Asked if he plans on remarrying following the end of his marriage, the afro beat king said:
I have never believed in marriage. And I still don’t believe in it but I am happy I experienced it. I believe if I probably hadn’t married my wife we would still be together, and because of my upbringing, my wife and I are very close. I have a very open mind; I don’t let the marriage break-up get to me. And see what we took away from the marriage. We have a very handsome son who is doing us proud and if we did not meet we probably wouldn’t have had him. This overrides all the bad times we ever had. And we did have some good time. And I know why it did not work. When we got married we were young and then success just came from nowhere, and while I was becoming so successful, the same thing that happened to my father started happening to me.
Everybody was misunderstanding where I was coming from and piling pressure on me. Even Fela did not have that kind of success I experienced back then with Bang Bang Bang!, at that time in Nigeria. My dad never had a hit like Bang Bang Bang! Internationally, every radio station was playing it. I am out of this country for eight months in a year. At every major festival I was headlining, it was Bang, Bang, Bang! It was incredible!
Femi,you have done well for yourself. In my humble opinion, your music is not in ANYWAY near your father's music 🎶.
ReplyDeleteVirtually all Fela's songs are CLASSICS!
Fela is the ONLY musician that plays a tune for over 20 minutes and holds you spell bounds from the the beginning to the End!!!
Fela's music 🎶 is Eternal!!! It doesn't FADE!!!
Fela Anikulapo Kuti is the ONE and ONLY King 👑 of Afro Beat Music!!!
I hate divorce
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DeleteFela was incredibly talented. I keep wondering if Nigerians, even of that era, realise the level of talent that passed amongst them in that great composer. My favorites of his songs are, Coffin for head of state, Water no get enemy, Army arrangement, ITT, Alu jon jon ki jon, Zombie, Yellow fever. But strangely as I write this, I don't know even one of Femi's songs even as successful as he no doubt is. I drive 150 miles (240 km) to and from work every day and all I have been listening to as I drive for months now is Fela. The man bestrode his audience like a colossus.
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