GRAMMY-nominated artist, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has described his type of music as Afrofusion and not Afrobeat.
Davido speaking on the latest edition of the Business Untitled Podcast revealed that his genre of music is Afrofusion, although people refer to it as Afrobeat but he isn’t bothered about it.
Giving a brief history of Afrobeat, Davido said: “The first place that accepted African music outside Africa is the UK before America later join. The UK termed African music Afrobeats.
“Afrobeat is a sound that was originally pioneered by Fela Kuti. But now all African songs are termed Afrobeats. If an African artiste sings pure R&B, sounding like SZA, Summerwalker, they put them under Afrobeats. If an African rapper rapping like Drake, they still put them under Afrobeats.
“I don’t get offended when we’ve been categorised as Afrobeats. I mean, we need a genre. 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.”
Recall that Wizkid, Burna Boy, and Fireboy also recently ditched the “Afrobeat” genre.
