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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 42
Top works
- Comment Tout a Commencé
- Ruth Packard Allen
- Cascade Range
- Fundamentals of Freshwater Fishing
- Third Captain's Log
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Nigeria
- Active from
- 1940-08-12
- Active to
- 2020-04-30
afro-beatafrobeatdrummerfunkjazzpost-bop
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 298,674
- Total plays
- 2,656,846
Tags
afrobeatfunkjazzafricanworld
Tony Allen (born Tony Oladipo Allen in Lagos, Nigeria on 12 August 1940; died 30 April 2020 in Paris) was a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and worked in Paris, France. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Fela Anikulapo Kuti & Africa 70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the primary co-founders of the genre of Afrobeat music. Of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Allen taught himself to play drums by listening to records made by the American ja
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Position
- Shooting Guard
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Family name
- Allen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Place of death
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- England national under-21 association football team
- Position played
- full-back
- Country for sport
- England
- Image
- Tony Allen, Eric Welsh and Colin Gie (cropped) - Tony Allen.jpg
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1939-11-27
- Commons category
- Tony Allen (footballer)
- date of death
- 2022-12-02
- name in native language
- Tony Allen
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