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Tony Allen, Legendary Afrobeat Pioneer, Dies at 79
01.05.2020 - 16:53 / hollywoodreporter.com
Tony Allen, drummer, Fela Kuti collaborator and celebrated innovator of the Afrobeat genre, has died. He was 79.
Allen died in Paris and the cause of death is not known at the time of publication. “We don’t know the exact cause of death,” his manager Eric Trosset told France 24.
“He was in great shape; it was quite sudden. I spoke to him at 1 p.m., then two hours later he was sick and taken to Pompidou hospital where he died.” Born in Nigeria, the self-taught Allen served as the drummer and
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