The Afrobeat star used music to promote and preserve his Yoruba culture - while entertaining diverse global influences.
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The man who taught Fela Kuti a thing or two has been all but erased from formal music history. He deserves much better treatment in death.
He played every venue that mattered, a global face of Afrobeat. Orlando Julius embodied the groove.
