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hired by me ok and join the stream today we are joined by a superstar of afro beat femi kuti with me talking about his music his commitment to activism and the inspiration for his latest album i really could be a lot of femi and his band will play some of his best known songs in the studio today and we want to hear your questions and comments join the conversation on twitter facebook and the al-jazeera live stream. femi kuti is one of the leading lights of african music over a forty year career jazz and funk intoxicating effect having several grammy award nominations along the way his music is an inspiration to famous musicians including common and most stuff as well as younger african musicians starting their careers and he strongly committed to progressive causes not least to his work as a goodwill ambassador for the united nations children's fund now femi is touring his tenth album the recently released one people one walt ellis. every kid see. i believe my eyes are you out here on the street and welcome. to a family in kuti kongs that they have an experience that i have dipped int

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come in we can we call just watch the band for free so i'm looking here this is boulder colorado femi kuti in the positive force boulder colorado what is the difference in the show that you did that and the show that you would do to shine are you doing femi light when you're on tour and you do hardcore at the shining but the difference the difference is we have our costumes and we're more professional on top. tragic light hearted yeah but when where we have. we put is like. like an athlete you have to put one hundred percent of the competition starts you are flexible so we put like a thousand percent at the rehearsal when we are on top if we need to make a mistake on stage you hardly hear and we can play around the mistake we can joke about it because we have repeated it so many times so we are going to hear from you give one hundred percent in just a moment the first song on our show today no work no job no money but first let's hear from one of his fans i opened coalescent us this comment about the impact of families at work. because it could. be. very strong my generation. beauty has wo

femi kuti is one of the leading lights of african music over a forty year career he has fused jazz and funk to intoxicating effect gathering several grammy award nominations along the way his music is an inspiration to famous musicians including common and most stuff as well as younger african.