HAVING just confirmed an appearance on BBC2’s ‘Later with Jools Holland’ next week, Seun Kuti, the youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, will follow it with a show at the Lighthouse, Poole on April 21, performing with late father's former band Egypt 80.

Seun Kuti is an unbelievable force in Nigerian Music – having inherited his father Fela Kuti’s band Egypt 80 he is now the crowned king of Afrobeat.

Seun’s father Fela was the biggest 20th century star of African music, but for some, Seun now outshines him.

His music, dance, politics and funky Yoruba Afrobeat never let tradition down and Seun plays with such dynamism, precision and energy that everyone lucky enough to have seen his father’s show live, is now left in awe of his son Seun. Fela’s archetypal sound was a big band fusion of traditional rhythms and music fused with the boldest brass that brought funk, jazz and a rich sense of black urban America.

He inspired a generation of musicians, and, like Bob Marley, was a heady mix of social consciousness, struggling with the post colonial powers.

He invented Afrobeat – a dance music where tracks last the length of albums and sets last the entire night.

His character, arfocentricism and the sheer power and majesty of his music has inspired a recent successful Broadway musical now premiering in London this year at our own National Theatre.

At Lighthouse Seun will present new music from his forthcoming album, recorded in Brazil, mixed in London, and scheduled for release in spring 2011.