General News | 8 July 2024 12:23 CET

Seun Kuti Boasts Of Music Importance, Criticizes African Award Organisers

By Oluwarantimi Oludase 

Popular controversial singer, Seun Kuti, has boasted about his importance in music by citing his position in the Egypt 80 band, which he inherited from his late father and Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.

The controversial singer berated African award organisers for neglecting him during award nominations. He stated that they do not understand his relevance in African music and his position as the leader of the Egypt 80 band speaks for him.

He made this known during a recent interview with City 105.1 FM, where he stressed his music importance and his freewill in making his perspective of an issue known without fear.

He said;
“I won’t stop speaking my mind because I’m no longer afraid of anything you’re going to do. What are you going to do? You’re not going to play my videos? Are you not already doing this? So what are you going to do?

“Even when I got nominated for the Grammys, no award organization in the whole of Africa nominated my band in any category, knowing fully well that no matter what anybody says about me, I, Seun, am the frontman for Africa’s most successful band. 54 albums. By the time I drop my next album, it will be 55 albums.

“The band that I lead is an African musical institution. If we knew what we were doing in Africa, it would go without saying that this band should be given some kind of national recognition to keep them in the forefront of the psyche of African people all over the world, to know that Africans can achieve institutions like this. But well, that is for an African who knows what he’s doing.”

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