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My music is Afrofusion, not Afrobeats – Burna Boy

Victor Amadu by Victor Amadu
July 5, 2022
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My music is Afrofusion, not Afrobeats – Burna Boy
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Multiple award winning Nigerian singer, Burna Boy, has asserted that his music cannot be classified as Afrobeats but Afrofusion.

Burna Boy emphasized that not all music from Africa is Afrobeats during an interview with the Million Dollar Worth of Game podcast presenters that was aired on Sunday. He asserted that there are other sounds produced on the continent.

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He continued by saying that his style of music should be classified as Afrofusion and pointed out that it is unjust to the artists to simply refer to songs from Africa as Afrobeats.

Expressing his mind, Burna Boy said, “For me, it’s like the same way you’re going to say NAS is an R&B singer because he’s from America or Whitney Houston was a rapper because rap is the most popping thing now.

“I can’t accept that because I’m not a rapper. So now in Africa when you talk about music, the first thing they say is Afrobeats. Afrobeat is a legend called Fela Kuti.

“Years went by and Nigerian musicians started dropping music that was becoming something. So they needed to call it something to be able to identify with it.

Read: Burna Boy unveils new album titled “Love Damini” — features A-list Grammy nominees and winners

“Somehow they just said Afrobeats and added an s. I don’t know what sense that made but that’s what happened. Somewhere along the line, all the music that comes from Africa just writes Afrobeats.

“We have Highlife, Juju music, Fuji music, South African Kwaeto music, Amapiano, Afropop, we have all types of genres in Africa. To be really sincere, for you to just call everything Afrobeats kind of does a disservice to the artistes.

“For me, when I started the Afrofusion thing, it was like my music was not the same with anything that was out. It was like everybody else kind of sounded the same.”

My music is Afrofusion, not Afrobeats – Burna Boy
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Revealing how he wanted something he could identify himself with, Burna Boy said: “It was one kind of move and for me, there was nothing I could identify myself with. So I just decided that I’ll call it Afrofusion because it’s a fusion of everything. The Afro-Africaness is the thing that covers it, it’s the bottle that holds the whole drink. That is why I always make sure that everybody knows this is what I do, it’s Afrofusion.”

Check Also: The Rise of Afrobeats: From West Africa to The Diaspora 1950-2010

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