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Appreciating Tony Allen, Afrobeat Creator Who Has Died At 79

PEOPLE Posted: May 3, 2020 1:00 pm

Allen was a Nigerian drummer who perhaps didn’t invent Afrobeat but certainly popularized it and took it everywhere. “Allen’s swirl of jazz, Yoruba and highlife was unlike anything the world had ever heard: a full-body polyrhythmic workout that would give most drummers sore wrists just thinking of it.” – The Guardian (UK)

PEOPLE Published: 05.01.20

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 05.01.20

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