He was considered one of the world’s best and greatest drummers. Yes, we are talking about Tony Allen. The legendary Nigerian drummer who also co-founded the popular Afrobeat genre breathed his last on Wednesday evening.
He was 79 and died of a heart attack in Paris as revealed by his manager Eric Trosset which also clarifies his death has no link to Coronavirus.
Tony had collaborated with another noted musician Fela Kuti and was a part of the latter’s band Africa ’70. Allen had teamed up with Kuti to compose and record multiple albums most of which were hits among the music lovers.
For the unversed, Fela Kuti died in 1997 but not before stating that there would be no Afrobeat without Tony Allen, a void that will now be felt by everyone