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Music Appreciation

ornotna

(10,800 posts) Fri May 1, 2020, 09:19 PM May 2020

Tony Allen, Afrobeat's Foundational Drummer, Has Died At Age 79

Fela Kuti's drummer has left us.

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Tony Allen, Afrobeat's Foundational Drummer, Has Died At Age 79 (Original Post) ornotna May 2020 OP

I just found this out... sweetloukillbot May 2020 #1

sweetloukillbot

(11,010 posts)

1. I just found this out...

Reply to ornotna (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 12:48 AM

May 2020

So many great musicians in the past couple weeks...
Little Richard
Betty Wright
Millie Smalls
Florian Schneider
Dave Greenfield
Sweet Pea Atkinson
and now I find out Tony Allen is gone as well.
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