In 1960, Fela Kuti got married to his first wife, Remi Taylor and the couples were blessed with three children namely: Femi, Yeni and Sola Kuti. In 1963, Fela Kuti moved back to Nigeria and was trained as a radio producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).
In 1967, he went to Ghana to think of a new musical direction. That was when Fela Kuti first called his music Afrobeat in 1969. After naming his music genre Afrobeat, Fela Kuti took his band to the United States of America where they spent 10 months in Los Angeles. While in America, Fela Kuti discovered the Black Power Movement through Sandra Smith, a partisan of the Black Panther Party.Fela Kuti has won many African Music Awards which include MTV Africa Music Legend Award, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical. He has been declared as a panafricanist, polygamist, African superstar and legendary singer and musician known worldwide.
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