ was the last time I hung out with Tony,” Albarn said in a statement.

Davido has teamed up with Lil Baby for a new track called ‘So Crazy’ – you can listen to it below.The feel-good song was produced by Nick Papz and Xander, and it will land on the Nigerian pop star’s upcoming new album, ‘A Better Time’, which is released on Friday (November 13).Speaking on collaborating with Atlanta rapper Lil Baby, Davido said: “I’ve known Lil Baby for quite a while, and I think it’s important that I point this out: When you are collaborating on a record, you need to make sure that the relationship is good outside of music.

the new Afrobeats Chart. A good idea in theory, but it was super-annoying to see afroswing artists and UK rappers in an afrobeats chart, perhaps an indication that the OCC was lumping together sounds, failing to recognise the distinction between them.

J Hus, Burna Boy and more.Listen to a new playlist of the top 20 below.BIG news: This week we're launching the first ever Official UK Afrobeats Chart in collaboration with @AfroNation! Full story ⬇️ #AfrobeatsChart https://t.co/WcKUWsKyns— Official Charts (@officialcharts) July 21, 2020Speaking of the new chart, Kofi ‘Funkz’ Kyei of MOVES Recordings, part of the team that created the new chart, says: “It has been amazing to witness over the past decade the sheer growth in African music being welcomed by the UK and the international market.

Pioneering Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen has died at the age of 79.

NSG‘s new mixtape ‘Roots’ had all the makings to be the soundtrack to this year’s summer before, er, all of this happened. With their biggest song ‘Options’ reaching Number Seven on the UK charts and over 28 million views on YouTube following suit, the star power emanating from these platinum-selling, shoulder-flinging east Londoners is almost overwhelming.Opening with the smoothest interpolation of TV’s iconic Arthur theme tune, these west Africans nod to West Indian culture with the Jamaican-born, reggae star Randy Valentine on ‘Political Badness’.