Fela Kuti becomes first African to get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award
Fela Kuti posthumously received the first Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award ever given to an African, marking belated establishment recognition of the anti-establishment musician.
He's the first African musician to get a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Fela Kuti became the first African musician awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for transformative Afrobeat music and political artistic influence.