Femi Kuti

14.07.2011

Live at Miles Davis Hall

 

The eldest son of Afro-beat legend Fela, Femi Kuti began establishing himself as an artist independent of his father's legacy in the 90s. Practicing a similar style but offering a more streamlined and accessible version of his father's music, Femi helped the genre - a combination of traditional african rhythms blended with jazz and funk - to the international masses thanks to his eponymous debut album released in 1995. In 2010, he released Africa for Africa recorded in Lagos, an album that definitely proves Femi established his true original and unique style. (FFJM © 2011)
 

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Live Music at its best, Since 1967

Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by all of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles and from David Bowie to Prince.

Whereas Jazz constitutes the Festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated into the Festival, bound together by a common thread of mutual curiosity and enthusiasm.

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