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Seun Kuti Turns 38 Today

Oluseun Anikulapo Kuti (born 11 January 1983), commonly known as Seun Kuti, is a Nigerian musician, singer and the youngest son of famous afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Seun leads his father's former band Egypt 80.

The youngest son of Fela Kuti, Kuti was born in 1983. He became interested in music at five years old, by nine he was playing with his father's band Egypt 80.

Fela Kuti died in 1997 and Kuti took to the role of leading Egypt 80.

In 2008, the band released album called Many Things. this was the first album released under the moniker Sean Kuti & Egypt 80.

He is featured in Calle 13's song "Todo se mueve" (Everything Moves), on their 2010 album Entren los que quieran.

In 2014, Seun Kuti was given an honorary invitation to perform live for the first time at the Industry Nite.

In 2019, Kuti was a featured guest on 85 to Africa; the second album by American rapper Jidenna. In June, Kuti was featured in the Visual Collaborative electronic catalogue, under the Polaris series, he was interviewed on Pan-African awareness, his country and music.

Politics
Kuti participated actively in the Occupy Nigeria protests against the fuel subsidy removal policy of President Goodluck Jonathan in his native Nigeria, in January 2012. Seun Kuti is an atheist.

In 2019, on Jidenna's 85 to Africa album Kuti voiced an outro of a song with the words:

"I believe it's time for an African peoples powered highway. A highway that will connect the Diaspora and Motherland. A global highway for African people all over the world to rediscover themselves. To that the only thing that unites black people, globally, the only thing we all have in common is that we are from Africa".

Personal life
Seun and girlfriend Yetunde George Ademiluyi welcomed a baby girl on 16 December 2013 and named her Ifafunmike Adara Anikulapo-Kuti.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seun_Kuti

Celebrating his birthday today, Seun Kuti shared a photo and wrote:

Happy bday to me! Born on this day 1983. Life is all about the people we meet along the way that help us become better. Today is my birthday but I’m gonna write a little message to my own special gift @chefyeide. Today might be my birthday but I will celebrate you, the glue that makes the broken China anew. She dey the trenches with the troops to empower the group. The main pepper inside this soup! She grab my thoughts and lift my spirits and a little girl to remind me that the work can never finish. Thanks for being ‘ a Gift ‘ #getthesax. #8338

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Nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPwwD7cymj4

38 years old!
For real?

Hbd

From all of us @[b][/b] : Happy Birthday Omo Baba 70.

38 years already?!
Just like yesterday

Little Seun chilling out with the one and only Abami Eda.

See him head e be like say dem use bottle cover draw that head. The thing round well well.

Him pikin just go carry him very round head. Instead of her to resemble her fine mama

HBD

I always respect citizen's fighting for a better future for Nigerians

fine man
he resembles his dad if not for the skodo he barb
happy birthday sir

Happy birthday...

Hbd

I sure say nobody go get mind block your street with Owambe again. Sanwo-Olu don get their time.

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The daughter, is defo, a chip off the old block.
Look at her Kuti dynasty stern frank and focused countenance.
With such a perfect raised fist aka clenched fist like that, I'll say watch out for her activism(s) in the future
HBD to you my brother

Happy birthday big bird

Happy birthday

Nna eh ,pesin go finally old for this life o

See fela bush, the man no send at all

tamdun:
See fela bush

Beauty truely lies in de eyes of de beholder

Tueh!

See fela bear bear na. Oh lord

Happy birthday to him, but the first pics with his dad is so indecent. He should keep that private, his father was almost UNCLAD, RIPto fela though.

Fela was bushy down dey ozone layer

The clock doesn't tick away, it's our lives that tick off. I spent 2-minutes on this thread, that's 2-mins.closer to my grave... Birthdays are a reminder that death isn't so far away.

Happy Baiday

Okay ooo

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From all of us @[b][/b] : Happy Birthday Omo Baba 70.

38 years already?!
Just like yesterday

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Seun doesn't even know of your existence. So, boy, you are a nonentity to him. Yeah, a full time nonentity.