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Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky
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Tony Allen: Inventor of Afrobeat was both technically remarkable and irresistibly funky
Drummer Tony Allen helped establish Afrobeat as a politically charged, socially conscious, eminently danceable musical force.