Femi Kuti, a preferred Nigerian musician and the primary son of the Afrobeat founder, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, has revealed why he left his father’s band.
Femi made the disclosure throughout his current look on Afropolitan podcast.
Talking about his choice to half methods with Fela’s music band, Femi Kuti disclosed that he left to find his personal id as a result of “I didn’t have any chance of my life”.
“Rising up in class, all people could be like ‘aren’t you going to be like your dad or gained’t you play music? I used to be pressured to be like my father.
“If I wished to play music, I needed to be Femi Kuti. I used the identical mathematical thought that I can’t be Fela. I started to put on the identical outfits with my father as a result of I used to stick with my mom earlier than I ran away to stick with him.
“I used to be like mini Fela as a result of he normally clothes me like himself. I simply thought I ought to higher search for myself quick, or I’m going to be a really sad man. So I went again to my mom.
“The second I fashioned my band, his fan base descended on me. It was very tough to discover a good write up about me then as a result of the press hated me and presently, there was no web for me to defend myself.
“Being below my father, I didn’t have any chance of my very own life, together with having youngsters. I noticed my life in his life,” the 63-year-old acknowledged.
