Tinubu Celebrates Fela Kuti’s Historic Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

President Bola Tinubu has paid tribute to late Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti after the Recording Academy honoured him with a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award. The State House statement described Fela as a cultural icon whose music reshaped modern African sound. Tinubu praised Fela’s fearless voice of the people and his role as a philosopher of freedom. He noted that the award reaffirms the musician’s global impact and influence on generations of artists. As the first African recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Fela’s legacy lives on in contemporary Nigerian music and the worldwide Afrobeats movement.

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