Meet NOMO, America's premier Afrobeat octet “We have eight people out right now, and we're all in one van with no trailer,” says NOMO bandleader and saxophonist Elliot Bergman.

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Performing with about six singers and dancers in the courageous and passionate musical journey, The Afrobeat band thrilled the audience with a brilliant performance of Fela's music like 'Palava ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79.

In an influential career that spanned decades and continents, Mr. Allen formed a vital early partnership with Fela Kuti that launched the catchy Afrobeat dance music.

JOHANNESBURG — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of an aortic aneurysm, his manager ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of aortic failure, his ...