{"id":235506,"date":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/life-was-tough-for-fela-he-could-barely-feed-his-family-femi-kuti\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:33:07","slug":"life-was-tough-for-fela-he-could-barely-feed-his-family-femi-kuti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/life-was-tough-for-fela-he-could-barely-feed-his-family-femi-kuti\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Was Tough For Fela, He Could Barely Feed His Family \u2013 Femi Kuti"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\n

Afrobeats singer, Femi Kuti<\/a> has shared that his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, faced poverty even when his music was already gaining attention.<\/h2>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that in an interview with the Afropolitan, Femi recalled that during the period when Fela\u2019s first major hit, Jeun Ko Ku, was widely played, the family still struggled to afford basic needs.<\/p>\n

The Grammy-nominated artiste said the family lived on Agege Motor Road before the Kalakuta Republic era, and despite Fela\u2019s rising fame, life at home was very difficult.<\/p>\n

\n<\/a><\/div>\n

He explained that his father could not provide enough food for his children at the time.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cFela was very poor. He couldn\u2019t even afford food for us his kids. I mean, really really poor. Then we were living at No. 14A Agege Motor Road, this was all before Kalakuta.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery music story was playing Fela\u2019s first Afrobeats hit \u2018Jeun Ko Ku.\u2019 I think he too was surprised at the reception he got.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In other news, Femi Kuti has shared the challenges<\/strong> he faced in building his own identity in music.<\/p>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that the singer, while speaking on the Afropolitan Podcast, revealed that from an early age, people constantly compared him to his father, legendary Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and expected him to follow in Fela\u2019s footsteps.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n\n

\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innnovations [abiaradios@gmail.com]. [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afrobeats singer, Femi Kuti has shared that his late father, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, faced poverty even when his music was already gaining attention. Abia Radio News reports that in an interview with the Afropolitan, Femi recalled that during the period when Fela\u2019s first major hit, Jeun Ko Ku, was widely played, the family still struggled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":235378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1900],"class_list":["post-235506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-femi-kuti"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2140320784femikutiB1-1000x600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}