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I define my music genre as Afrofusion not Afrobeats – Davido

April 25, 2024

Nigerian superstar, Davido has expressed his desire to rather classify his music as part of an Afrofusion genre rather than Afrobeats.

Fela Kuti was the original pioneer of the music known as afrobeat. However, African music is now referred to as Afrobeats with all African artiste classified under the Afrobeats umbrella irrespective of their music styles.

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</ iframe></p> <div id="div-gpt-ad-1708618951344-0" style="height:250px; width:300px;"> <script> googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-1708618951344-0"); }); </script> </div> <p>African artists are classified as Afrobeats if they sing pure R&B and sound like SZA or Summerwalker.</p> <p>Even if an African rapper has a Drake-like flow, they are still classified as Afrobeats.</p> <p>However, speaking in an interview with Business Untitled Podcast, the ‘Unavailable’ hitmaker distanced himself from the music genre, Afrobeats.</p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" 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: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6L6uiWA-HE/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <p> </p> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"></div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"></div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"></div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"></div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"></div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"></div> </div> <p> </p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6L6uiWA-HE/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Business Untitled (@businessuntitled)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><script src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js" async=""></script> “The first place that accepted African music outside Africa was the UK before America later joined. The UK termed African music Afrobeats. I don’t get offended when we’ve been categorised as Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre.</p> <p>“It could be R&B or Afropop. I call my music Afrofusion but I’m not big on ‘O put Afrofusion on my song.’ I know how long it took for African music to become mainstream,” he said.</p> <p>In the past few months, Wizkid, Burna Boy and Fireboy DML have also denounced the genre explicitly stating that they do not belong in the genre.</p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" alt="" width="679" height="580" data-src="https://uploads.files.3news.com/2024/04/Wizkid-Afrobeats.png" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-372523 lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-372523" src="https://uploads.files.3news.com/2024/04/Wizkid-Afrobeats.png" alt="" width="679" height="580" /></noscript></p> <p>They described the genre as “meaningless” to their style of music.</p> </div> <footer> <div class="td-post-source-tags"> </div> <div class="td-post-sharing-bottom"><div class="td-post-sharing-classic"><iframe title="bottomFacebookLike" frameBorder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:auto; height:21px; background-color:transparent;" data-src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https://onuaonline.com/i-define-my-music-genre-as-afrofusion-not-afrobeats-davido/&layout=button_count&show_faces=false&width=105&action=like&colorscheme=light&height=21" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==">

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