Music Revolution

The situation in Nigeria was characterized by "tyrannical leadership, political instability, flagrant disregard for ones rules, entrenched nepotism, economic malformation, impossible cities, recurrent devastating interethnic wars and anti-state rebellions. And the heart-breaking dispersal of populations." (Cosmopolitan Nativist, 2001)

Seemingly oblivious for the chaos close to him, Fela and his band, Koola Lobitos, maintained a steady focus on their music. 'Highlife' was the word to your common and well-known music, and was considered the "quintessential soundtrack to Nigerian independence?with a modernist ideology that would aid change Nigeria into a modern, designed and respectable nation." (Olaniyan pg. 8). Heavily influenced by the London jazz scene, Fela started out playing a fusion of highlife and jazz accompanied by lyrics within the native language (Youruba) and occasionally in English or Pidgin. The subjects were usually the well-known ones such as love, fidelity or friendship, or the pressures of city life. The unfamiliarity on the band's extensive use of many horns, and the relative weakness from the quality of Rela's vocal accompaniments combined to prevent the new creation, highlife-jazz from achieving popular success.

That Fela enjoyed the life he lived was never questioned. He enjoyed rock-star status at residence and abroad, and his well- documented excesses had been always considered subversive of his politics. He recorded 77 albums and wrote a total of 133 songs in his lifetime. His immersion inside the rock-star counterculture, which included sexual permissiveness to the thing of criminality; the advocacy of drug use, as well as the standard sensationalism of his message presented a contradictory image with that in the social activist and scholarly moralizer. Indeed, his questionable lifestyle almost certainly caused his premature death, at age 59, of AIDS-related heart failure.

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