Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has played down the influence of their famous father Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the success enjoyed by his off-springs.
Seun Kuti who inherited his father’s Egypt 80 band noted that music had always run in the kuti family, adding his grandfather Ransome Kuti was a great composer and musician.
“It is not because of our dad Fela that we are successful in music,” said Seun Kuti
“My brother, Femi Kuti, is 60. I am 40. My nephew, Made Kuti, is behind us now too, and he is in his 20s. And he is actually the best of all of us. That’s what it means; it continues to progress because we are really dedicated to it.
“It’s not just because we are Fela’s children. I mean, nobody says Fela is a musician because his father was a musician. Nobody knows that Fela’s father was a musician. My grandfather was a musician. He recorded albums, and he wrote a lot of hymns. My great-grandfather was the first person in Nigeria to record a song. We came from a lineage of musicians.”
Seun and Made Kuti