Tony Allen (musician)

Tony Allen
Allen at Oslo Jazzfestival 2015
Allen at Oslo Jazzfestival 2015
Background information
Sunan haihuwa Tony Oladipo Allen
Born

(1940

-07-20)20 Yuli 1940
Lagos, British Nigeria
Mutuwa 30 Afrilu 2020(2020-04-30) (shekaru 79)
Paris, France
Genre (en) Fassara
  • Drummer
  • composer
  • songwriter
Kayan kida
  • Drums
  • percussion
Years active 1968–2020
Tony Allen at the Eurockéennes of 2007

Tony Oladipo Allen (an haife Shi 20 ga watan Yulin a shikara 1940 - 30 ga Afrilu 2020) ya kasance dan Najeriya da Faransa mai bugawa, mawaki, kuma marubucin waka wanda ya zauna kuma ya yi aiki a Paris, Faransa . Allen ya kasance mai bugawa da kuma darektan kida na Ƙungiyar Fela Kuti ta Afirka '70 daga 1968 zuwa 1979, kuma yana daya daga cikin wadanda suka kafa nau'in Afrobeat. Fela sau da ya bayyana cewa "ba tare da Tony Allen ba, ba za a sami Afrobeat ba". Brian Eno ya bayyana shi a matsayin "watakila mafi girman mawaki wanda ya taba rayuwa".[1] [2] [3] [4]

Daga baya a rayuwa, Allen ya yi aiki tare da Damon Albarn akan ayyuka da yawa, ciki har da Gorillaz, the Good, the Bad & the Queen da Rocket Juice & Moon. An rubuta aikin Allen da rayuwarsa a cikin tarihin rayuwarsa na 2013 Tony Allen: Jagoran Drummer na Afrobeat, wanda aka rubuta tare da Michael E. Veal, wanda a baya ya rubuta cikakken tarihin rayuwar Fela Kuti.[5] [6]

  1. Daniel Kreps; Elias Leight (April 30, 2020). "Tony Allen, Pioneering Afrobeat Drummer, Dead at 79". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. "Quand Tony Allen, père de l'afrobeat, se met à table" (in Faransanci). 2020-05-01.
  3. Williamson, Nigel (18 January 2008). "Tony Allen: The veteran Afrobeat drummer is shaking his sticks as hard and as brilliantly as ever". The Independent. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  4. Patterson, Ian (24 December 2007). "Steve Reid: Staying in the Rhythms". Allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 22 April 2008.
  5. Reed, Ryan (2012-03-28). "Rocket Juice and the Moon: Rocket Juice and the Moon". Paste Magazine (in Turanci). Retrieved 2020-12-11.
  6. "Tony Allen: An Autobiography of the Master Drummer of Afrobeat". Duke University Press. Archived from the original on 28 February 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2013.

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