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Recently returned from recording their latest album in France and the US, Femi Kuti is performing for Nigerian audiences at the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLagos in Nigeria is a thronging city of millions - and it's home to Femi Kuti and the Positive Force band. \u003cbr/\u003eRecently returned from recording their latest album in France and the US, Femi Kuti is performing for Nigerian audiences at the New Shrine, the venue he built for musicians in memory of his father, the late Afrobeat superstar, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's been a difficult journey to greatness for Femi Kuti and the Positive Force band, having to emerge from the larger than life shadow of his father.  But a large following both at home and abroad is helping the process.  \u003cbr/\u003eFemi Kuti has taken Afrobeat, a politicized hybrid of jazz, high life and traditional African rhythms, and infused it with techno beats, R\u0026amp;B and hip hop, making his music more cosmopolitan and internationally recognised. The result is an electrifying, high energy brand of music uniquely his own.\u003cbr/\u003eThe relationship between Femi and his father was never easy: an icon is a hard act to follow. Fela Kuti is widely regarded as the greatest Afrobeat musician who has ever lived, and is still the music's most visible voice.  \u003cbr/\u003eFela was also an activist who had overseen the evolution of an underground protest culture at a time in Nigeria when this was unthinkable. Fela Kuti simultaneously married 27 women and was often seen in nothing but his underpants, gold chain and a huge marijuana joint in his mouth.  But he gave a voice to both intellectuals, who admired his anti-corruption, pan-African ideology, and people on the street, who felt he spoke their language. According to Fela Kuti, \"Afro-beat is not a music for entertainment; it is to spread a message.\"  He died four years ago of AIDS.\u003cbr/\u003eFemi readily acknowledges his father's musical genius and the influence he has had on his life and work, but it was the sycophancy and the jealousies amongst the people around his father that soured the bond between Fela and Femi.\u003cbr/\u003eFemi left his father's band and set up Positive Force in 1986, which includes his elder sister, Yeni, and his wife, Funke.\u003cbr/\u003eSince then, the band has gone from strength to strength, and his last album 'Shoki Shoki' (1998) and hit single 'Bang, Bang, Bang' were an international success. Like Fela, his music contains strong political commentary on the social problems facing Nigeria and Africa as a whole, but he has rejected his father's lifestyle, adopting a cleaner image.\u003cbr/\u003eFemi Kuti has just finished a new album, 'Fight To Win', which is due to be released in the United States on October 16 2001.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe album - which Femi wrote and arranged - was recorded in France.\u003cbr/\u003e'Do Your Best' is a call to end political apathy, while the title track speaks of the failures of the African government and its blindness toward a coming revolution.  'Stop AIDS' warns Africans to practice safe sex and to be aware of the threat of the HIV virus. It is obviously a subject close to Kuti's heart, since his father's death from AIDS.\u003cbr/\u003eThe album has an added hip hop twist, as it features guest appearances from American collaborators, including MCA labelmates Mos Def, Common and Jaguar.  \u003cbr/\u003eKuti will be on tour in the United States and promoting the album in Europe over the next year.\u003cbr/\u003eKnown for his compelling live shows, MCA believes that by touring extensively, Kuti's messages will be delivered to a diverse audience. \u003cbr/\u003eKuti was recently recruited by Perry Farrell to open Jane's Addiction's tour during October, along with Live.  He will also perform this month at the Groundwork 2001 benefit concert, joining a roster that includes R.E.M and Pearl Jam.  (The Groundwork organization aims to empower people to grow their own food.)\u003cbr/\u003eAdding to Kuti's visibility and political activism is his participation in the forthcoming 'Red Hot + Riot,' a Fela tribute album under the aegis of the venerable Red Hot AIDS relief/awareness organization.  Kuti has completed a track that features Macy Gray and was produced by D'Angelo and the Roots.\u003cbr/\u003e1. GVs buses and people\u003cbr/\u003e2. Food sellers at bus station\u003cbr/\u003e3. Night - sign outside the New Shrine 'Femi Kuti and the Positive Force Band'\u003cbr/\u003e4. Ticket seller for the concert\u003cbr/\u003e5. Two girls entering the New Shrine\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOT Femi Kuti: \"Music is it for me. I don't know what I would do without music. It keeps me sane, it keeps me focused. It keeps me having so much joy in me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Femi Kuti enters stage\u003cbr/\u003e8. CU Femi Kuti's sister, Omoyeni Kuti (Yeni), with other dancers.\u003cbr/\u003e9. Femi Kuti starts to sing 'Bang, Bang, Bang'\u003cbr/\u003e10. WS stage\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOT Femi Kuti: \"My relationship with my father was problematic but we were very close, towards the end very close.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. People buying records in shop that sells Fela Anikulapo Kuti memorabilia\u003cbr/\u003e13. Poster of Fela Anikulapo Kuti\u003cbr/\u003e14. Pan across Fela Kuti's albums\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOT Femi Kuti: \"No doubt about it, he was my musical mentor, and he was a great inspiration, he still is. When I listen to him it takes me way back and I know where I am coming from, I know where I want to go.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. MS Femi Kuti singing 'Bang, Bang, Bang'\u003cbr/\u003e17. CU Yeni Kuti and two dancers\u003cbr/\u003e18. Audience\u003cbr/\u003e19. Femi Kuti performing\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOT Yeni Kuti: \"So it is Femi's original creation, Fela had his own original creation. Femi is at it in his own right, creating in his own right and I believe that he is going to take off a bit to heights that we will not believe. I believe so.\"\u003cbr/\u003e21. Dancers\u003cbr/\u003e22. Femi Kuti singing 'Bang, Bang, Bang'\u003cbr/\u003e23. SOT Femi Kuti: \"I have not given up hope, I will sing about the problems, I will still spend my life and my money trying to liberate Africa from this mess.\"\u003cbr/\u003e24. 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