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Keeping Afrobeat decolonial in Buenos Aires
One bandleader’s quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.
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Ezequiel Tedesco is the founder of both FAI (Festival de Afrobeat Independiente) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Afrobeat band El Gran Capitán, for which he was a producer, musician and composer from 2013 to 2021. In 2022, he founded a new Afrobeat band called Tengu.
One bandleader’s quest to keep Afrobeat political in Latin America.