Drummer Tony Allen, driver of Afrobeat sound, dies at 79 | ||
Friday, 1 May 2020 ()
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Pioneering drummer Tony Allen, the driver of the Afrobeat sound, has died in Paris at age 79. Allen died Thursday night at the Pompidou Hospital of aortic failure, his manager Eric Trosset confirmed to The Associated Press. In an influential career that spanned decades and continents, Allen started drumming in Nigeria’s Lagos […] |