{"id":71662,"date":"2023-05-29T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/29\/3-times-burna-boy-sampled-fela-kutis-sorrow-tears-and-blood\/"},"modified":"2023-05-29T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T16:36:29","slug":"3-times-burna-boy-sampled-fela-kutis-sorrow-tears-and-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/29\/3-times-burna-boy-sampled-fela-kutis-sorrow-tears-and-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"3 times Burna Boy sampled Fela Kuti\u2019s \u2018Sorrow, Tears and Blood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Fela-influences-Burna-Boy-e1685374127446.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Burna Boy\u2019s longstanding admiration for the legendary Fela Kuti is no more a secret. It is safe to say that, Burna Boy would\u2019ve easily been Fela\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, had the latter been alive.<\/p>\n<p>Burna Boy\u2019s music style, lyricism, stage performances, Afrocentric influence and more, are proof that he draws lots of inspiration from Nigerian legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti.<\/p>\n<p>The feature below by Joy News\u2019 Joojo Cobbinah and Lois Shola Adeyemi shows three times Burna Boy sampled Fela Kuti\u2019s \u2018Sorrow, Tears and Blood\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Voiceover by Joy FM\u2019s Kofi Hayford and edited by James Abbey of Joy News.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/Cs1QIdbABDN\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; overflow:hidden;margin:20px auto; width:100%; min-height:280px;\">\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burna Boy\u2019s longstanding admiration for the legendary Fela Kuti is no more a secret. It is safe to say that, Burna Boy would\u2019ve easily been Fela\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9, had the latter been alive. Burna Boy\u2019s music style, lyricism, stage performances, Afrocentric influence and more, are proof that he draws lots of inspiration from Nigerian legend Fela [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>3 times Burna Boy sampled Fela Kuti\u2019s \u2018Sorrow, Tears and Blood\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/05\/29\/3-times-burna-boy-sampled-fela-kutis-sorrow-tears-and-blood\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 times Burna Boy sampled Fela Kuti\u2019s \u2018Sorrow, Tears and Blood\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Burna Boy\u2019s longstanding admiration for the legendary Fela Kuti is no more a secret. 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