'Tony Oladipo Allen' Fela’s Drummer Dies Age 79

Songwriter, Tony Oladipo Allen, who was also Fela’s Drummer is dead.


Allen was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940 passed on, Wednesday evening in Paris after suffering a heart attack.


Allen stayed in Paris, worked with Fela Kuti’s band Africa ’70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat music and also a composer.


Tony’s manager, Eric Trosset, revealed that Allen took ill in the afternoon and was taken to the Hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, where he died.
















Tony and Fela recorded more than 30 albums together before splitting apart because of money, credits and royalties disputes.