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Rolling Stone Menu Bootsy Collins on the Genius of Fela Kuti: ‘What He Brought Was Just So Powerful’ The bass legend recalls witnessing the live brilliance of the Afrobeat pioneer, and explains why Kuti’s “undercurrent funk” should earn him a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame By Laurent Rebours/AP; Rebecca Sapp/WireImage In “Viva Nigeria,” one of Fela Kuti’s earliest 45s, the Afrobeat pioneer proclaims, “Men are born, kings are made.” Kuti, who was born a man in 1938 and died a king of music in ’97, transformed his home country and the world at large into something more inclusive and compassionate through driving, dynamic drums, big, funky horns, and scabrous lyrics that skewered the violent military junta controlling Nigeria. He had studied music in London, where he played piano in jazz, R&B, and rock groups creating a tight bond with Cream’s Ginger Baker and toured the United States by the time he returned to Lagos in 1970.

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