African music shines on the global stage as Fela Kuti receives a posthumous GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 ...

When the Afrobeat sensation first saw Lemi Ghariokwu’s work, he said, ‘Wow!’ Then he plied him with marijuana and asked him to design his album sleeves. The artist recalls their extraordinary ...

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The late Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti will be posthumously honoured with a Special Merit Lifetime Achievement Award at the 67th Grammys, making him the first African musician to receive the ...

Netizens across social media have reacted with excitement following the Recording Academy’s decision to honour Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2026 Grammy ...

Cher, Whitney Houston, and Paul Simon, were among the legends up for the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 2026. Special Merits Awards 2026: The Recording Academy has officially announced its Special ...

The late Afrobeat legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, has become the first African musician ever awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The announcement on Saturday 19 December 2025 has put the late ...

The Recording Academy has announced Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti as a Special Merit Awards honoree at the 2026 Grammy Awards, nearly three decades after his death. Fela, who died on 2 August ...

The late Afrobeat pioneer and political activist is recognized decades after his death for reshaping global music and using sound as a tool of resistance. Fela Kuti, the Nigerian musician whose sound ...

Fela Kuti, Whitney Houston, and Paul Simon are among those set to receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the 2026 Grammys, the Recording Academy announced today. Cher, Carlos Santana, and Chaka Khan ...

A tribute by dancer Korra Obidi at the gravesite of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti has ignited a spirited debate online after receiving a surprising endorsement from Fela’s son, musician Seun Kuti. During ...