Grammys Honour Afrobeat Founder Fela Kuti With Lifetime Achievement Award

Thenews_chronicle | 31-01-2026 12:43am |

The Recording Academy has announced that Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti will posthumously receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, making him the first African artist to earn the honour. The award, which will be presented during the Grammy Special Merit Awards in Los Angeles, comes nearly 29 years after Fela’s death in 1997 at

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