With the release of his sixth album, “Fuji,” on Friday, Nigerian musician Adekunle Gold pays homage to his homeland’s traditional sounds, marking a return to his roots. “That sound serves as Lagos’s theme music.” It is present everywhere. Afrobeats and everything else we hear today were born out of that sound,” Gold told AFP in Paris. The Indigenous Yoruba community, one of the biggest ethnic groupings in West Africa, serves as an inspiration for the Afropop icon, who is descended from the Kosoko royal line. The 38-year-old singer described it…
Adekunle Gold Embraces Nigerian Roots in New Album, ‘Fuji’
