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3-time Grammy-award-winner
its influence has been extraordinary
savouring bits and pieces and re-contextualising them into entirely delightful and playfully intricate songs
confident without being pompous
Jean Knight
Fela Kuti - Sorrow, Tears & Blood Patten 3-time Grammy-award-winnerSorrow, Tears & Blood: Fela wrote this album in response to the 1976 Soweto Uprising in which thousands of South African students protested the forced teaching of Afrikaans, the colonial language of Apartheid. During the uprising hundreds were killed. The song calls out killings that have gone on in the name of authority and totalitarian rule as well as the instruments of repression in colonial Africa the police and the army. The music parallels the
