Fela’s Drummer & Ex Band Leader ,Tony Allen Passes On At 76

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ennio Leanza/EPA/Shutterstock (8130489k) Nigerian Drummer Composer and Songwriter Tony Allen Performs on Stage at the Salzhaus in Winterthur Switzerland 22 May 2015 Switzerland Schweiz Suisse Winterthur Switzerland Music – May 2015

Fela’s Drummer & Ex Band Leader ,Tony Allen Passes On At 76

Fela’s Drummer & Ex Band Leader ,Tony Allen Passes On At 76
Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ennio Leanza/EPA/Shutterstock (8130489k)
Nigerian Drummer Composer and Songwriter Performs on Stage at the Salzhaus in Winterthur Switzerland 22 May 2015 Switzerland Schweiz Suisse Winterthur
Switzerland Music – May 2015

Tony Allen was the pioneering drummer who helped define Afrobeat during his tenure with Kuti. According to his manager, Eric Trosser . the drummer was taken to Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris, where he died of abdominal aortic aneurysm. He said :“He was in great shape, it was quite sudden. I spoke to him at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT), then two hours later he was sick and taken to Pompidou hospital where he died.”

Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti’s band Africa ’70 in the 1960s and 1970s. They recorded around 40 albums together in Africa ’70, before parting ways after a mythic 26-year collaboration. After he left, Fela needed four drummers to replace him.

 

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