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Auditions blog: Fela Kuti was Obasanjo's harshest critics until his death, with songs calling him a fraud and insulting "his big fat stomach He has also continued with his father's social criticism " Nigeria Chief Voices Hope for Kuti Grammy Feb 22, 11:54 AM EST SINGAPORE (AP) â€â€? Nigeria's president put aside decades of bad blood Saturday, saying he prays that one of his most vocal critics, world music star Femi Kuti, wins a Grammy AIDS campaign ambassador after the virus killed his father in 1997 The raid was aimed at silencing Kuti's father, a harsh critic of the military junta, but Kuti's grandmother suffered injuries that eventually led to her death The president described Kuti's music as "wonderful" despite being targeted in a song called "Traitors of Africa" on the nominated album President Olusegun Obasanjo said he hopes Kuti, whose album "Fight to Win" is nominated in the best world album category, leaves Sunday's ceremony with an award N Kuti, son of late pop star Fela Kuti, holds Obasanjo responsible for the death of his grandmother after the Nigerian leader, while military ruler in the late 1970s, ordered an army raid on his family's home "Any Nigerian who is nominated for any honor, I will pray that he should win," Obasanjo said in Singapore on his way to the Non-Aligned Movement summit in Kuala Lumpur Obasanjo, now president after winning 1999 elections that ended 16 years of military rule, denied ordering the raid at a human rights inquiry in 2001 Femi Kuti has become the flagbearer for Afrobeat, a musical genre invented by his father that fuses jazz, funk and traditional Nigerian music He became a U |
