Nigerian music legend Tony Allen spoke to Channel24 about what it was like in the studio with Hugh and then going back in to finish their project together.
Tony Oladipo Allen – now known simply as Tony Allen - was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940.
As the world now knows he would eventually go on to perform with some of the greats of music including the inimitable Fela Kuti, who later credited Tony with founding the Afrobeat movement. As I connect to Tony in Paris, via representatives from BMG, there's a knowing pause almost as if he has braced himself for my first question and is ready to answer in mature and weathered voice."The collaboration came about after the first time I met Hugh. The first time we met was in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1984, I think it was. That was while I was working with Fela. Then we said we try and do something together when and if we could.
"When it comes to music I don't think of Nigerian music and American music or British music, I think of music. When you talk about Nigerian music, I don't know specifically know what that is. It is just music.""I do know what you mean if you say local music when people sing in their own language, but it is a border conversation about music in general.""A lot of people are doing the same thing, but there are some who trying something new.
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