Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter. As drummer and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Africa 70 from 1968-1979, Tony Allen was a co-founder of the genre of Afrobeat music. As Fela stated, “without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat”. Wikipedia
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..., 1965. The members included Tony Allen (drums), Ojo Okeji (bass), Yinka Roberts (guitar), Isaac Olasugba (sax), Tunde Williams (trumpet), Eddie Aroyewu (trumpet), Tex Becks and Uwaifo (... biochem.chem.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~endo/EAFela.html
Tony Allen is the Nigerian-born drummer, composer and songwriter who, along with Fela Kuti, pioneered afrobeat music, a new blend of jazz and traditional African juju and highlife, in the mid-1960s. Tony learnt to play drums when he was a radio technicia www.africanmusiciansprofiles.com/tonyallen.htm
