{"id":5219,"date":"2024-04-26T03:36:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T03:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2024-04-26T03:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T03:36:15","slug":"i-define-my-music-genre-as-afrofusion-not-afrobeats-davido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=5219","title":{"rendered":"I define my music genre as Afrofusion not Afrobeats \u2013 Davido"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nigerian superstar, Davido has expressed his desire to rather classify his music as part of an Afrofusion genre rather than Afrobeats.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Fela Kuti was the original pioneer of the music known as afrobeat. However, African music is now referred to as Afrobeats with all African artiste classified under the Afrobeats umbrella irrespective of their music styles.<\/p>\n

Young, Famous and African reality show portrayed my parents in a bad image \u2013 2Baba\u2019s daughter, Isabella<\/a><\/p>\n\n

African artists are classified as Afrobeats if they sing pure R&B and sound like SZA or Summerwalker.<\/p>\n

Even if an African rapper has a Drake-like flow, they are still classified as Afrobeats.<\/p>\n

However, speaking in an interview with Business Untitled Podcast, the \u2018Unavailable\u2019 hitmaker distanced himself from the music genre, Afrobeats.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cThe first place that accepted African music outside Africa was the UK before America later joined. The UK termed African music Afrobeats.\u00a0I don\u2019t get offended when we\u2019ve been categorised as Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be R&B or Afropop. I call my music Afrofusion but I\u2019m not big on \u2018O put Afrofusion on my song.\u2019 I know how long it took for African music to become mainstream,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the past few months, Wizkid, Burna Boy and Fireboy DML have also denounced the genre explicitly stating that they do not belong in the genre.<\/p>\n\n

They described the genre as \u201cmeaningless\u201d to their style of music.<\/p>\n

The post I define my music genre as Afrofusion not Afrobeats \u2013 Davido<\/a> first appeared on 3News<\/a>.<\/p>

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